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Airport starts and stop every 5 seconds [discussions.info.apple.com]

I have two computers with wireless connections on my home network: one is an old Mac OS 9 computer, and I have a new Powerbook G4.

The old Mac connects fine to our Linksys wireless connection -- the new Powerbook does not get a reliable connection.

I downloaded Airport Grapher, and it shows the connection regularly going to 0% every five seconds, very regularly. so regular it almost looks like a heartbeat, although there are exceptions where it goes out for longer. But it never stays on longer than 4 second.

The system log is full of messages like this:

Feb 29 12:16:15 localhost kernel: AirPort: Link UP: "emerson" - 000625665b62 - chan 11
Feb 29 12:16:20 localhost kernel: AirPort: Link DOWN
Feb 29 12:16:20 localhost kernel: AirPort: Link UP: "emerson" - 000625665b62 - chan 11
Feb 29 12:16:22 localhost kernel: AirPort: Link DOWN

It looks like it must be some configuration thing on my Powerbook, but I can't figure out what it could be. Any ideas?

03:28 PM, 29 Feb 2004 by Jade Rubick Permalink | Comments (1)

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