On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 12:14 -0400, Jeremy wrote: > On 11-09-26 02:20 PM, 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. > Personally (for both cost and ease of finding it) I would find the > smallest USB wifi adapter I could and strip it down even more. Then use > a very short usb cable to go around the back of the system and velcro it > to a blank space somewhere. Disable internal network card and voila. I > have done this myself, use the good industrial velcro stuff, I even used > to attach an external hard drive to my eeepc like this. > > It is even conceivable you could mount it inside somewhere and connect > to an internal USB header. > > Not as nice as having the stock one, but with that BIOS bullcrap and the > high cost of the internal cards...
I once did this on an old laptop, I actually stuffed a usb hub and a wireless card into a spare PCMCIA slot. I soldered the hub right onto the motherboard (I needed the hub because otherwise I'd sacrifice the only usb port on the laptop :P). But it doesn't work very well. USB wireless cards already have tiny antennas to begin with, placing the card inside the laptop just made reception even worse. I like internal cards because they make use of the nice big antennas built into the screen. Also, I beat the crap out of my laptops so anything hanging off of it will surely get ripped off at some point ;) > Have you looked into filing a bug report on it? > I have, but I'm not sure who to send the report to. Today's test (not using network-manager) should give me a better idea. So far I haven't lost my connection, but there aren't many other laptops around me... Good to hear from you, nick _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
