I went over to Blaine Steele’s house to help him with a wireless router issue. Everything worked fine if wired through the router, but intermittent problems through wireless connection. Ping responses were up and down, sometimes wouldn’t connect to AP, other times it would and then couldn’t get a PING response from the default GW.
When PINGING 192.168.1.1 I would get “Hardware Error” as a response. I searched online for a while without finding any solutions.
Here is the solution:
The channel that the wireless access point was operating on was getting interference from some other device in the vicinity. Just try different channels on the wireless router until the problem clears.