Compaq Evo wireless problems w/ XP (Multiple models)

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

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