Wireless issues with Intel/Pro Wireless 2200BG

Maybe go back a few pages or search intel's site for different versions. If each one doesnt work, you just have to keep trying. See this card has a lot of issues (well more than other cards) and its mainly the drivers that fix it. So right now, just try all different drivers. I really cant explain why there quiting between half way.

Nk

 

Just got my new Toshiba M50. I am experiencing the same problem with the 2200. Called tech support 3 times and none could help me. How can Toshiba help? Its still fresh from the oven. What can we do with the warranty??

 

Have you tryed different 220o drivers from the Intel site?

 

I replaced the laptop with another and the same problem persists. Now I have a HP Pavilion which I swapped with my Toshiba. But it has the same 2200bg. But I thought the driver wld be right. But I still have a similar problem. I noticed the driver to be a 2004 version just like the Toshiba. Could it be my router?. But my other desktop computer has no problem. Anyone else has a similar issue with 2 diff brands having the same problem?

 

You need to go to intel's site and try all of the drivers. There is one driver right for your situation, you just need to find it. Otherwise, you will get no where because mainly, if its the same problem, its between your card or router. Try going to your routers site and update the firmware.

 

Thanks nickspohn. I will just do that.

 

Hi nickspohn,

I need your help. I am not able to get it working still. But I wld like to use a pc card from linksys to work with the Linksys router as well. But I got an error msg saying there is a limited connection. I have disabled the 2200 card. Is there a conflict somewhere? What must I do to get this card working with the router?

 

Did you unplug your modem from the wall and plug it back in?

 

Fwiw, I experienced network problems on my dv4270 until I uninstalled all Norton software. No problems since.

 

Hi nickspohn,
There seems to be a conflict with the loaded drivers even though the 2200BG is disabled using the device manager option. I was advised to disable the WLAN in the advance system BIOS. With this done, the PC card works like a charm. I am using this option now, even though the pc card is sticking out like a sore thumb. I intend to upgrade the firmware of the router and try if this will help get the incompatibility issue settled. Can you advise me how I shd do this? I have already downloaded the latest firmware from Linksys site. Shd this be done on the pc which is connected to the wireless router or the laptop?

 

Firmware upgrades for routers should always be done from a hard-wired connection- NEVER from a wireless connection, so use your desktop.

 

Not really, i only have the laptop and i do mine wireless all the time. It works like a charm and i have never seen in the instructions that it needs to be wired.

 

If I were to upgrade the firmware of the router and I find that the incompatibility still unresolved, is there a possibility that my pc card may not work with the router with the new firmware installed?

 

It will work, new firmware is made to help all of those issues so it wont effect it. If it happens to do so, then you can just always download the version you had previously.

 

Righto, Nickspohn!

 

Nickspohn, I have downloaded the firmware and it is in BIN format. How do you install this type of file?

 

Hi, big newbie here. I just bought my first (!!) laptop, so please forgive the n00b like question, so to speak.

I have a netgear mr814v2 (wireless b) router and this wireless card in my laptop. I was at first concered that that would work together but people on another forum assured me it would (and then right now, I just went to look at the properties of this Intel/pro wireless 2200bg network connection and it says it's b/g...even though the laptop specs just said g...anyhoo).

So I wanted to use my own internet access and I can't for the life of me connect to my own network, but I can connect to my nearby neighbour's fine (albeit veryyyyy slow and apparently wireless b speeds - 11mbps but usually muchhhh less).

The network shows up and this happens: http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/5054/network4ty.jpg and then it gives up.

Is this a problem with my router or my wireless card? Or something else completely? I tweaked with all the settings with my router and nothing (I even now have it as an unsecured network). I am going to go out tomorrow and buy a new wireless g router but if it STILL can't connect, I will go nut nuts!

Also, as a sidenote, can I assume that the neighbour's wireless signal, that I am stealing right now, is using wireless b?... b/c the speed is always wavering around 5.5 and the max says it's at 11. Whilst, mine too is wireless b but it can't connect... And when I get my wireless g router, it WILL be around 54 mbps....right?
:gateway:

 

On a side note: Stealing WiFi is illegal and its just not right to do.

