Wireless card only woks on Lan, does not go to internet.

[motero99]

I have followed the forum discussions on wireless cards. I have a 2366-41U running XP. I installed a mini PCI card from Global Sun Technology (bought it on EBAY). The card is based on the Atheros 5121A chipset. I used the CD menioned in this forum to remove the 1802 and 01C9errors. No instructions came with the card, and the diagram on the Lenovo manual showed a different connector type, so I am not sure I connected the antenna wires correctly. The white MAIN is on the iner connector and the black AUX is on the outer connector. I have tried various drivers, currently running 5.0.0.107, which was trhe latest on the download site. I get a signal strenght of excellent and connection at 108 Gbps. I can see all of the computers on my workgroup and access mapped drives on the other computers. The problem is I cannot access the internet on most tries. ( I can access if I use the hard wired connection). Looking at the properties of the wireless connection, I can see a low ratio of receives compared to sends, sometimes as high as 8 sends for every receive. In my other wired connections and two wireless computers at home, the ratio is closer to 1 to 1. I think this low number of receives is the cause of my connectivity problem. I have used the Microsoft Wireless connection, the Access Connections client and the Atheros client at differnt times. I get the same result. About the only way I can make a wireless connection is to first go to a site via the sired connection, then after disconnecting that , I can go back to that site with the wireless connection. What response I get is very slow, and no doubt due to the high ratio of sends to receives. When I look at the Atheros client, which is the only place I have been able to find statistics, I see this after being up for a few minutes and trying to conncet to the internet: Frames Transmitted ok 477 ACK Frames 477; Frames received ok 0, Frames received with errors 74, CRC errors 135 - I also cannot connect to the internet at this point. If I connect to the local lan, There is about a 3/1 ratio of frames with errors to frames received ok. The firewall is turned off, so that is not the issue. Any ideas wht the proble might be?

[motero99]

It turns out the problem was a series of bad drivers. I found an old HP wireless driver and it works great now.