Wireless Card seems flakey

I know for a fact that my wireless router does not have a problem. There are at least 6 wireless devices in my house that work without a hitch, 4 of which are laptops.
However, with my new S-10 (which was a refurb), the wireless connection keeps dropping connection, despite WinXP reporting that the connetcion is "excellent" and no popup saying my connectino dropped. Rather, I will randomly loose the ability to make connections to a site.
For example, I'm downloading a Kindle Book, then all of a sudden "Kindle App could not connect to server". Or I am going to Lenovo.com on firefox, and it will be working fine, then for the next 2 minutes my browser is unable to surf anywhere.
Sounds like faulty hardware, right? Do you think Lenovo will send me a replacement? I just got this in the mail yesterday

I have, despite the ones that came pre-installed where the same as the latest ones on the lenovo site. Perhaps I will check to see if the manufacturer of the actual part has even newer ones.
However, the latter effort is unlikely to help, given that lenovo would have likely put it on it's site, as many customers would have hit the same problem I have.

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Wireless card seems to be not working

Hello everyone,
I haven't had any problems with my wireless card for my Macbook Pro since I purchased it, but something seems to be acting up now. Here's the situation...I went away for the weekend, took my laptop with me, didn't use the internet at all. Then I came back to my wireless card not working. It has a self-assigned IP address of 169.254.183.17. I did some reading on it and what people of said is that when you have this particular address your computer can't access the internet. I have power cycled both the router and modem correctly without any success.
I have another laptop that is windows based that can connect wirelessly so I've identified that it isn't a router problem. The thing that baffles me is that I can hard wire my Macbook into the router and achieve a connection...any suggestions on what I should try next?
Thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Jaden Pretzlaw

Thanks for replying,
I did go into advanced settings to see what was up. And the TCP/IP tab was the area that I was focusing on. Okay...I did try renewing the DHCP lease and it keeps giving me the unusable IP address. One potential problem that may be contributing to this fiasco is that I think the modem in my household is also a router (which we're just using as a modem). The modem isn't mine so I'm not sure how it was setup. I don't believe that modem is activated to give off a wireless connection. I don't know why it would be a problem because I was connecting to the router just fine before. If the windows based laptop can connect just fine, it wouldn't be the router...(just thinking out loud here).
I was given an option by one of our IT personal at the office that I work at...he said that I could completely remove the network from my saved list and re-enter it. He also said that I would have to delete some temporary files that are saved in a hidden folder that are "preference" files for that specific network. I wasn't able to find that folder, and I did try deleting the network but it didn't seem to fix the situation. If I could simply just go back to square one, as I did when I first connected to the network I'm sure it would fix everything.
I hope this wasn't too long to read, hopefully it gives good insight.
Regards
Message was edited by: Jaden Pretzlaw

[SOLVED] BCM43241 wireless card seems to not exist.

Hey guys, I'm trying to install Arch on a Sony Vaio Duo 13. Unfortunately, it only has a wifi card and no ethernet port. Usually, installing wireless card drivers involves using lspci to detect what card I have, then finding the drivers and firmware for it. But this time the card (BCM43241) does not show up at all in Arch (it works in Windows). There's no trace of it with lspci or lsusb (fyi: it's a builtin card).
Here's my lspci and lsusb output:
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller )rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 0a0c (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Ppoint-LP USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16/0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Lynx Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 04)
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:58df Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5722 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Any thoughts on why the device doesn't show up? Is there any other output I can provide?
Last edited by trusktr (2013-11-14 07:45:03)

trusktr wrote:@paperwastage. I'm not sure how to tell if connects through SDIO, but yeah, based on that link you posted seems like it does. But when I do dmesg | grep brcm is shows aboslutely nothing. There's no trace of my card anywhere. It just seems like Arch has no clue that the card exits (let alone that it's a wireless card). Does yours at least show up with lshw or lspci?
nope, mine doesn't show up via lshw/lspci/lsusb, probably because it's not connected to the pci / usb bus (probably connected directly to SoC)
maybe your kernel doesn't have brcmfmac loaded. try this in root
#unload brcmfmac
modprobe -r brcmfmac
#reload brcmfmac
modprobe brcmfmac
note down the logs that should print on screen (and in dmesg)
also, go to windows, use some application to read your system (I've used http://rh-software.com/)
it showed my Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SD Adapter mounted on "SD\VID_.....", which is the SDIO port

Wireless card (RTL8188CE) on Thinkpad L530? [seems solved]

