the joys of wireless networking

[MattJ]

wondering if anyone can help?

I'm using a netgear wireless router on my lan to enable broadband access all over the building, as it happens I've had no problems what so ever with this or my netgear adapters, until...
I tried to get a mac with an airport card onto the network, and this machine just keeps losing the connection and is then unable to find the network, which I can still see on a pc.
So I guess the question is, is it just that macs and their airport card are evil, or am I just being thick.

Please help its driving me insane.

[BipolarBill]

There are 3 different wireless standards - A, B and G. Does the Airport match up?

[Midknyte]

did you set the SSID properly? I figure that the netgear adapters would use the same default SSID as the WAP, so you wouldn't have a problem there.

[kwebb]

Well, you inferred at least that the MAC is associating to the AP at some point, just not keeping it, then it loses the ability to see if so that pretty much rules out a SSID or a standard conflict. Might still be a SSID issue though. You probably have SSID broadcast turned on but manually assigning it on the client MAC might help. What about your signal strength and quality if you have a utility that tells that? What does that say?

[MattJ]

Thanks for the help guys, all seems to be fine now, it must have been something I was doing wrong. I setup yet another configuration making sure that I was putting in exactly the right details and then tried it again and it has been working all weekend with no problems (yet!).
Having said that I still maintain that Macs are evil.