R52 with limited or low signal

[schen]

My wife's R52 has recently started showing weird wireless symptoms such as periodically unable to connect or showing the dreaded "limited or no signal" message. I tried a number of things including moving from AC to the Windows Built-In utility. It was better, but now has started giving problems again. The card is the Intel A/B/G card. I don't know if it's related, but it seems to have started around the time of this latest round of MS Updates last week.

My T42 with the old Atheros AR5001X card though has been rock solid (while sitting in the same room at the same time). Any thoughts?

[ajkula66]

I know I'm going to cause sticks and stones being thrown at me, but...just dump the Intel and install another Atheros....

My $0.02 only...

[schen]

I know I'm going to cause sticks and stones being thrown at me, but...just dump the Intel and install another Atheros....

My $0.02 only...

I'd be a lot less inclined to throw stones if I had a spare Atheros to throw in it! That's probably the best course though. In any case, it's a weird condition.

[ajkula66]

I don't know, but the Panasonic in my signature which has Intel 2915ABG has been giving me more and more grief in the wireless area as the updates for W7 RC1 that I'm running on it were piling up...all my other machines sport Atheros cards in some shape or form and have been great (knock wood) in a variety of operating systems that I'm running on them...

If I run into an Atheros card within the next few days I'll drop you a PM.

[sjthinkpader]

Looks like the latest driver update was in April this year. Review this summary and see if you have the latest.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... selected=5

[schen]

Ran the update, but it didn't help. I actually ran it on both my X41 and the R52. The X41 hasn't developed a problem, but the R52 hasn't gotten any better, so I'll probably have to pull that adapter.

I came home from a short business trip to find the wife in a foul mood at her machine! Not a good situation!

[schen]

An update to this issue. I ended up resolving it with a restore from the factory disk set. I've had this problem one other time on a different machine where the WiFi stopped working after a series of MS updates. Then it was resolved when the machine was put through a Windows rebuild.

Even more annoying, I had an experience back in the W2K (I think) days where some updates broke something (don't remember what), and more updates later that week fixed it!

At this point, I'm just happy that I didn't have to buy another MPCI wireless card for that machine since it's so picky and wouldn't take the No-1801 error fix!