I recently bought a Thinkpad and now am in the process of configuring Arch on it.. But the wireless card doesn't work as it should...
lspci says that the card is:
06:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)
The driver used is rtl8192ce, which should be fine as far as I know... and I'm on Kernel 3.4.4-2..
Now the thing is, it works, but very unstable... wpa_supplicant connects without problems, it works the same way with dhcpd or static, which is :
At one moment, it works perfectly fine, downloads packages I want to install, etc,
one minute later it can not find any host (Unknown error).
When I ping something - sometimes it works instantly with normal time (about 50ms), sometimes not at all, sometimes with time of over 1000ms(!!!) and about 40% packet loss.
What is interesting is that it seems like pinging the router itself works without problems all the time (but with initial lag). But the router can't be the problem, the card itself is fine too... So I suppose the driver is broken somehow? (The wifi on the same laptop works fine with Windows and the same network)
I don't know what to do...
Thanks in advance!
Update:
I started using networkmanager and strangely the problems vanished I hope it'll stay that way...
Last edited by icetonic (2012-08-05 19:56:22)

Yeah, I had the bios whitelist removed for my E430. I searched the thread, and you seem to be right that flashing the bios seems to be somewhat difficult. Though I think that the references there then to be for the x230 tablet. I didn't search all that hard, but the few posts I viewed were all the tablet.
I think what bricked my laptop was the UEFI bug. I got a kernel panic, and the dump was all funky looking. Normally you can somewhat decipher what caused the panic and whatnot, nothing of the sort here, I could barely tell it was a kernel panic. After that I couldn't boot. I couldn't even get a POST, which is what made me suspicious of the UEFI thing. Apparently what is happening when those Samsungs were bricked was that the NVRAM was being written to with garbage. So I thought that maybe that is where the missing info from the kernel panic went. Again, this is pure speculation, as I have no way of confirming, but I contacted Matthew Garrett and he said that my report was similar to a few other ThinkPad brickings that had also been reported to him.
The way my problem was "solved" was warranty repair. Essentially my warranty was voided when I flashed the modified bios, but if the bios is unreachable, they have no way of telling that (and I also think that my issue was totally unrelated to having a modified bios anyway), so they replaced my motherboard.
So now I have a Windows 8 bios, which is fast to POST, as this is one of the specifications for the windows 8 certification. But Serg008 from that thread I linked to told me that although he can modify the bios itself, it is again a case of being unable to flash the then modified bios to the machine. So I was stuck with the RTL8188CE until I figured out the relevant FRU for the Intel card that was an option with my machine. I found one of them on ebay just the other day and it works amazingly. Though now I have a top of the line 2x2 Intel card that I can't use (6235) and apparently has to have a very recent chipset to use. So I cannot even put it in an older machine either... I'll find a use for it eventually though.
So good luck with your issue. I'd say take a look at the FRU parts list for your machine. The list for teh E430 didn't include the Intel card for some reason, so a bit of hunting was necessary. But it might be included in your machine's list. When you find it, you can at least go to this page to see how much IBM or Lenovo will charge you for it.

PCI-e wireless card causes lock ups Z87 MPower MAX

I've already asked this question once, but was part of an epic essay that I've decided to break down into smaller more manageable chunks (as unsurprisingly that one got no replies).
I've got an ASUS PCE-A66 wireless ac pci-e card. Had absolutely no issues with it in my old Z77 board, but I seem to be having a lot of issues with it in my new Z87 MPower MAX. System was locking up like mad when I was trying to install the drivers at first. Had to rip out the WiFi/Bluetooth/WiDi module to get the drivers installed but the system randomly hangs on boot up? Don't get the issues with the card unplugged and don't always get it with it plugged in, but there seems to be some form of conflict with it that I can't resolve. Has anyone else had any such issues with any PCI-e add in cards on this motherboard?
Specs are:
i7 4770k
MSI MPower MAX using .128 bios (will try the .131 later)
2x4GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400
Coolermaster Silent Pro Hybrid 1050w
EVGA NVidia GTX 780 SC ACX
Windows 8 Pro 64bit

Yes, old system was Win8 Pro 64 bit too and the drivers are Windows 8 certified. As I say though, I had no issues with it on the old build? Even got a replacement sent out by Amazon in case the card itself was damaged Did initially try to do a warm update of the hardware into the same OS installation but didn't play well so did a full re-install in the end. Tried standard and UEFI installs (just in case) and after a problem with my OCZ Vector 2 not being recognised I bought a new Samsung 840 Pro so was a virgin SSD installed on to as well.
I'll raise it directly with MSI but just wanted to know if anyone else had experienced anything similar with any wireless cards in this mobo.
Cheers for the reply though

