LInksys WRT54GL drops all connections...then vanishes.

[UnixSkunk]

Hi, all. I have a Linksys WRT54GL, and every so often the network connection to everyone in the office will drop. The WAP will vanish. We can not use the "Repair" function to re-acquire the connection. The Macintosh laptops and Windows laptops both experience this same problem(So its not Windows). The windows clients will all lose their IP address, etc.
The WAP will no longer be visible on our network.
This can be easily fixxed by pulling the power to reboot the WAP, but until this is done, we have no wireless access.
Laptop -> WAP -> Cisco Switch -> Router -> Provider.
We had this same occurrance with a WAP from another manufacturer as well, which is why we purchased the WRT54GL. We thought the WAP might have been going bad. ANy suggestions would be highly appreciated.


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[UnixSkunk]

Just to let everyone know, we solved this problem. We started up Netstumbler, and checked what WAPs were on which channels in our local area. We moved our WET54GL to a channel that didnt have WAPs. We no longer drop packets, and the WAP works fine.


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