Hp dv4000 with Intel 2200BG can't stay connected.

T'was a dark and stormy night (with hail as a bonus), when suddenly
the door to my palatial office flew open revealing and irate customer
bearing his brand new HP dv4000 laptop. It seems his wireless
connection was screwing up connecting to some (not all) hot spots and
access points.

"I can stay connected anywhere between 1 minutes and 10 minutes before
it disconnects. HP support was no help. Drop everything and fix it."
He fumed waving his chequebook.

Sure, I'll even skip dinner if the price is right. Anyway, I checked
for the usual screwups (windows updates, power savings, WPA re-auth
timing) but everything looked ok. The wireless card was an Intel
2200BG which I've used before without incident. I tried switching
between WZC and Proset, but the disconnect problem was still there. I
did notice that it would stay connected to my WRT54Gv3 (Broadcom
chipset) much longer than it would to a WRT54GC (Marvel chipset).
Weird(tm).

So, I went to the Intel web pile, and downloaded the Intel network
connection identification tool:
| http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...7&DwnldID=8061
Nobody but Intel would require a program to decode the driver version.
Anyway, it was 9.0.??? which was not the latest greatest.

So, I downloaded Proset 10.1.0.13 at 82MBytes compressed. Every
language and regulatory authority tossed into one archive. Sigh.
| http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ProductID=2259
Uncompress (wait 5 minutes) and install. Instead of WZC, it was now
running Proset 10. No disconnect problems with any of the office (or
neighbors) wireless access points. Fixed.

Of course, during the inevitable arguement over who's gonna pay for
dinner, expedite fees, and trashing my Friday evening, the power went
out. Oh well.

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Jeff Liebermann (E-Mail Removed)
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