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New m140 loses wireless connection
I have a new m140 with intel pro 2915 ABG internal wireless (just received 17 April 06). I have a Belkin wireless router 54g that is less than 1 year old. To this I have a Dell Dimension 8300 desktop hooked up via wire, and a 4 year old Dell Inspiron 8200 hooked up wirelessly with the Belkin card that came with the router. Both the Desktop and old notebook with wireless card work flawlessly, never dropping connection.
However, the new m140 loses wireless connection pretty much every 8-10 minutes. I have to click on "refresh network list" several times before my network shows up, and then it reconnects. Interestingly, once my network connection shows up, it says "not connected," though I can clearly access the internet. I'm not sure what this is about. In any event, the connection will predictably drop after about 8-10 minutes (and I am using the notebook 1 foot away from the router). The older computers never drop. I've searched the forums and found several similar problems, but no solution that works for me. Any ideas? The driver version for the 2915 is 9.0.0.61, dated 10/21/2004, which seems old to me considering I just bought the notebook. Thanks for any help.
- Tried the upgrade, but now the native Windows XP network won't work. Apparently, intel installed its own network manager software, and it won't see my network - says SSID not broadcast. Also, interestingly, when I go into Device Mangager and check the driver version for the intel 2915, it still says version 9.x and not 10 like it should. Any ideas??? If I do an XP system restore, does this also revert any driver changes? Thanks.
- After Show available Wireless Networks when you look at all the options (show all networks of every kind) there should be an "Advanced" in which there is a check-box where (generally) you can specify, "Let Windows control this"
Do you find such a setting and can you select it now? Master Blitz
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Posted April 20th, 2006 18:00
If you're familiar on opening the system, try to swap the antenna for the wireless card. It might do the trick on dropping connection.In dropping connections, you can turn off Power Management on Intel Proset Utility:
Intel Proset 10.1 > Advanced > Adapter Settings > Power Mngt > Uncheck load default value then set it to Highest...
You can also change channel, reseat antenna/wless card.
- Thanks, I did find that - I was able to get windows back to controlling the network. Now I'm back to square one. My connection still drops every 10 minutes or so, and I have to refresh network connections. I'm still confused - I thought that Intel update was supposed to update the driver to version 10.x, but it still says v 9.x in device manager. I'm confused.
- Thanks, I did already change power settings to max use and stickiness to max stickiness, with no change. I'm unsure about changing channel and reset the antenna though, could you elaborate? Since the notebook is only a few days old, my bent is to send it back if it is at all hardware related - I was hoping this would be a simple software fix I could do.
- Byker49,Thanks, I think you fixed the problem. I installed the software, which switched to an Intel version to control the network. I converted back to windows, and the connections were still being dropped. When I switched back to the Intel software to control the wireless connections, the connection has been holding. Still I'm confused, what is the current software version for the Intel 2915 wireless card? Mine still says 9x. Thanks.
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Posted April 20th, 2006 06:00
This new driver from intel should fix that:
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=9720&ProductID=2259