On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 16:26 -0400, Andy Pintar wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Nick Nobody wrote: > > Hello mluggers! > > I've been fighting with the on-board wireless (Intel 3954) in my T60 > > ever since I got it. At home it works perfectly, good speeds and the > > connection never drops out. But if I bring it anywhere where a bunch of > > people are using the same access point the connection drops frequently > > and it takes a significant amount of time for it to come back. > > Restarting the network manager daemon normally speeds things up but it's > > still very annoying. > > Hi Nick; > Sorry to hear you're having problems. I have a T60 with the onboard intel > and it works stunningly. What OS are you running? For what it's worth, > my route to success was to ditch networkmanager completely, that software > is total garbage. Works fine for some but I absolutely have zero > patience for that crap. Delete/remove/uninstall/disable that stuff and > just use wpa_supplicant. You will have to edit a text file to add new > access points, but if you can handle that then you're golden. I'd be > willing to bet that your problems have nothing to do with the card and > everything to do with networkmanager. There is some gui overlay for it I > think but I've never touched that.
Ok, I'll give that a shot tomorrow but I'm pretty sure I tried that last year with limited success. I'm running Linux Mint 10 with an Ubuntu 2.6.39 kernel. I've tried a bunch of kernels and combinations of wireless drivers without any luck. The only thing that helps is setting the iwl3945 modules's "disable_hw_scan" option. If that's not set the connection drops even more often. > > Anyway, there are two cards supported by this hardware: the Intel 3945 > > What do you mean? That the t60 can ship with either intel or atheros? It only shipped with either an Intel or Atheros card (and maybe another brand that included 802.11n support). The bios has a white-list of allowed cards, and it's not a very big list. See this link for more info: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card > The intel card/chipset is just fine. Check out madwifi mailing lists, > look at the aircrack-ng forums, you should have no problems whatsoever > with a recent OS. I had the same card in my old laptop too and I'd run into the same problem, I don't think the card very good. Other classmates that have Atheros cards don't run into this problem (and they use network-manager too!). > If you really have problems, just use a USB wifi > dongle, just about any ought to work (do your homework). I've had success > using tplink, dlink, can't remember models. I'd rather not have to carry a USB dongle, if I can get a replacement card that would be much more convenient. Thanks for the suggestions, nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
