Intel Wireless 5300 AGN BSOD on Windows 7 when under load

I wondered how many others were having problems with their T500 on Windows 7 using Wireless N on an Intel 5300 card. After a lot of data has been transferred over the wireless (possibly 2GB - i.e. the 32 bit number boundary?), the machine crashes with a BSOD. Analysis of the minidump shows it's the Intel Wireless Driver (NetW5s64.sys) - and this is the very latest version (13.0.0.107) both on Lenovo support and Intel Support. Note I also saw the same problem when running 32 bit Windows 7 (NetW5s32.sys), and I've also seen reports of this problem on Dell's and Toshiba's with this card inside.
Anyone at Lenovo have a clue if Intel are aware of the problem and working to fix it? Have others seen this problem?
noz

Similar thread, also with Event-ID 41, though file of concern seems to be pci.sys:
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/X201-Random-Shutdown-Screen-goes-off/td-p/2471...
How exactly did it occur? Did your x201 automatically go into hibernation after the defined time?
Because at my place this BSOD occurs suddenly, last time it happened about 1 minute after i was using the notebook. Trying to find analogies there ...
Win 7 32Bit though.
I disabled Multi-Core in BIOS so i don't have regular lags.
I always keep energy saving settings to "Maximum Performance" so i don't have regular contrast issues.
I deinstalled ThinkAdvantage Access Connections so i don't have random WLAN Adapter "power offs".

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Access Connections 5.02 and Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN

Has somebody else come across that the new Access Connections 5.02 is incompatible with the Intel's 5300 AGN Wlan card deployed in ThinkPad T400? I have verified that the right driver (newest => 12.00.4000) is installed for the card in Windows XP, newest Access Connections software (5.02), Power Management Driver (/ACPI => v1.50) and Hotkey (v2.08.2008) utility.
We use Microsoft's RIS to deploy Windows workstations with Windows XP SP3 and creating the image for our one and only T400 has been, to put mildly, tricky.
The problem is that Access Connections (triggered through Fn+F5) is not able to power off or power on the WLAN card. It is able to work with the Bluetooth radio, but not the WLAN.
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Message Edited by mellimik on 10-07-2008 05:51 AM

mellimik wrote:
Going through the README for Access Connections reveals T400 is one of the supported models, but Intel WiFi Link 5300 is not mentioned in the wireless adapter list. 5100 is, but not 5300. Now I'm not sure if the Lenovo's documentation is just not up-to-date, or what?
The 5300 is definitely listed on some of the standard T400 configurations, and is also a selectable option on the CTO configurations, so there is no doubt that the 5300 should be a supported card for the T400.
mellimik wrote:
Has somebody else come across that the new Access Connections 5.02 is incompatible with the Intel's 5300 AGN Wlan card deployed in ThinkPad T400? I have verified that the right driver (newest => 12.00.4000) is installed for the card in Windows XP, newest Access Connections software (5.02), Power Management Driver (/ACPI => v1.50) and Hotkey (v2.08.2008) utility.
The laptop came pre-installed with Vista SP1, but I did not even bother to load it even once, since I always just start creating RIS image for new ThinkPad models.
It's your call what you do, but my advice is to always fire up the vendor installed environment for any new configuration that comes to hand and make sure that everything works as expected before blowing it away with some other SOE.
That establishes a baseline for what may or not be workable, which is an essential element for later troubleshooting in a custom OS load.
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T500 - Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN Driver

I purchased my T500 within the first week Lenovo had it available for US consumers to order. I was assured the machine was going to come with a WiMax card. I gave it to my daughter to use. We never tested WiMax since we did not have WiMax in our city until October of last year. Came to find out, our machine did not come with a WiMax card as was promissed. It has in it the Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN card instead. Needless to say, I no longer feel comfortable ordering from Lenovo anymore. We got seven laptops in the house. Five of which are ThinkPads. However, we've moved over to Samsung after this unpleasant experience.
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Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000,
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200/ 6205,
Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250,
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300,
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945BG, 3945ABG Network Connection,
Intel WiFi Link 1000/ 5350,
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AG/ 4965AGN
Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows XP 08 Sep 2011 14.02.0000
The link leads you to the following download page:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-77063
This package installs the software (Wireless LAN driver and utility) to enable the following devices:
Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 (Intel(R) WiFi Link 1000)
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945BG Network Connection
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Intel WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN
Intel WiFi Link 5350
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AG
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
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The subject line pretty much says it all*. Does anyone have any concrete experience with 802.11n on a newer Thinkpad with the "Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN)" card talking to a Linksys WRT160N? With Fedora?

