battling a linksys wireless card

Forum: Networking
Topic: battling a linksys wireless card
started by: stschad

Posted by stschad on Mar. 12 2006,17:00

I'm running DSL on an old Thinkpad T21 and am quite happy with it. I put a Linksys wpc54gs card in it yesterday and was surprised to find out how straightforward it was to configure. I pulled the Windows XP driver off the cd, moved it under /opt, ran Ndiswrapper, and it brought up my home wireless network. What I can't figure out is why my machine freezes after navigating through half a dozen web pages. I've checked for interrupt conflicts, set all the pci interrupt settings in the bios to "autodetect" and so forth, played with different versions of the drivers, removed the internal ethernet card, etc. Zero effect. But for those first half dozen web pages, the performance is awesome. Maybe DSL is blameless and there is some kind of latency between the wireless card and my zoom adsl x6 wireless hub? Yeah, I know--clutching at straws.

After watching this battle for the last 24 hours, my spouse has agreed to greenlight a new laptop purchase if it will just shut me up (I told her that DSL could really use more horsepower!) So in addition to wireless card fix ideas I'm also curious if anyone has had a spectacular success running DSL on a new laptop? Did it support wireless with no hassle? Anyone running DSL on a new Thinkpad and using the internal wireless antenna? Much as I like the challenge of flogging my old machine, spousal approval for a new one is something I hate to waste.

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Posted by Brendan Paradis on Mar. 14 2006,02:33

used to have this problem with my linksys card, it was an 11MB per second desktop card, Tried the drivers under linux, windows xp, 2000, ect and they would always freeze after going to a few pages. Complete hard freeze, tested the card in other computers and it worked fine so i geuss it might just be a hardware incompatibility...