Intel ProSet 2200BG problems
Many notebook computers and Tablet PCs are currently shipping with the Intel ProSet wireless chipset that is designed to work closely with the Pentium M and provide good power management features to help conserve battery life for these mobile devices. The Intel ProSet 2200BG is the chipset that is currently shipping in many such devices and there are many users reporting problems making and maintaining wireless connections with this chipset. I have used three different devices that contained the 2200BG and I have had a lot of problems maintaining connections to 802.11g networks. The 2200BG supports both 802.11b & g networks and in my experience the 2200BG works fine with "b" networks but has a lot of problems working with "g" connections. The problems I have experienced were so pronounced on all three computers that working with the faster "g" networks was impractical, as my device would drop the connection after just a few minutes.
The Intel 2200BG is the chipset in my HP tc1100 Tablet PC and I have experienced nothing but problems with it from day one. I have two WiFi networks in my house, one a "g" and the other a "b" and I have been unable to use the faster one at all. When I am running around the city and encounter a "g" network I am in trouble as I cannot work with it reliably. Rob Bushway reported problems with the 2200BG in his Motion LE1600 and when he installed the latest drivers from Intel and set the Intel power management to maximum performance his problems were greatly curtailed and he is no longer complaining about it. Unfortunately for me this solution didn’t improve things at all on the tc1100 and I have been stuck until today. I received a replacment W500 WLAN card from HP this morning that does not contain the Intel chipset and my problems with "g" networks was immediately corrected. This W500 card supports a/b/g networks but since I only use b & g my only goal was to clear up the problems working with "g" networks. I have been using it all day with my faster WiFi network and it has performed flawlessly, and the maximum range is greatly increased as well. I do not know who makes this card for HP but I heartily recommend it to any tc1100 users experiencing WiFi connection difficulties.
Hmm, I’ve been using the 2200BG in my laptop for more than a year now and I haven’t experienced the problem you’re describing.
I did have some issues with it when using the PRO/Set software that Intel provides to manage wireless networks. I then uninstalled it and downloaded the standalone drivers from IBM’s site and I just use XP’s wireless configuration options now. Works flawlessly. Just thought I’d let you know. Did you try it without Intel’s software?
I have experienced the same problems on three different computers, including the HP Tablet I’m using now. When I started researching this I found several forums where a number of users are complaining about the exact same problems. Getting rid of the ProSet s/w doesn’t make any difference to me. The difference is definitely the new h/w.
Even if you don’t have issues with your WiFi with this chipset, it might be worth a look to upgrade your drivers & software. My Toshiba M205 Tablet (purchased on 12/31/04) had drivers for the chipset dated 1/4/2004. The drivers were a full major and a few minor versions behind. I don’t have a “g” network yet, but I decided to upgrade the drivers. The new software includes functionality I didn’t have before, most notably: support for LEAP encryption, which is used extensively on Cisco-powered WiFi networks. I don’t see any difference just yet in terms of performance, but at least I have new functionality.
BTW: Barb’s new HP DV4170 has the same chipset, however it has fairly recent drivers and software. We’ll see what happens when we get our “g” router in the near future.
From the last post you made about this, I was able to get a good driver. It seems like there are many different hardware versions of Intels wireless board, and everytime they make a new rev of software, a previous hardware version fails.
In your last post, after following that link, and another link, to the actual form, a user posted a beta version from Intel which was not available on Intel’s website yet. That version has worked great for me. It is about how it should work, enough so, that I will not upgrade to any later version. My problem is, the card is integrated inside the computer, and there is no other option to expand it (no PCMCIA slots.)
I found the best way to test this card is to transfer a large file (>100 MB) to another computer on the network. If the card is not working, the transmition speed will crawl.
I have a M205 just like Kevin Tofel and was getting really poor reception (when I could get any at all) from my G network (my neighbors B came in fine though). I don’t know why I never thought of upgrading my driver before, but after doing so today, my G reception has been fabulous! Thanks guys.
Great post JK…did you see any info in your research on the Thinkpad a/b/g cardbus option for the x41 tablet pc, vs. the standard intel 2200bg that it otherwise comes with?
thanks.
I have an LE1600 and I have the self-same problems with 802.11/g.
I have updated the drivers, installed the Intel software, uninstalled it etc etc. I have also tried switching the ‘polling’ off (most routers don’t support it) so the card is always running at full power. None of this works properly.
This looks like one of those odd problems that will suddenly ‘go away’ when Intel finally discovers what is wrong…..
I’ve replaced the mini-pci wi-fi card in other notebooks in the past. What is a good replacement for the 2200BG? And does Intel OEM for other manufacturers cards?
I had same problems. PSP (power save polling) was the problem.
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-006205.htm
“power save polling was the problem…”
Bingo! Thanks!