Hello Joe,
I"m running into a simuliar problem but a bit more generic. I'm using SuSE11.1RC5 which should support this hardware in the kernel. I can see all the accesspoints around me but cannot connect. Even when I set mine to open I don't get any results. I undestand that I'm running a prelease version, but one would think if it can hear, it should be able to connect.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X200S "Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN" Not Working well .

Hello everybody
I am having a Very Annoying Problem with My Laptop Wireless LAN
Intel Wireless LAN (11abgn, abg, BG), “Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN”
The Problem is, it work fine one time and next 10 times it
is not working, when it stop working it appear like there is no Wireless card at all, nothing in
Device manager, not even with yellow ? mark … ,nothing there at all , if you asked me what I do to make it work again , I will
say “NOTHING” I only Keep restarting my Laptop forever till it work again by itself, here is some information about my system hop it will help :
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Also I am installing the latest Driver from Lenovo see the Pic:
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15.5.6000.1657/15.5.6.48 Intel Wireless Driver - DO NOT INSTALL with Windows 8

As the title says
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Problem Solved.
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Intel Wi-Fi cards support full 802.11n speed of 300 Mb/s working at 5 GHz range only. Your D-Link DSL-2740B works only in 2.4 GHz range. So to get 300 Mb/s you have to get another wi-fi router that supports 802.11n in both 2.4 and 5 GHz, for instance Lynksys WRT610N or Apple Airport Extreme or whatever.

W500 Intel wifi Link 5300 AGN- No N?

I have a W500 with Win 7 x64. I have the Intel wifi link 5300 AGN wireless card and the Intel drivers, 14.3.2.1
In Device Manager, Advanced tab, it shows those settings for 802.11n properties. But at the bottom of the list, Wireless Mode, it only shows 802.11a/b/g. There is no N mode. Is this card capable of N speeds wirelessly? Thank you for your help.
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"N" isn't a specific mode you set on the wireless card, the options should be various mixtures of A, B, and G listed.
802.11B and 802.11G are both in the 2.4Ghz range, which everything and it's brother uses including microwaves, cordless phones, etc. So it's very noisy, but common. 802.11G is the higher-speed version of 802.11B; if anything on given wireless frequency 'channel' only supports 802.11B, everything on that channel is limited to 802.11B.
A is in the 5.0Ghz range, and 802.11A is the *ONLY* thing there; it's also a much lesser-used standard, you need specific wireless routers that support it, etc. If you can use it, do so.
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T420 - Intel Wireless and Windows XP issue?

Has anyone else seen any issues with using the Intel Wireless Advanced-N 6205 card on Windows XP? I have a 4178-6UU and it will work for a while, then just stop receiving packets, but will not disconnect even though it doesn't work and I am no longer able to ping it.
I have the latest driver available from Intel and Lenovo (14.0.1.2), and also the latest BIOS (1.22). Unfortunately, I have to have XP/SP3 on these T420's. Any suggestions or is anyone else seeing any issues?

Have you solved this issue? If so how? I think I may have the same issue. I don't understand all terminology in the post such as "ping", so I can't be certain if it is exactly the same issue. Also I use Windows 7 Pro. However in certain locations but not all, my wireless capabilities are horrible. The same locations that worked just fine with my Dell E6400, that I recently switched from are not working on my lenovo T420 4178-6UU. The internet access is constantly loss and I have to reconnect over and over again throughout the work day. HELP!!!! (SN: This keyboard is the best I have ever worked on, I don't think I will ever buy a different kind of PC, that is if I can resolve this wireless issue).