Wireless card BCM4313 no connection at boot

Hi,
I have an HP Pavilion dv6 with a Broadcom BCM4313 wireless card. I use NETCFG and before the last kernel upgrade I was able to connect to my home wireless connection at boot without troubles. Now I have to do it manually and I need to try 2 or 3 times to see my connection active.
lspci -vnn
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1483]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at c3400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac
Kernel modules: bcma, wl, brcmsmac
lsmod
Module Size Used by
cpufreq_stats 3890 0
radeon 992718 0
ttm 54360 1 radeon
ipv6 290407 22
cpufreq_ondemand 6132 4
uvcvideo 64931 0
videodev 78006 1 uvcvideo
media 10437 2 uvcvideo,videodev
usbhid 35256 0
hid 81635 1 usbhid
v4l2_compat_ioctl32 8292 1 videodev
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22092 1
joydev 9895 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 55175 1
i915 707307 7
snd_hda_intel 22122 0
snd_hda_codec 77927 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
drm_kms_helper 25409 2 radeon,i915
lib80211_crypt_tkip 8506 0
drm 183380 5 radeon,ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_hwdep 6325 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 73856 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19416 1 snd_pcm
r8169 42643 0
lib80211 4158 1 lib80211_crypt_tkip
snd 57786 7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
sg 25557 0
hp_accel 13864 0
lis3lv02d 10508 1 hp_accel
i2c_i801 8187 0
serio_raw 4294 0
iTCO_wdt 12717 0
hp_wmi 7738 0
intel_agp 10904 1 i915
arc4 1410 2
btusb 11577 0
evdev 9530 9
bluetooth 138465 1 btusb
soundcore 6146 1 snd
bcma 13762 0
i2c_algo_bit 5199 2 radeon,i915
sparse_keymap 3088 1 hp_wmi
mei 31249 0
i2c_core 20133 7 radeon,videodev,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_i801,i2c_algo_bit
iTCO_vendor_support 1929 1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr 1819 0
snd_page_alloc 7121 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_ips 11213 0
psmouse 55224 0
intel_gtt 14423 3 i915,intel_agp
mii 3995 1 r8169
input_polldev 2882 1 lis3lv02d
battery 10905 0
wmi 8411 1 hp_wmi
ac 3265 0
button 4470 1 i915
brcmsmac 594624 0
thermal 7863 0
video 11228 1 i915
brcmutil 6563 1 brcmsmac
mac80211 215605 1 brcmsmac
cfg80211 160516 2 brcmsmac,mac80211
rfkill 15402 3 hp_wmi,bluetooth,cfg80211
crc_ccitt 1331 1 brcmsmac
acpi_cpufreq 5877 1
freq_table 2451 3 cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
processor 24256 1 acpi_cpufreq
mperf 1275 1 acpi_cpufreq
ext4 369556 2
mbcache 5817 1 ext4
jbd2 71074 1 ext4
crc16 1297 2 bluetooth,ext4
sr_mod 14951 0
sd_mod 28307 4
cdrom 36329 1 sr_mod
ahci 20865 3
libahci 18885 1 ahci
libata 173297 2 ahci,libahci
ehci_hcd 39511 0
scsi_mod 131482 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore 142544 5 uvcvideo,usbhid,btusb,ehci_hcd
dmesg | grep wlan0
[ 11.715805] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 13.791409] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 16.885059] wlan0: authenticate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 16.886567] wlan0: authenticated
[ 16.890100] wlan0: associate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 16.892793] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1)
[ 16.892798] wlan0: associated
[ 16.894146] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 26.697130] wlan0: deauthenticating from 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 by local choice (reason=3)
[ 87.612906] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 89.754106] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 92.849882] wlan0: authenticate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 92.851661] wlan0: authenticated
[ 92.851823] wlan0: associate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 92.854142] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1)
[ 92.854150] wlan0: associated
[ 92.855920] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 103.719958] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 105.980215] wlan0: deauthenticating from 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 by local choice (reason=3)
[ 120.237260] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 122.316759] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 125.422195] wlan0: authenticate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 125.423760] wlan0: authenticated
[ 125.423960] wlan0: associate with 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (try 1)
[ 125.426083] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 50:67:f0:ab:4f:d4 (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1)
[ 125.426090] wlan0: associated
[ 125.428085] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 136.398877] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
You could see that first I get the connection and then I lost it... for 2 or 3 times, then I could connect without problems.
ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:27772 (27.1 Kb) TX bytes:27772 (27.1 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr E0:2A:82:A2:B5:88
inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::e22a:82ff:fea2:b588/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:12484 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9606 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13841736 (13.2 Mb) TX bytes:1241490 (1.1 Mb)
iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"WLAN_A9"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: 50:67:F0:AB:4F:D4
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=19 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=40/70 Signal level=-70 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:82 Missed beacon:0
my wirelessCasa netcfg profile
CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='wep'
ESSID='WLAN_A9'
KEY='s:mykey'
IP='dhcp'
POST_UP="notify-send -u critical -i /usr/share/icons/Faenza/status/48/connect_established.png -t 15000 'Connected to WLAN_A9'"
POST_DOWN="notify-send -u critical -i /usr/share/icons/Faenza/status/48/gnome-netstatus-disconn.png -t 15000 'Connection lost'"
# Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden
#HIDDEN=yes
rc.conf
NETWORKS=(wirelessCasa)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus net-profiles net-auto-wired !network !netfs crond laptop-mode alsa slim @acpid @cups)
When I execute netcfg for the first time (after boot) I see:
#NETCFG_DEBUG=yes netcfg wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
:: wirelessCasa up [BUSY] DEBUG: status reported to profile_up as:
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up start_wpa wlan0 /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf nl80211,wext
DEBUG: wireless_up stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up Configuration generated at /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf
DEBUG: wireless_up ifup
DEBUG: wireless_up start_wpa wlan0 /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf nl80211,wext
DEBUG: wireless_up wpa_check
DEBUG: wpa_cli -p /run/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 status
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ifup
DEBUG: ethernet_up dhcpcd -qL -t 10 wlan0
DEBUG:
> DHCP IP lease attempt failed.
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: ethernet_down if_down
DEBUG: wireless_down stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: profile_up connect failed
[FAIL]
And the second one:
#NETCFG_DEBUG=yes netcfg wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
:: wirelessCasa up [BUSY] DEBUG: status reported to profile_up as:
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up start_wpa wlan0 /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf nl80211,wext
DEBUG: wireless_up stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up Configuration generated at /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf
DEBUG: wireless_up ifup
DEBUG: wireless_up start_wpa wlan0 /run/network//wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf nl80211,wext
DEBUG: wireless_up wpa_check
DEBUG: wpa_cli -p /run/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 status
DEBUG: Loading profile wirelessCasa
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up ifup
DEBUG: ethernet_up dhcpcd -qL -t 10 wlan0
DEBUG:
DEBUG: ethernet_iproute_up hostname archlap
[DONE]
I've tried to use the wl driver but it doesn't seems to work properly.
Could anyone help me please?
Thank you,
enrico

