Barb Bowman [MVP-Windows]
April 4th 03, 12:09 PM
I have an Evo 600 and 610 here. (and several thinkpads) I have 2 draft G
cards from DLink here, one based on the Prism chipset and one based on the
Atheros. I have a DLink 624 draft G router. I do not see these problems
here. I also have a, b and a/b gear here and do not see problems on the
Evos. I don't know what else is on your machine, but it seems like it may be
something in your environment or settings. I'd start by turning off any
power management settings to the pccard etc.
cr wrote:
> I put a Linksys 802.11g draft card into a Compaq Evo600 and found that
> it failed to find the Linksys WRT54G in virtually identical physical
> environment and software conditions where a Thinkpad worked fine. The
> Evo was not yet updated to sp1 so i did that as well as every other
> wireless related update in the list of available options...yet the
> problem remains.
>
> I did some searching, and it appears other people with different Evo
> models, the 620, and 800, as well as wireless cards from D-Link and
> Orinoco in addition to linksys all have run across the same problem.
> You can add the SSID to the list of preferred nets, but it fails to
> see it as an available network, even if the red X goes away on the
> network's icon in the lower pane. Generally in my case i can keep
> hitting 'refresh' roughly every 10 seconds for a few minutes and it
> will eventualy find it. once it finds the network the performance is
> fine...a couple megabytes/second even when several rooms over. Its
> just that as soon as you take the card out or put the machine to sleep
> or reboot it you have to go thru this process again to eventually
> reassociate the network.
>
> I've already done all the available firmware updates for the wireless
> hardware, but other posters even with non-linksys hw saying things
> like "But it works fine in my Dell laptop" has me thinking its
> something that Compaq and/or microsoft will have to fix.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas...
> Carmen
--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)
cards from DLink here, one based on the Prism chipset and one based on the
Atheros. I have a DLink 624 draft G router. I do not see these problems
here. I also have a, b and a/b gear here and do not see problems on the
Evos. I don't know what else is on your machine, but it seems like it may be
something in your environment or settings. I'd start by turning off any
power management settings to the pccard etc.
cr wrote:
> I put a Linksys 802.11g draft card into a Compaq Evo600 and found that
> it failed to find the Linksys WRT54G in virtually identical physical
> environment and software conditions where a Thinkpad worked fine. The
> Evo was not yet updated to sp1 so i did that as well as every other
> wireless related update in the list of available options...yet the
> problem remains.
>
> I did some searching, and it appears other people with different Evo
> models, the 620, and 800, as well as wireless cards from D-Link and
> Orinoco in addition to linksys all have run across the same problem.
> You can add the SSID to the list of preferred nets, but it fails to
> see it as an available network, even if the red X goes away on the
> network's icon in the lower pane. Generally in my case i can keep
> hitting 'refresh' roughly every 10 seconds for a few minutes and it
> will eventualy find it. once it finds the network the performance is
> fine...a couple megabytes/second even when several rooms over. Its
> just that as soon as you take the card out or put the machine to sleep
> or reboot it you have to go thru this process again to eventually
> reassociate the network.
>
> I've already done all the available firmware updates for the wireless
> hardware, but other posters even with non-linksys hw saying things
> like "But it works fine in my Dell laptop" has me thinking its
> something that Compaq and/or microsoft will have to fix.
>
> Let me know if you have any ideas...
> Carmen
--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)