T60 WLAN COMPLETELY GONE after installing latest Update Intel Wireless WiFi Link for Windows XP

I just reinstalled a T60 from scratch TWICE to the point of updating - Intel Wireless Wifi Link for Windows XP -
Just after that very latest Update (3.1.1.1 or so?) there is no WLAN possible and I had to find out, that a system restore is impossible either! (Simply does not work and asks me to get another point and try again)
I have a full backup done by acronis 2010 so that does not bother me so very much.
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(contains 3945AGB WLAN Module!)
After Updating U HAVE NO CHANCE TO REPAIR IT! U get always the problem signature
szAppName: AcSvc.exe szAppVer: 5.6.1.33 szModName: PfMgrApi.dll
szModVer : 13.0.0.2 offset: 000d4912
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start AccessConnections.
U can DEinstall AccessConnections and Intel Wireless Wifi Link for XP completely, reboot
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I could not get out of this Driver Installation Hell until I did a complete Recovery Install and
I got back to Hell when System Update REinstalled Intel Wireless WiFi Link for XP
automagically...;-(((
And again NO CHANCE to roll back, No chance to get rid of that annoying bug. This time I have an ACRONIS-Image so I can spare some time....
Somebody shoud really CHECK this, because it should not be possible to break down an completely NICE RUNNING Thinkpad THIS WAY just by updating it! As it took me abaout 12 Hours of Administration by now I
really would apreciate to help whomever to find out what the hell is responsible 4 this !!!
Why is XP System Restore not working on an T60 to roll back to Point b4 installation of this Update???
(I could not use that Thinkvantage-System Recovery because it did not even get all its updates by the
time the system went in limbo during install! What i defintely can say is that it breaks at exactely
same point when Intel Wifi Updates is installed...
I do my Acronis Restore now and try 2 avoid this Update....;-(
if anybody KNOWS how to get that system 2 an earlier point of an install orgy i whould be thankful to get that information...
I am keeping alive 12 Thinkpads here R40 R50 T42 T43 T60 T61p T400 T500 and NEVER
experienced problems like this in many years!
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GAL9000

gal9000, welcome to the forum,
have you tried running windows system restore from safe mode? It usually works then because some anti-virus softwares will prevent it from running successfully from "normal" windows.
Hope this helps.
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About Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN

Hi there guys,
it's my first post on this forum even although I should've asked here first. I have the same problem with the network wifi adapter as mentioned in the previous thread with this subject: it happens to disconnect and after that it doesn't appear in Device Manager for some time. Ussually I go there 'scan for hardware changes' and it appears back, but sometimes it doesn't come back for good and I need to restart my laptop.
So..this is quite sad. I've read all the opinions about this and all solutions so far and nothing worked for me.
I checked my driver on Intel and it says:
Product Detected
Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
Current Driver Installed
14.3.2.1
This device is unknown or unsupported. Please contact the manufacturer for possible updates.
So I downloaded their newer driver which is 15.3 and still the driver version remains 14.3.
This is becoming quite annoying becouse it happens to disconnect right when I am downloading or writing an email.
Did someone from tech support found a solution for this? please! I would appreciate a lot. Thank you.
p.s. I am running win8 pro.

thinkFan wrote:
So I downloaded their newer driver which is 15.3 and still the driver version remains 14.3.
According to the read-me file for the 15.* series drivers from Intel, they DO NOT support the 5300 AGN card.
Cheers,
Bill
I don't work for Lenovo

Home Network Router for T500 w/Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN)

I just purchased a new T500 notebook (Type 2242-34U) and am interested in setting up a home network. I have broadband cable hooked up to my Dell PC (Time Warner/Roadrunner). My T500 comes with Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN). Any advice and/or recommendations with regards to the model/type of router is greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch.
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oonouye wrote:
My T500 comes with Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN). Any advice and/or recommendations with regards to the model/type of router is greatly appreciated.
Get a Cisco/Linksys WRT-610N.
As Small Net Builder says.....
But if you're looking for a reasonably-priced dual-band, dual-radio draft 11n router, the 610N continues the 600N's tradition of being the only viable game in town.
- http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30530/96/
I'm using a Linksys WRT-600N (the previous model) with 4965AGN and 5300AGN cards in various ThinkPads and have been very satisfied with the 802.11n performance.
Cheers,
Bill
I don't work for Lenovo

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