litemotiv wrote:
Hmm it seems your card now takes longer to connect, the 'deauthenticating by local choice' often means that the default timeout is reached and netcfg disconnects. You can try adding a specific timeout parameter to your netcfg profile:
TIMEOUT=60
That doesn't explain why it takes longer to connect than before, but at least you should be able to connect in 1 try again.
Hi,
thank you for your time!
I'v tried adding the timeout line to my profile but it doesn't change nothing
I could connect at 3rd try.
Any other idea?

Startup gets 'Network cable unplugged' on mini-PCI wireless card

I recently installed a Netgear DG834GT wireless router and now have an intermittent problem connecting my Tecra 9100 to it. If the 9100 has been shutdown for a while (like overnight), when I restart I always get 'Network cable unplugged' for the wireless connection. Rebooting a number of times (anything from 3 upwards) I eventually get connected to the router and all then works fine for hours. Even a quick restart at this point (i.e. once the wireless card has connected) does not cause a problem but as soon as I leave the machine shutdown for a length of time it fails again at reboot.
There are no errors in the Event log.
I am using the built in mini-PCI wireless card and have already upgraded to the latest driver.
Any ideas gratefully recieved, at the moment each morning is a 20-30 minute frustration of rebooting trying to get my connection working.
(Running Win2K Professional)

Checking other boards for help (Netgear etc.) it seems that the 'Network cable unplugged' is a common message when wireless connectivity is failing. However, to prove the point, I have disabled the other LAN card (for which I was also getting 'network cable unplugged' but as expected since it was). I still get the same issue with the wireless card, although now the reboots are slightly more predictable - it normally seems to succeed on the third reboot. I guess disabling the other card has changed the startup timing slightly and in that way made things slightly better.
Again, any other suggestions gratefully received. As this seems to be a timing issue at startup, I am suspicious that one of the other things that runs at that time is causing the problem.