But this problem is no big deal (we hope). First the major thing with the 2200 card, is its compatibility issues. I know it works with the B/G, but this is what you need to do:
Go to your routers website and look for firmware and downloads and download the latest firmware for your router.
After that if it doesnt work, go to intels site and try the latest drivers for the 2200 card. If that doesn't work, try all of the other drivers. Good Luck!

 

Yeah, I don't intend to use this stolen, albeit unsecured, wifi signal -- which also happens to be incredibly slow. I want desparately to get on my own network!

Thanks, I'll go try out your suggestion, if the new wireless g router I intend to buy tomorrow doesn't work out... as I know wireless b is rather slow. After that, I' think I'll try out what other people have been doing (uninstall the current drivers and then reinstall the newest one)

It's a bit weird though, that my laptop isn't connecting to my network. A few months ago, I noticed an unfamiliar device using my network (which I am assuming was a neighbour, since I at the time didn't know about securing my network) and if someone else can connect to it (not using the usb adapter of the same model number), why can't I? Hmm, I'm a bit confused about that

 

Well I bought and installed the new wireless g router today and my laptop can connect to it! However, now I'm noticing weird internet speeds that people were talking about in this thread. Every few minutes, it will have to reconnect itself... I guess I really have to do the fix.

Deleting and reinstalling the 2200 card is pretty self-explanatory (/easy) right? I am quite computer illiterate when it comes to these things...


edit After my internet connection disconnected itself for the hundredth time (thus stopping my downloads and such), I just went ahead and installed 9.0.3.0 but didn't delete the old firmware first... now, I can keep my connection up without it pooping out...and much faster (thanks to my new wireless g router). The old version I had, 9.0.2.0 I believe it was, that was horrible.

 

Router firmware upgrades do state that they should be done VIA wired connection FYI

what happens if the upgrade you are doing shuts down your connection and restarts it and then its missing files, ya get a burnt out router potentially.

 

Well, I do have something worthwhile (FINALLY) to share. My daughter's laptop has a 2915 card in it, works flawlessly at her school and was plagued by disconnects at home and in her apt., both of which have the D-link 624 router. Driver and firmware updates, the power polling changes, etc. made the school connection rock-solid but didn't help at home, with the connection sometimes disconnecting every couple of minutes, sometimes over longer periods. With her AIM open I could see a series of signing on/off from my computer (with a window for her screen name open). Other laptops on the network were fine even though hers got kicked off (interestingly, even one with a 2200 card).

Anyway, I decided to try switching routers. Since it seemed to me that the gamut of routers was tried by people here I did the atypical thing and went to Bestbuy and picked the salesman's brain. I was going to buy the Belkin wireless G plus MIMO router which was top-rated by Tomshardware, but the salesperson strongly recommended the Netgear rangemax. He had encountered this complaint before (no surprise) and told me this seemed to work for people and felt that this was the most stable router. The seven internal antennas transmit simultaneously and result in fewer lost packets and errors, increasing range and throughput. There is a newer Netgear out (the Rangemax 240) which uses the next generation chip, but that one has 3 external antennas rather than the internal switching that the original Netgear Rangemax has. While the potential is there for higher speeds with the newer model, neither will help increase the speed past 54 Mbs because that's the max of the Intel wireless cards anyway (for that you'd need an external card).

It has been 13 hours and her laptop has not disconnected once, which is remarkable even if she had been using it but it has been on, AIM open, but unattended. It may be a little pricey, but the Netgear WPN824 RangeMax wireless router seems to be doing the trick. If I think about all the hours I have wasted trying to resolve this, the price of the router even starts to seem cheap if it continues to work so well.

 

Well im glad its working for your daughter.

With your old router, did you do a firmware upgrade? Because if you didn't, you probaly could have fixed it right there.

But getting a new update router is great anyway. Im telling ya, Netgear works, but people try to go cheaper with D-Link and Belkin. Its up to anyones choice, but what works, works. Congrats Again.

