Here we go again.......

Hey again folks,

Another problem for the gurus. i have a cf 29e. Just had it 3 weeks had more problems with it than its worth. Anyways i just received my engenius wireless card to replace the pile intel 2200bg. Installed it installed drivers, now every time i start i get an error saying resource conflict bus 02 device 01 function 00. Any ideas?? I have reset my settings in bios, nothing changed im also getting a code 10 in device manager saying it cannot start.

Any help or advice would be gratefully appreciated.
Many thanks

 

I would uninstall all COM ports in Device Manager as well as the network card. Make sure that you have the Intel Proset software uninstaled as well.

Then reboot. One thing... Did you make sure that your wifi was enabled BEFORE you swapped cards?

 

Rick, I think I just heard a big "Oh my god"

 

Here's another thing that CAN happen... Especially if it is a new (to you) Toughbook. Sometimes the BIOS dates are all screwed up. I just got some warranty work done on a unit by Heartland. I started to try to load some of the drivers as I clone my drives to get the bulk of stuff done... But each one I build is a little different... So I am always uninstalling something and installing something else. Anyway... The cloned drive had the Engenous wifi drivers in there and not the Intel that I needed. So I deleted the Engenous and loaded the most current Intel drivers... 12/09 I think. The wifi would NOT see anything. I just got a non-specific error whenever I tried to load the driver. Since there was not reason for this not to work... I started going through my mental checklist of things that would stop this from working. As it turns out.... For whatever reason... The laptop came back with the date of 6/08/08 in the BIOS... This made it so that the wifi driver would not load as it was a 12/09 driver. The anti virus also was messed up as a result.

So... After changing the date, a few uninstalls and reinstalls... Everything is Jake now. Everything is up and working perfectly... But something as simple or stupid (depending on your point of view) as having the incorrect date in the BIOS can wreak havoc with your system.

The FIRST thing I do when I get a new Toughbook in is to make sure that the BIOS is flashed to its most recent version and the date is correctly set.

 

Rick, I don't see anywhere on the 30 models to where you can do anything to the BIOS? Plus I don't ever see any BIOS info on the Panny site except for some MK1 XP stuff. Where and how do you change the date????

 

I was speaking more in terms of the CF-29 and other models... But I'll check my BIOS and let you know...

EDIT: The CF-30 is the same as the CF-29.... 2nd tab over in the BIOS is MAIN.... The date and time are changed there.

 

Resetting the date/ time in windows should update the BIOS as well. It's a little more obvious when you work on a domain and I run across this all the time with new computers, machines with motherboard swaps, and anytime the bios battery is disconnected too long. You cannot authenticate to a domain if the date/ time is too far off of what the server time is. In the case of where I work, it only allows 5 minutes fast or slow and then it resets the time to exactly match once it is authenticated. 6 minutes or more either way and no login for you.

 

Yup... I did update it in windoze.. But it took a reboot to get it all reset... At least so the drivers would recognize it.

 

Ok kinda got it up and working now i dont have any reported errors. However i cant get my engenious to find any wireless networks, even when im sitting next to the router. I looked in the bios to see if wireless is enabled but i dont see that option in there. I have the on/off switch on the front of the laptop next to the handle and the power and antena light is on. The antenna one flashes for a while then stays on permanently. Ive tried setting up with the windows wireless and the engenious software to no avail. My router is a linksys wrt 310 n running DDWRT. Any ideas what im missing??

 

I think you are confusing your WWAN and your WIFI. The front panel controls the WWAN which is cellular and requires activation with the carrier. So turniing that switch on and off will have no effect on your WIFI. As for your wifi are you using the atheros client utility? or Windows. You may need to load the atheros utility to enable the radio and hand control over to windows. I don't use atheros cards so you will have to go in there and see for yourself what the settings are.

 

Unfortunately you are mistaken - if you switch the physical wireless switch (as opposed to the wireless switch application that sits in the sytem tray) on and off, it affects *all* wireless; wireless lan, wireless lan and bluetooth will all be affected by the switch on the front.

 

I suspect you are talking about a CF-30 and the switch on the right? The OP has a CF-29 with WWAN whose switch is on the left side. This is dedicated to the WWAN sled above the battery it does not control WIFI or bluetoolh. The CF-29's do not have a hardware switch for WIFI or BT.

 

Tough-to-go is right... He's talking about a CF-29 that has the WWAN option. Keffa.... When you swap out wifi cards the option to turn it off and on disappears out of the BIOS as the BIOS is looking for an INTEL wifi card. So... If it was turned off BEFORE you swapped the card (which I doubt) it will not see the new card.

You can try a few things...

1. Go into the BIOS and set it to "Default" BIOS options... Then reboot

2. Are there other wireless networks that you COULD hook up to? I have had more than one person call me with a wifi problem and it was because their wifi router was set to the wrong band. If your router is set to N only... It will allow you to see the connection but not actually connect. Make sure that it is set to all bands and not just the N band. The Engenous card is not an N rated card. Just ABG...

The Code 10 sounds like a driver issue. Make sure you have Intel proset uninstalled and uninstall the WLAN for the Engenous... Then rebot and reinstall. If you still see nothing... I'd open it back up, reinstall the old card, go into the BIOS and make sure that the wifi IS enabled and then retry.

 

Me = idiot.

I even read he had a CF-29...but for some reason when I was writing I had CF-30 in my head. Apologies....we don't really see many CF-29/30 units over here....

 

Even on the Cf-30 The WWAN is controlled independently by a switch on the left. The wireless switch on the right is for WLAN and BT only.

 

What the hell....do we have completely seperate models in the US and Europe? I'm sure that's not the case...

I swear every CF-30 I've used has one wireless switch (on the front right) that does all of the wireless functionality.

 

They are all the same but WWAN is not standard on the CF-30 so I am guessing you have never used one that had WWAN or you would know there would be two switches on the unit.

edit: But given the wide variety of configurations you may be right about what you are saying too.

 

thanks for the reply guys. Unfortunatly in the bios it didnt even see the intel card as an option however occasionally it would work for a little bit. Im using the engenius drivers for the 8602 plus s and the software that came with it, its called wlan client utility. Is this better than the wireless configuration of windows.?? also i defaulted the BIOS and still nothing. Im going to try to install old intel card again but i dont think thatll help. Also my router is set to run in mixed mode as in a,b,g etc. Its a linksys wrt310n router with dd-wrt in it.

 

My CF-30 Mk2 only has the switch on the right. It turns on/off WWAN, WLAN and Bluetooth. There is also the software switch where you can turn each on/off.

Glen

 

Thank you for proving me not stark raving mad. I've definitly used CF-30 WWAN models before (while I admit no where near as often as CF-19 WWAN models as the smaller CF-19s are far more popular then the CF-30s in Europe).

I'll assume that maybe some of the CF-30 units for the American market have a different WWAN configuration with seperate on/off switch due to the modem differences there were.

CF-30mk1 & mk2 had different modems for the US and European markets.
CF-30mk3 (Gobi 1000) is the same modem for both US and Europe.