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    Intel 5300 wifi, m860tu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Mausimo, Oct 10, 2008.

  1. Mausimo

    Mausimo Notebook Consultant

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    For anyone out there that owns the m860tu and got the 5300 wifi or simply owns the 5300 wifi and are experiencing problem with it such as disconnects.

    I got this laptop and was randomly and quite often experiencing disconnects/signal lost and regained. I did some troubleshooting and tried various wifi setting and none helped. I then upgraded to the newest driver and proset software. I feel that the connection problems got much worse with this update. I then uninstalled the intel proset software and the wifi card/drivers. I then reinstalled the intel drivers for just the card and am using it with the windows wireless manger. I am no longer experiencing any disconnects/signal loss problems.

    as a note, i am using windows XP and i did try switching over the wireless control to windows wireless manager, while leaving the intel proset software installed, the problems were still there. I needed to uninstall it all to make this wifi card work properly.

    Hope this can help anyone experiencing similar/same problems.

    cheers!
     
    Mausimo, Oct 10, 2008
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  2. Deathwinger

    Deathwinger Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have updated to the latest drivers on Intel's website and I no longer have problems with my wireless card. I am running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Before upgrading the drivers, I did have some loss in connection as well as slow connectivity.
     
    Deathwinger, Oct 10, 2008
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  3. livesoft

    livesoft BUSTED

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    Latest version is something like 12.1.014. Im having less problems, never really had a full disconnect issue but had a bad time connecting to my retarded WPA2-Enterprise-EAP-MSCHAPv2 authentification at school.
     
    livesoft, Oct 11, 2008
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