PCI WIFI cards with IRQ issues

[proaudioguy]

I have a specific A31 that will seemingly install either of 2 different WIFI cards (internal), but after a few days or hours, it stops working and has an error 10 in device manager (Device Cannot Start). At reboot the computer says there is a conflict press F1 for setup. The PCI IRQs are set to 11. I have tried to set them to auto, and each to a different number. This is of course just random since I have no idea what I'm doing. How can I go about finding the cause of this problem and eliminate it? Removing the card makes it go away but I am sick of having a PCMCIA card sticking out the side when I have 2 working PCI cards sitting here. My other A31 doesn't appear to have these problems. Neither of these cards are OEM for IBM, but I've never had an 1802 error.

[rkawakami]

Exactly what internal MiniPCI WiFi cards are you using? If they are entirely different models/brands, then that seems to point to a motherboard or OS issue.

Several other questions come to mind:

- any BIOS revision differences between the two A31s?
- has this just started happening?
- have you tried swapping the hard drives between the two systems and see if the problem follows?

[proaudioguy]

Exactly what internal MiniPCI WiFi cards are you using? If they are entirely different models/brands, then that seems to point to a motherboard or OS issue.

Several other questions come to mind:

- any BIOS revision differences between the two A31s?
- has this just started happening?
- have you tried swapping the hard drives between the two systems and see if the problem follows?

The problem doesn't follow the hard drive. One is a broadcom card and the other is out of a Linksys print server (Atheros, uses WG511 drivers). Both have the latest BIOS. One is a 16meg board and the other is a 32meg board. It had always happened with the Broadcom card, so I grabbed the other card which has been happily working for over a year in another system. I'm away from home so I can't look at anything else.