This setting is buried deep, but just
goes to show what a little tweaking
and a KB search can do.
James, I’ve used that same chipset in my laptop for many months now and am able to connect to my network at work and at home at 54mbs without problems. I do know that there were some problems with ProSet and some Linksys routers though (that is supposed to be fixed by a firmware update to the router). I wonder if that would fix any of the problems people are experiencing.
I don’t know what problems people are having with these chipsets, but I have both a dell laptop and a toshiba laptop with the 2200 and both have excellent range and never drop a wireless connection. The only problem I have is with one of my client’s Linksys. But I don’t use linksys myself.
I have a Zyxel modem for ADSL2+ 24Mbit and a Dell Inspiron 6000. To be wireless I have tried router Netgear MR814v2, D-link DI-624+ and Dell Truemobile 2300. Only Dell Truemobile works without problem. Useing D-link and Netgear my Dell with ProWiresless bring them to drop the connection. Scanning the transmitting one could see a drop of signal-level nearly each 6 minute. Other laptop with not this chipset works good, but not when I start my laptop.
Goran
I am having the same problem with my 2200 mini PCI that came with my Dell. I detect the network but cannot join. I have installed the latest Intel driver with no luck. I’ve tried switching to a lower channel, I’ve tried maxing the power in the card properties settings on power management (PSP). I’ve tried reseating the card, using either the windows or intel interface to declare the settings, ensured the router is not limiting the access slots, tried connecting insecurely and securely, no luck. I have been able to access a public access point. My next attempt will be to upgrade the linksys firmware. Maybe that will work. In either case, this is driving me crazy.
Just tried updating router firmware. Didn’t work.
I have the exact same problem, with Proset software I can see the network that my wireless Netgear MR814v2 sends out, but when I try to access the network it just says “unable to connect”. My card however (intel pro/wireless 2200 bg) does pick up signals and connects successfully to routers however. Also, when I first bought the router it actually worked for about 5 minutes and then since I havent had any luck connecting… It is a really annoying problem.
We have Intel 2200BG Cards working with Cisco Access Points.We have B and G Ap’s running leap.Until recently we have only had Cisco clients in our laptops and they have worked perfectly.Since the Intel clients came on to our network we have had nothing but problems,dropping connection and giving strange errors.I have upgraded the aps and upgraded the firmware on the Intel clients also.Anyone any ideas?
Latest update: I tried replacing the Intel card with an MSI card, MP54G4. I still have the same problems. I spoke to Linksys tech support and they blame the card settings, weren’t able to help. MSI tech support isn’t around at this time. Some people have found a solution by taping two pins of the card over with scotch tape! http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-18046-Toshiba-Satellite-1135S1552-WiFi-Networking-Problem.html
I tried that with no luck.
Hi,
I think there is something wrong with the hardware and it seems that intel isn’t interessted in fixing that or recall the product.
Please do the following:
If you have had problems with your adapter and you have spend many hours in trying to fix the problem.
Let intel know that you are not accepting malhardware like the 2200BG bunk.
Ive tested many drivers, wlan with and without WEP-Encryption, different channels and the CAM-Mode. Nothing of that worked. There must be something wrong with the drivers or the hardware.
I’ve written to intels tech-support. Im waiting tensely for a answer.
Best regards!
Ok, got my mini pci card to work. The MSI one. But it only worked once I changed authentication under advanced wireless settings from Shared Key to auto. Then I’ll implement MAC filtering instead of using WEP.
Also the new MSI card only works when I implement the scotch tape fix on pins 11 and 13 from my previous post. Go figure. But hey it finally works. Good luck everyone!
i really need help i have an intel proset in the computer and its spose 2 give off at the most 100m of connection but i have 2 sit right near the box to even get rubbish connection i really need help please…… im really confused on wot im doin wrong or just not doin thanx for ur help
from a very confused and in need of help person lol
Thanks for the posts. I have had big problems with proset 2200BG since taking delivery of a new laptop. I have solved them by ripping out the Intel Proset software , drivers and all. Windows then went searching for driver for the hardware and found an older version 8.0 and auto installed it. Bingo no more problems. I suggest regressing back to an older driver might help.
Keith
I’d like to add my experiences. I have a noname notebook with this chipset. I run Linux and Windows. Both experience the same problems: packet loss, varying ping times. I think it is a firmware problem. Even the latest drivers do not solve it.
My AP is a USR8054, and I have to reboot it twice a day since I bought this notebook.
There are two ways of solving all my problems: setting the AP to 11Mbps (works the best), disabling power save features in the software.
On the disabling the features in the software: I have a button on my laptop to go into silent mode. If I use that, the problems are back.
I think everyone is right in thinking that PSP is the culprit here, we’ll probably just have to wait until the manufacturers get their act together.
