Which Intel LAN driver?

[albo]

Hi Folks,

I've been getting BSOD's when trying to sleep my T410 (ugh), and the minidump seems to be pointing to the wifi driver. I have an intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 AGN in my machine, and it currently has driver version 15.2.0.19 installed. The intel lan drivers on lenovo's website have always confused the sh*t out of me, as there are a bunch of combinations of "a", "b", "g" and "n" drivers in different packages. I'm never sure which to install.

There's this one (version 14.03.0000): http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... w217ww.exe
And this one (version 15.02.0000.1258, which i *think* i have installed): http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... w213ww.exe
And finally this one (version 13.04.0000): http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... ws21ww.exe

I have no idea why all three show up as current. Is version 15 the one I should be installing? Or, if I'm getting BSOD's, perhaps I should try version 14? Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Win 7 Pro x64 SP1
T410 2516-CTO

[dr_st]

Read the readmes on the site. They should explain which adapters each driver is for.

[albo]

"should" being the operative word. The readme's for all three drivers specify "Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300".

[richk]

I would first make sure I had the latest power manager. Then, if that didn't correct things, I would go to the intel site. Under support, I would let it run the thing that can scan for the latest intel drivers. If that didn't work, I would try version 14.

[albo]

thanks rich. so - you would suggest installing drivers direct from intel? i'm always jumpy about doing that, as i'm never sure how it will interact with all the built-in lenovo tools.

i downgraded to version 14, and haven't had any hang-while-sleeping crashes since.