Connecting a PC with an external wireless card

I have an iMac and am connected wirelessly to the Internet through the Airport Extreme. My roommate has a new Dell Laptop with Windows XP and has been connected through ethernet to the base station. She just recently purchased an external wireless card, and we can't seem to get her connected wirelessly. When searching for available networks to join on her computer, it recognizes my network and says that it has an excellent signal, but when we type in the WEP, it doesn't do anything. It does not give us an error, and it does not connect. Any idea what we are doing wrong and what we can do to fix it?

I still can't figure it out. I unchecked the option that says "enable encryption (using WEP)" and she was immediately connected. I don't think I have a huge problem leaving the network up without a password, I'm in a small residential area. Does that just mean that neighbors would be able to connect? How far does the signal generally travel? And is there any way to see the IP addresses of people connected to this specific network?

G500 Driver_Power_State_Failure problem most likely related to Wireless Card

I recently upgraded my Lenovo G500 laptop to 8.1.
After that, I've been constantly getting BSOD every time I modify some settings on my WIreless card (Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter). For instance, changing my MAC under the"Locally Administered MAC Address" causes the Wireless configuration window to stop responding, then my wireless adapter becomes permanently disabled (I try to enable it and it says that it is enabling but the adapter remains faded out and locked in a disabled state) unless I restart or power down my laptop. If I restart, the laptop hangs for 3-5 minutes and then a BSOD comes up and suggests that I look online for DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE.
I have updated the adapter as well as most, if not all outdated drivers on my laptop with the 8.1 drivers offered on Lenovo's support pages (This includes power management, BIOS, LAN, Audio, etc.). Even attempting to voluntarily disable my wireless card causes the BSOD.
As long as I don't touch/modify such settings, I have wireless internet and all seems fine but once I do what I stated above, my laptop crashes with a BSOD. I have looked up and searched about such a BSOD but my laptop has zero problems when I put it to sleep or wake it up. My laptop functions practically flawless except for when changing/modifying settings on my wireless card.
For instance, on Whocrashed.exe:
On Thu 11/7/2013 9:33:19 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\110713-17031-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x150B36)
Bugcheck code: 0x9F (0x4, 0x12C, 0xFFFFE00000EB5040, 0xFFFFD000205F8860)
Error: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that the driver is in an inconsistent or invalid power state.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time.
On Thu 11/7/2013 9:33:19 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: ntkrnlmp.exe (nt!KeBugCheckEx+0x0)
Bugcheck code: 0x9F (0x4, 0x12C, 0xFFFFE00000EB5040, 0xFFFFD000205F8860)
Error: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug check description: This bug check indicates that the driver is in an inconsistent or invalid power state.
This appears to be a typical software driver bug and is not likely to be caused by a hardware problem.
The crash took place in the Windows kernel. Possibly this problem is caused by another driver that cannot be identified at this time
On bluescreenview:
Bug check string: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE
Bug check code: 0x0000009f
Parameter 1: 00000000`00000004
Parameter 2: 00000000`0000012c
Parameter 3: ffffe000`00eb8040
Parameter 4: ffffd000`20472860
Processor: x64
Caused by driver: NETIO.SYS
Caused by address: NETIO.SYS+1ddb2
Crash address: ntoskrnl.exe+150b36
I ran SFC /scannow and it did detect corrupted files but that has been resolved using the Restorehealth command prompt. I have tried booting to safe mode, uninstalling the adapter and then updating straight to the most current 8.1 driver and that still causes the BSOD.
I'm almost certain that my wireless card probably is defective, or the laptop is defective. I'm still under warranty but I'm hoping to fix this issue before resorting to what I deem as last resorts of factory restoring the laptop or calling Lenovo support.
I am also providing minidumps, driver lists and a whole ton of useful information on my Skydrive:
http://sdrv.ms/17OIYda
Any suggestions or help on this matter would be greatly appreciated as I feel like I've exhausted all other methods.
Moderator Note; subject edited; system type added

