R60 Vista crashes with wireless in one place, everytime!

[tommy d]

I have an R60 and everytime I connect to the wireless network at school, it crashes without BSOD. It goes like this: connects just fine, browses for a page or two then bam, Core 1 100% open Vista network manager then bam, core 2 100% and lockup. If I leave the network connected but don't browse no problem. Firefox and IE both act the same way. I think I can get it to crash just by fiddling with Vista network manager - not sure. The only I can reliably use my computer is without the network switched on.

I have uninstalled Access Connections, ATI drivers and even switched LAN cards from Lenovo ABGN to Intel ABG, as available for R60 as an option.

The computer is solid in every other environment and wireless connectivity is fast and solid with the Intel. The Atheros ABGN was pretty good and did work for even N networks but was a little flaky sometimes.

Any ideas? Should I dumb down my wireless NIC and if so which parameters?

My other option is to just go back to XP but I am sooooo close to make Vista work perfectly.

Thanks in advance!

[phool@round]

Have you taken a gander at the Event Log? That should give you some sort of clue to what is locking up both pumps. I'd think it's software over hardware at this point.

[tommy d]

log was no help. No crash dump either. I fixed it using Cisco Aeronet350 PCMCIA when I'm at law school. Like I said, it only messes up in one place. As far as I can tell, I'm the only person on the planet who has this problem so I went for a HW fix and got lucky on the second try. Thanks for the reply.