R50e - My Wireless Hell - Help

[rscosworth]

Guys,

Having major problems with my R50e's wireless.

It started off with an intermittant connection, would not reconnect to my router after standby or when logging on as a different user.

It has an intel card 2200BG, i have tried the old drivers, and the new drivers - 8.1.0.28, 9.0.4.8 and 9.0.4.13

I have tried the microsoft xp wireless configuration, access connections 3.30 and 4.12.

Since reloading the windows sofware (both using recovery cd's and my own OEM windows xp) i get a connection which drops every 3-4 seconds and then reconnects to the router.

The router is a Belkin Pre-N which works flawlessly with my Thinkpad t42 with Atheros card in it.....

I have put the 2200BG card into my T42 and it detects the card but cannot power on/off the card or find any wireless networks, i put the Atheros out of the T42 into the R50e but i get an 1802, will use the workaround later and see what the outcome is....

Anyone got any suggestions or do we think the cards broke?

Cheers

[SeanM]

Have you updated the firmware on your wireless router?

[tselling]

You can check some of the advanced options on the card. Go to properties on the card and configure-> advanced. My card has Roaming Agressiveness and Power Management. I turned the roaming agressiveness to lowest and Power Management to highest.

[ThinkPad R]

Have you checked other threads about this same issue?

Many people including myself have experienced this issue.


One of the reasons I assume why you are facing this is because you have a bad router with bad security (yes, routers do have security features inside them).


Anyways, a good solution is to go to the properties on My Computer

2) go to hardware tab

3) go to device manager

4) locate your Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200 3B Mini PCI adapter under Network adapters

5) disable it (not uninstall)

6) enable it.

[rscosworth]

guys

thanks for all your input

it was eventually resolved by changing my psk to 63 digits instead of 62 - very very bizarre......

clean reload with standard drivers and 62 key wouldnt work
clean reload with standard drivers and 63 key would work great

very strange.....