"If I restart, the laptop hangs for 3-5 minutes and then a BSOD comes up and suggests that I look online for DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE."
I had the exact same problem on a Thinkpad Helix after upgrading to Windows 8.1, although I do not know if it was in anyway related to the wireless hardware as you described. However, I noted that in the Device Manager many wireless hardware components had been highlighted with an exclamation mark since the problem had occured (e.g. Bluetooth, Geolocation, Broadband). Here is how I fixed it:
1. I went to System Settings / Device Manager.
2. Disabled all devices that were highlighted with an exclamation mark. I noted that the Device Manager would not respond after disabling so I closed it and then chose to not wait (i.e. forced the Device Manager to close).
3. Repeated step (2.) until all devices highlighted with an exclamation mark were disabled.
4. Restarted the laptop (I don't know if I had to force the shut down via power off at that time, but it may be necessary or you wait for the BSOD).
5. Repeated step (1.) and uninstalled all the drivers of the devices disabled in steps (2.) to (3.), enabling the option to remove the driver from the system, where possible.
6. Restarted the system. This time the shutdown should only take a few seconds.
So far, everything works fine again and I cannot identify any limitations through the disabling and uninstalling of devices (esp. wireless devices do work flawlessly).
Hope this works for some of you guys out there as well. Let me know.
Good luck!
neophilos

Can't change MAC address of my wireless card on Windows XP

Dear Forum Members,
I have recently bought a notebook, Lenovo IdeaPad G550L (I haven't found section for the G series here on the forum) and would like to use its WiFi adapter (BCM4310 according to Everest) with explicitly changed MAC address. I installed the recommended driver, available from Lenovo's website, version 5.10.38.14. I tried the common way to change the MAC address, went to Control Panel -> Network Interfaces -> Broadcom Wireless Network Adapter -> Configure... -> Advanced -> Locally administered MAC address, and changed it to a different address (without ":" or any separator characters). Unfortunately this common solution won't work at all. Although, no error messages are produced when changing it (so it seems successful) my wireless router shows me the original MAC address of my integrated wifi card. Tried to restart my computer, my router, everything.
* Tried different drivers, downloaded a driver from HP which had a separate wireless configurator, Broadcom Wireless Utility. It worked like the driver from Lenovo (except this one hasn't got the utility), but I was still unable to change my MAC address.
* Tried a different driver from SoftPedia, version 5.10.79.14 (this is newer than Lenovo's), it didn't work either.
* Tried Nathan True's MACShift utility. It seemed to change the MAC address, but my router showed the original, so it didn't.
* Tried to look for official Broadcom drivers on www.broadcom.com but found nothing for BCM4310.
* Finally, I booted my alternative OS, the latest Ubuntu Linux, and used the kernel driver b43 for my wireless adapter. I tried to change my MAC address using the command ifconfig wlan0 hw ether .... and connected to my network. It worked, my router showed the changed MAC so the hardware (or the firmware) is capable of doing this by the right driver/firmware.
I tried to address Broadcom with the issue, sent them a letter like this post they replied that they are not competent, they wrote the following (I guess this was an automatically generated message because it got back in 10 seconds ) from [email protected]:
"As the chipset supplier, Broadcom provides driver support to our customers - the manufacturers of wireless devices - that ultimately provide products to end customers, such as wireless LAN vendors, cable modem vendors, and notebook providers. It is up to these manufacturers to provide product-specific drivers and software support to their end customers. Please contact the manufacturer of your wireless device for their current drivers"
Then I addressed Lenovo with the problem, their answer:
"Dear ******,
Thank you for contacting Lenovo, the makers of ThinkPad and ThinkCentre products. As I understand, you have purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad G550L and would like to use its WiFi adapter (BCM4310 according to Everest) with explicitly change MAC address.and you would like to know is there an official driver for Windows XP that allows you this basic feature like b43 in Linux. We apologize,Please do speak with our Idea pad technical Team at 877-453-6686 Option 1-2-1-2 for further assistance.
If you have further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at 866-42-THINK (84465) option number 2. We will be happy to assist at that time.
Once again, thank you for contacting Lenovo.
Sincerely,
Lenovo Websales/CustServe"
So this means I should call them and spend extra money for phone bill of international calls because of their fault of providing a basic feature that is to be expected from every single wireless card in the market. Should I believe that a guide over the phone is more efficient than a step-by-step solution or a link to an alternative driver? I'm getting kind of disappointed. At least they have understood (or copy-pasted) my problem, dutch comfort though.
Any ideas? Anyone experienced the same problem and solved it? Is there an official (or even unofficial) driver for this device for Windows XP that allows me this basic feature (like b43 in Linux)?
Thanks in advance,
str4ngS

