More network worries

[ffutures]

I'm beginning to think that the MiniNote wireless card is causing the network problems. I seem to be getting a modem and/or router crash every time it is switched on - this has now happened with two, possibly three routers (I think this may have happened when I tried it at work, though everyone thought at the time that it was just a crap WiFi point).

Is this even possible? If so, what the hell do I do about it?

Comments

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what they mean by "MAC address request", but I can see how spamming an access point with packets with made-up MAC addresses could fill up some tables and DoS it. However, I can't really see how something could do that by accident and ever get a working net connection at all.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

I've just arranged to have it returned under warranty anyway - nobody else seems to be having this problem so I suspect it's a hardware fault, and I really can't spend the rest of my life messing around with it.