 

Nickspohn- I had tried everything listed everywhere, including firmware upgrades. trust me, if someone posted it as a possible solution, I tried it. Nothing worked.

Reading about this router it seems that it is specially suited for maintaining connections because of the 7 internal antennas. My guess is that interference from other wireless networks is causing the problem for us (only because in school where there is obviously a single and I would guess must stronger network her connection was fine).

And, yes, saving money is my middle name ;-)...but the amt. of time and aggravation already wasted makes this purchase seem almost cheap...now on a quest to find a dealer that is carrying the newer version 2 of this router

 

Well let us know if you find V.2

 

Couldn't find version 2 anywhere- seems we'll have to wait till the local stores run out and reorder. Anyway, I decided to opt for the new netgear Rangemax 240 (the WPNT834) because it uses the newest technology, got rave reviews and I just don't want any more aggravation. Haven't tried it with my daughter's laptop yet, but my husband's Dell Axim had been funky also with the d-link router, had a solid connection with the WPN824, but a stronger connection with the WPNT834 (as well as solid) while being used in the same spot in the house. I tried our 2 other laptops and they work great- 54 signal strength consistently, no drops (and one does have the 2200 card, although for some reason that one didn't give us headaches like my daughter's did).

Update- works perfectly with my daughter's laptop in her apartment, where she had trouble staying connected for more than 5 minutes. Strong connection, even unattended (laptop on, AIM open).

May be a pricey solution, but it beats all the time we've wasted on this.

 

upgrading to another router may sort out your problems at home but i have this problem on my laptop , i purchased the nx8220 as a MOBILE device to connect to the net where ever i may be and expect a reliable service when at home nd out and about so Intel get your finger out as thie is not a true mobile device , if all us disgrunteld customers were to get together could there not be a trading standards issue here........

 

oh oops: heres my story:

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop, the intel 2200bg wireless card and the WRT54G. My connection works fine, except at random intervals (sometimes 2 hours apart, sometimes 30 minutes) my wifi light goes off and I loose connection. By pressing Fn+F2 to turn them back on nearly always resurrects my connection but it is annoying.

So I was reading from the beginning of this thread, and I saw the option to upgrade firmware so I upgraded the firmware too: 9.0.3.9

Now I have no welcome screen and I can't use fast switching, when I try and enable them in control panel >user accounts, it says: A recently installed program has disabled these functions, to restore these features. IWPDGINA.DLL might help to tell you which program. . .which I think is the wireless. .is there an easy fix, or do I just have to roll back the software? If so, to which one?

Thanks

 

You don't have to remove the entire installation. Just rerun the driver setup and remove single login component, or whatever they call it. After that the windows welcome screen with fast user switching is back.
However the new driver 9.0.3.9 does not fixt the problem. I'm still having this mysterious degradation of speed.

Has anyone tried to contact Intel about this. And if you have what did they say?

 

Hey all.
Here's another data point in this ongoing saga.
I got Fujitsu Pseries Lifebook with, you guessed it, Intel 2200BG adapter. I tried all the drivers mentioned in this thread (including the 8.0... from Fujitsu) and still get the slow degradation of speed from the initial 54 down to 1. I also tried setting the power management to Max manually as described in a Dell's support article. And setting the preable to long. Nothing seems to work. I guess changing the cards is the only way to fix this for any WAP not just the one at home.

Intel, if you read this you should be ashamed of yourselves.

 

I just noticed something interesting. While the connection speed status states that the speed is 1 Mbps the pages load up pretty quick, almost instanteneous. Could it be that the problem is with the reporting of the speed and not the speed itself?
Has anyone else experienced this?

 

hello people,

i also had the problem that my wireless link go's down.
after i changed protected mode to enable on my accesspoint the problem was over.
Here there is some info what this protection mode is:

Protected Mode
NOTE: In most situations, best performance (throughput) is achieved with Protected Mode OFF. If you are operating in an environment with HEAVY 802.11b traffic or interference, best performance may be achieved with Protected Mode ON.

this solved the problem for me.

 

So what's the conclusion now? What is the best driver for this wireless card?