Yes, I have posted this thread to different forums after I realized that Lenovo "customer care" is not likely to help me out and even wirelessforums.org members couldn't come up with any ideas for days, that's why. I have already written that helper applications like SMAC (or etherchange or macshift) don't work, because they do the same thing in the system as I change it in the driver panel, so they use the same method which simply does not work.
Locked? Definitely not. If yes, why can I change the MAC of my adapter under Ubuntu Linux using b43 open-source driver if it's really locked? Or you mean it's locked from software, because Lenovo or Broadcom didn't want their users to change their MACs or they just forgot to release a fully-functional driver? Well, then I would like to have a driver in which it's not locked, because this is a basic feature of my adapter of which the hardware is capable.
I have already contacted Broadcom, see their (automatically-generated) answer in my initial post, but I will try to do that again with more foresight.

Snow Leopard and my alltel wireless card do not get along.

I recently purchased an alltel wireless card for my MacBook that connects to the internet fine, but appears to be messing with the operating system . . . or something. Alltel said they write their software according to the information they received from Apple. Apple says they send the operating system to Alltel, and they have no way to fix my problem. Can anyone out there help me?
It seems that if I shut down my MacBook after every time I use the card, I am OK.
If I use it more than once without shutting down, things start to go wrong. For example, sometimes the keyboard stops working. The mouse is fine.
More often, I disconnect from the Quicklink (alltel) software, pull the card, only it seems the software has not truly disconnected, as the Menu Bar ceases to work, the colored wheel spins and spins, and I cannot shut down my MacBook, not even w/the "3 magic keys," unless I press the power button. A complete shutoff always solves any problems.
I did check Disk Utility and found that many disk permissions did not match and repaired them. This did not fix the problem.
My local Mac "fixer" said she had the same problem with another customer and had to re-install the operating system, etc., etc., but would have to charge me a minimum of $70. She has no idea why this worked or if it will work with my MacBook. I do not want to spend $70 with no guarantee, or even probability, that the problem will be solved.
Any ideas?

Hi Voodooflea, I have experienced exactly the same problem as you describe here. The solution I found was to simply NOT use the QuickLink Mobile software to connect. Rather, just go into your System Preferences and then to the Network section. If it isn't already there, create a new connection with the modem, putting in the appropriate numbers for the telephone and account name. Then, connect from within the Network system preferences and you probably won't have the lock-up of your computer. It seems that I only have this problem when I use the QuickLink Mobile software to connect. Let us know if this works for you.

MBP having Kernel Panic (Crash) all the time due to Wireless card firmware.

Hi all,
I am desperately needing helps from the experts here now. I have the latest santa rosa Macbook Pro. It has been crashing on me lately due to the wireless card firmware. I have run all the latest updates from software update including the AirPort.Atheros firmware update. I have tried to reformat the hard drive and installed a fresh and clean Mac OSX. The crash still persists before AND after the AirPort.Atheros firmware update. I mean I was not having this issue when I first bought the computer while others were whining all over the internet about this problem. When the fix came out, everyone
s problems seem to be solved but my problem arose . A recent Kernel panic crash log is as following:
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0035D113): freeing free mbuf
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x364539f8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cc0a4 0x36453a1c 0x131de5 0x0)
0x36453a38 : 0x35d113 (0x3ecf98 0x0 0x10 0x0)
0x36453a58 : 0x35d4b3 (0x4884fe00 0x0 0x246 0x1)
0x36453a78 : 0x51b56695 (0x4884fe00 0x0 0x20 0x4ee1d00)
0x36453be8 : 0x51b569d4 (0x3493c2c8 0x3493e148 0x36453c58 0x1416ad)
0x36453d38 : 0x51b62d85 (0x3493f004 0x0 0x4b285c 0x4c2ec070)
0x36453eb8 : 0x51b33d9a (0x3493c4c0 0x51bb8da4 0x36453ed8 0x19e23a)
0x36453f48 : 0x51b324a9 (0x4ce1004 0x0 0x36453fc8 0x19a001)
0x36453f78 : 0x13d7d9 (0x4ce1494 0x4ce1004 0x0 0x0)
0x36453fc8 : 0x19ad2c (0x0 0x0 0x19e0b5 0x5b3b3e0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros(235.9.3)@0x51b31000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.1)@0x4c63c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.2)@0x465e6000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(162.1)@0x4c73b000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386
A way to know that the crash is gonna happen is that the internet stops working and as long as I click on the wifi icon on the menu bar, The crash occurs. Could someone please help to put me out of misery please . Thank you so much for reading this and any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Have a nice day.

