wireless card or rounter occasionally doesn't work

Most of the time, my wireless connection works just fine, but every once in a while,

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dhcpcd wlan0

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gets no response from the router. The only solution seems to be to boot up windows, get it running with the Linksys software, reboot, and start up linux again. Not a good solution if I ever want to kick Bill Gates off my machine forever!

Anyone seen this or know how to troubleshoot it further? Reboots of linux don't work, rerunning

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modprobe -v ndiswrapper; iwconfig wlan0 essid "RouterName"; dhcpcd -d -t 10 wlan0

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also doesn't work.

Here is, I believe, all the relevant information on my system:

I set things up exactly as outlined in the tutorial on this site (http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...rk-linux.html).

Hardware:
Linksys WMP54GS wireless card
Westell A90-327W15-06 DSL modem/router

Software:
FC4 on an old i686

Config:

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$ /sbin/modprobe -l | grep ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
$ /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
wmp54gsa        driver present, hardware present

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/var/log/dhcpcd.log when it doesn't work:

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Feb  4 22:29:26 chupa dhcpcd[2230]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.47
Feb  4 22:29:36 chupa dhcpcd[2230]: timed out waiting for DHCP_ACK response
Feb  4 22:29:36 chupa dhcpcd[2230]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER
Feb  4 22:29:46 chupa dhcpcd[2230]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

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/var/log/dhcpcd.log when it does work:

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Feb  5 07:18:40 chupa dhcpcd[2219]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST for 192.168.1.47
Feb  5 07:18:41 chupa dhcpcd[2219]: dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=2147483647 in DHCP server response.
Feb  5 07:18:41 chupa dhcpcd[2219]: dhcpT1value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 1073741823 sec
Feb  5 07:18:41 chupa dhcpcd[2219]: dhcpT2value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 1879048191 sec
Feb  5 07:18:41 chupa dhcpcd[2219]: DHCP_ACK received from  (192.168.1.1)

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