Netstumbler and Buffalo cards

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As there's presumably some people on the list now, I'll start with that 
old chestnut.

Netstumbler and Buffalo LIIGP cards.

I've searched the forum system and while I've found lots of useful posts 
it still doesn't really help.

I'm using Win ME. The latest Buffalo drivers almost work with 
Netstumbler. The problem I've got is that the drivers try to associate 
during scanning. If they succeed then Stumbling stops. The 
"Auto-Configure" switch doesn't seem to do anything. I can usually kick 
start stumbling again by using the Buffalo client manager to do an FS 
search. It then runs until the next time the card auto-associates. I've 
tried every combination of settings I can find and am still puzzled by 
some hardware driver advanced settings, "Roaming area" and "Hidden 
Station" These don't appear to do anything.

Previously, I'd tried hacking Agere drivers so that they would load and 
find the Buffalo hardware key. This almost seemed to work but the Agere 
CM wouldn't play complaining about a .CPL failure whenever you tried to 
change a profile. This made them useless for normal connections although 
Netstumbler worked. I've recently tried again, and now the CM mostly 
plays, Netstumbler works but I'm now getting serious TCP errors from 
Windows where it looks like Windows can't tell that the card is offline 
(with no signal) and several TCP based apps alternate between 
connection/no connection despite a working ethernet card in the same 
machine. Regardless of Agere CM settings, the card never successfully 
associates with an AP. So another failure then.

I suspect that my problems are Win ME/98 related and it may well be 
possible to make all this work with XP or 2000.

Some of the posts suggest that even with agere/avaya/proxim/lucent 
hardware, auto-configure doesn't work. So what is it supposed to do?

So has anyone managed to get Buffalo cards to work on Win ME where they 
can both run Netstumbler successfully *and* use the card for normal WLAN 
connections?

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