i would try this in a test user to see if the issue occurs (more than likely it will)also i would reset the smc and the pram
(test user) go to the apple then system preferences then accounts then in the bottom right hand corner you will see there is a lock click it and put in the password for the computer then click ok then click the plus sign and create the test user make sure that you check the box that says allow user to admin the account then click create account (if a message says something about automatic login click keep) then click the apple and log out then login to the other user.
(smc) you shut the computer down then you unplugg all the cables from the computer then you take the battery out with the battery out you hold the power button down for five seconds then you put the battery back then plug in the ac adapter then start the comptuer up and then plug everything else back in
(pram) you restart the computer holding down the apple option P and R keys till you hear the start up chime twice
if that does not work i would boot to the install disk one holding c and then click utilites from the top and select the mac hd and then verify disk and repair disk
if the issue still occurs then i would back all of the information on the computer up and erase and install
hope this helps

Just got new T530 with wrong wireless card. Which model of Intel 6300?

Hey all, been surfing the google god for a few days but can't seem to find a secure answer that makes me happy. Just got a new T530 model 2359 laptop for my new job. Other then one stuck pixel that refuses to go away im pretty happy with it as I upgraded the CPU to the i5 3320 cpu model with the nvidia NVS 5400m GPU so it can power dual 24" monitors on my new Lenovo dock.
What sucks is that my manager got me the wrong wifi card, the standard thinkpad 1x1 b/g/n wireless card so I can't connect to 5ghz and or dual band routers like I have at my home which I really want for reliable and fast wireless cause I will be using it a lot around my work building as I do IT support for users so I wanna be able to use all the antenna's to help my range.
I took the laptop apart and I do see a third wire not connected to the thinkpad 1x1 mini card so should be able to use 3 antenna's on my T530? My big question is which 6300 card would the correct one for my T530? I know apparently there are "white label" cards from IBM that don't work in certain machines but considering I'm putting it into a IBM, I would think I would be ok?
Also, I do have an HD webcam buit in and I've heard that apparently some Thinkpad models you can't use three antenna and have the webcam working?
I'm curious if this white label centrino 6300 is the one I need
http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Ultimate-n-6300agn-802-11a-572511-001/dp/B008UOQVYC/ref=sr_1_1?s=elec...
Or is it this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-6235AN-HMWWB-Centrino-Advanced-N-Bluetooth/dp/B007QXLIWI/ref=sr_1_3?s=el...
Thanks for any clarrification on this

@Fr0stTr0n...
You may wish to try the P/N that Z and Rich referenced here:
http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/default/PromotionDisplay?promoName=pa...
Regards.
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Wireless card and kernel panic

So for no apparent reason my airport has failed in my powerbook 17" 1.5 w/1.5. It just has no strength to start and seems to loose juice as time in a given session passes. so I threw a wireless card I had in to see how it would fare. The good news is that it works great but the bad news was that I often had to restart it up to 10x to get it to start instead of just going to the kernel panic screen. The functionality is so hobbled without the card that I'm willing to do this every time I restart but it would be great to make everything sing again.The card is a Sonnet card and they have no functional plugin to fix the issue. I'm running 10.4.9 solidly with no other issues and no other problems once i get a clean startup. Any ideas?

Kernel panics are not good news as my FAQ* explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
If they happen only with the Sonnet card, ask them for updated drivers.
If they happen with no Sonnet card, it sounds like the router you are using needs a new firmware update. See my FAQ* on Wireless:
http://www.macmaps.com/WIFI1048.html
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

[using iwl3945, it's FAST] ipw3945d fails to detect my wireless card

I have a laptop with an Intel 3945ABG wireless card and I have been using the ipw3945d daemon which has been working great. However, on a package update somewhere, it stopped working. When I try to run /etc/rc.d/ipw3945d
[max@pwn ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/ipw3945d start
:: Starting IPW3945d [BUSY]
2008-02-13 14:54:01: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
[DONE]
However ...
[max@pwn ~]$ lspci | grep ABG
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
This is the first time I have seen Arch do this. What should I do?
Last edited by synthead (2008-02-14 06:50:53)

I have it blacklisted.
update: I tried just using the iwl3945 kernel module and it works fine with a little bit of configuration to my network scripts. Actually, it works excellent. It seems a hell of a lot faster than the ipw3945d. Before, sites took a moment to load, but now the forums, as well as djforums.com (another forum I go to), YouTube, etc., come up in literally about a second!

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