 

I think it's the adapter itself or they just can't solve the driver problem.

It's just a piece of crap.

Go invest 60bucks canadian 50bucks american and get yourself one of these atheros cards in the buy/sell section. The firebretha group buy.

I did and I'm happy as heck. This wireless adapter is like a wired connection. Doesn't wanna drop. Has never dropped yet and I've had it for a couple weeks now.

The 2200bg in my z70va was a piece of crap and I have it in my hands right now about to break it in half.



Cheers,
Mike

 

I heard that the Atheros cards decreased the battery life . . . any comments? Sorry if that is bit OT.

I have the Intel PRO2915 a/b/g card in my notebook, zero problems. Driver updates help. Never had a dropped connection, connects to all of my friend's networks without problems. I have very low lag while gaming online too.

The 2915 seems to be clearly superior to the 2200.

 

It is. I would any day prefer the 2915 over the 2200 card.

With the Atheros, it is suppose to reduce battery life by 98% or something like that. Although it is better than the 2915, i would still have the Intel card. I don't know why, i just feel better with that card.

And as for the new cards in the Duo Core lines. Im interested too see how they are going to turn out.

 

I don't have an ebay account so buying the atheros card is out of the question. But I'm thinking of buying a USB 2.0 wireless adapter or a pci adapter. What type is better and also is it difficult to remove my 2200bg and replace it?

 

Hey Chaz.

I have not noticed any decrease in battery life thus far. It seems the same if not better. Really.

If it DOES decrease battery life a little bit in some systems, heck why not? If it never drops a connection and keeps your wireless connection on tap all the time I'd think the decrease in battery life is worth it.

Cheers,
Mike

 

you dont need an ebay account
just a paypal account.


My battery life has been great, I have been jacking networks while driving down the road

 

I hope it hasn't been my network. Since we are virtually in the same neighborhood

 

This is interesting....I've never read this post before. Yesterday I ordered my new laptop with the 2200 card and an hour later I read this.

I called Dell immediately and switched to the 2915 card...

 

i would love to upgrade to my atheros card but i have a hp nx8220 and they have the bios whitelist which results in the rerror 104 on boot if i try fitting the card

**** intel
**** hp

wireless non existent when these two are in the same room

 

lavc75, good move, that card seems to pick up signals better than the 2200bg. I had a short time to test it out when I setup my sister's friend's z63a.

computacaremark...are you serious?????? awwww man that stinks like poo poo. No way around it?

 

Here is a new driver for the 2200 Card (and others as well)

Link is found in the link i give you:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=39357

 

Yeah that new driver Nick gave really helped me. My speed is a consistent 54 mbps.

 

Hi Nick,

Seems that the 2200B/G driver is still v9.0.3.9 dated 12 Sept 2005 . I tried installing over the top and after removing my previous version (v9.0.3.9) - made no difference.

Regards

 

Well it didnt install then, so there would be no difference.

 

Sorry Nick, I should have made myself more clear. What I meant was that it made no difference whether I installed over the top of my current v9.0.3.9 driver or after uninstalling it first; the version remained unchanged at v9.0.3.9.

Having now checked via the appropriate Intel download page at http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-010623.htm, it seems that the actual v10.1.0.13 device driver is only applicable to the Intel/Pro Wireless 3945ABG adaptor.

Regards

 

You need to unistalll your old driver first of all. Or it wont work.

Second - Its for the 2200BG/2915ABG/3945ABG - That is for sure

Nick

 

Hi again Nick,

As I stated in my posts above - I tried it after uninstalling my previous version.

I agree that the Intel Pro/Wireless software utilities (v10.1.0. 3) are applicable to the 2200BG/2915ABG/3945ABG cards. However, the table shown in the link I provided above clearly indicates that the v10.1.0. 13 device driver only applies to the 3945ABG adaptor with the other two cards using the same device driver (v9.0.3.9) as the previous release.

As the performance of the wireless link is governed by the device driver, I see no merit in using this newest release (unless you want the improved GUI) on either the 2200 or 2915 adaptors.

Regards