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August 17th, 2006 14:00
Dell TrueMobile 1170 Access Point Problems
My school currently uses a bunch of Dell True Mobile 1170 Access Points throughout the school in order for students and teachers to connect to the network and therefore, the Internet. However, we are having a few issues. We still have the True Mobile CD which contains the User's Guide, TFTP, Firmware and a program called Scan Tool. At the moment, we only have one wireless access point up. You may call this crazy, but whenever we set up another access point about 200 feet away. When we switch them both on, it appears that they conflict with each other and low the signal strength dramatically. If it is of any relevance, one of the access points is connected to a Linksys 10/100 5-Port switch. I believe the natural thing to do here would be to go into the Wireless Access Point setup and change the access channels, so they stop conflicting with each other. Here the problem lies. Using Scan Tool, one could easily find the MAC Address, System Name, IP Address, Uptime and System Description…if it worked.
Using both a standard CAT-5 and stranded patch cable, we connected one end into one of our laptops and another end into the 10/100 Base T jack. At the moment, there is another cable plugged in there which goes to the “1” jack on the switch. Additionally, the uplink cable on the switch is going to a BayStack 450-24T switch, plugged into the “1” port, verified as working. For now, back to the problem at hand. I apologize for the lengthy detail but I thought the more detail I put into this post, the quicker it would be solved. When one hooks a cross-over or patch cable into the 10/100 Base T jack on the 1170 access point, we attempt to run Scan Tool, but it finds nothing. This is pretty much our problem. How could we get Scan Tool working to find the IP address of the access point and then change the channel so the points would stop conflicting with each other? If anyone needs any further detail, please, feel free to ask.
I thought it would also be worth mentioning that one access point uses an 1170 PCMCIA card whilst the other uses a 1150 PCMCIA card. Could this be causing further conflict? However, I checked the 1170 Access Point manual and it states that the cards are compatible.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Matt Wheeler.
Using both a standard CAT-5 and stranded patch cable, we connected one end into one of our laptops and another end into the 10/100 Base T jack. At the moment, there is another cable plugged in there which goes to the “1” jack on the switch. Additionally, the uplink cable on the switch is going to a BayStack 450-24T switch, plugged into the “1” port, verified as working. For now, back to the problem at hand. I apologize for the lengthy detail but I thought the more detail I put into this post, the quicker it would be solved. When one hooks a cross-over or patch cable into the 10/100 Base T jack on the 1170 access point, we attempt to run Scan Tool, but it finds nothing. This is pretty much our problem. How could we get Scan Tool working to find the IP address of the access point and then change the channel so the points would stop conflicting with each other? If anyone needs any further detail, please, feel free to ask.
I thought it would also be worth mentioning that one access point uses an 1170 PCMCIA card whilst the other uses a 1150 PCMCIA card. Could this be causing further conflict? However, I checked the 1170 Access Point manual and it states that the cards are compatible.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Matt Wheeler.
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