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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:31:31 -0400
From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] WiFi dropouts (was TP Hibernation

On 06/20/07 03:53 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote :
> In <list-1227844@2rosenthals.com>, on 06/20/07 
>    at 09:27 AM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
> typed: >Back on-topic, and probably should be split off into a separate
> thread:   >I'm interested to hear from both of you as to any Wi-Fi
> dropouts you may  >experience with the 2915 or the 3945 cards. I find the
> later Intel  >drivers to be less susceptible to this condition, but still,
> they  >happen. I have a client where we just deployed two T60's (running
> XP),  >patched to the latest levels (the latest Intel driver for the 3945
> did  >*not* work properly with Access Connections, so I had to roll back
> to  >the latest offered by Lenovo), and I have seen a couple dropouts
> already  >(and not related to the use of WPA2; these were complete loss of
>  >connectivity from the card, requiring a reboot to reactivate).
>
> I have, for another week, a T43 with the 2915 abg nic. I exercised the
> wireless and once I got it to work, didn't notice any dropouts.  I'll
> exercise it a bit more during the next few days.  I did use the latest
> driver, and didn't have any trouble with Axis Connections, which I
> subsequently disabled, setting it up just to use XP to manage the
> connection.
>  
>   
Thanks, Julian. Interesting that the latest 2915 driver seems to work 
fine with AC, yet the 3945 doesn't seem to want to do that (tried on two 
separate T60's).

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Lewis
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