Ron
I have a IBM T30 with 2200BG card, and my girlfriend has an Acer Aspire laptop with built-in Intel 2200 chipset. For a year we’ve fought with the connectivity – BOTH laptops have been practically unusable. The latest drivers have always been installed. I’ve tried Intel Proset software and the Windows’s own – neither make Intel work properly.
Typically 2200 cards can maintain a fast connection for a few minutes to my 3Com OfficeConnect Wireless Access Point, and then I have to connect again. If the speed goes down, it never ever goes up. The same happens at my friend’s place, with a different access point. And with both laptops.
My friend also has a house full of IBM laptops with different wireless pcmcia cards, with various chipsets – none of them Intel – and all of them work. Only my miniPCI 2200BG has major problems.
For a long time I blamed the wrong tree, thinking it was my 3Com Access point, but now I’m convinced it’s the Intel.
-Fernis
Helsinki, Finland
I have exactly the same probel with my new toshiba m45 laptop.
I have a Toshiba Satellite M60 with Intel Wireless PRO 2200BG Adapter built in. The same problems. Signal strength ist fine, but the MBit go from 54MBit to 1MBit, and then it searches for Access Points (Scan) and the Ping is very bad. Absolutely not working with Online Games (Lags).
And: The PROSet Software only works with WPA TKIP when the Cisco Options are disabled, but they are turned on when installing. When turning the Energy Options low, the Routerconnection is lost after some minutes. Newest drivers installed Intel PRO Wireless 9.0.3.0 ! What can I do, to have always 54MBit Bandwith.
I have been now running the PROset 9.0.3.0 software for 3 days (T30, 2200BG miniPCI), and things seem to have been solved. For the first time ever I’ve had no problems for hours… days, even! Full 54mbps all the time. My friend’s Acer Aspire with 2200 chipset also has worked flawlessly after the installation (for two days now), which it never did before – but she never used Intel PROset before, whereas I’ve mostly been using it.
Two different wireless access points, two different machines, two problems solved. We both use WAP, TKIP, No Cisco extensions.
Worrying that some people still have issues with driver version…
System: Sony Vaio FS 690 2.13GHz, XP home edition, 1 gig ram with an Intel Pro 2915 ABG, newest iTunes as my media server, ambit wireless cable main router, Airport Express wireless hub linked to internal network and linked via 3.5 optical Toslink cable to a my Denon 3805 AV receiver, HP PS 2710 all in one wireless printer, Pioneer PDP 4350 plasma, B & W 5.1 custom speaker set up with rear in walls, front satellites and PV1 subwoofer.
I had problems with intermittent pauses and issues that decreased my wifi speed. I would loose connectivity or my speed would decrease to 1mbps. After different wireless configs including using my airport express as my main wireless hub instead of my ambit router, there were still problems. Repairing my network in XP would help for a little while.
This turned out to be independent of the airport express and my wireless router which I exchanged. This Intel/XP wireless card software error is brought out with heavy wireless traffic via streaming or testing your network speed with speakeasy.
I found a Remedy! upgrade Intel Pro 2915 ABG driver from 9.0.1.9 to 9.0.3.0. Other intel wireless drivers will be improved by this too.
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=9563&ProductID=1784
Also load the improved Intel software to manage wireless networking instead of the Microsoft client in XP. You can see other wireless networks and what channel thay are on and block the chance of connecting to these networks.
My wireless card works perfectly now with my system. Constant 54 mbps!! No more pauses and my Airport express wireless digital audio is amazing with never a pause! I get 44.1 khz PCM to my Denon reciever so sound quality is much better than the analog 3.5 to right and left inputs. See for yourself @ http://stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple/
Issue 2: Power meter disappears from system tray. Cure My Computer/Network Places/Hide Icons for UPnP devices. I have no ideas how this works but it does.
Good luck with these bugs.
Had the same problem connecting to my D-Link router even after updating the software. It kept giving the message of being unable to connect. It was fixed by decreasing the RTS threshold by 100 and decreasing the frag threshold by 100. This seems to give little decrease in performance
I just bought an NEC Versa and it also has a 2200BG. I had many problems connecting to a Netgear WPN824 (108Mb) Wireless Router.
If I configured as an open AP it worked fine. As soon as i enabled WEP it would try to connect and then disconnect.
As sugegsted I updated to the latest drivers (9.0.3.0) and as teh drivers were installing it instantly connected.
In the readme it says that this version fixes WEP issues.
Thanks for your direction.
How were you able to get a W500 WLAN card from HP? Is this card mini PCI or PCIMCIA? I am having nothing but trouble with my Intel 2200bg and I could not get HP to even talk to me about getting a different mini PCI card than the one which came installed. You can’t buy an aftermarket card because HP blocks their use in the bios; my computer won’t even boot with one installed.
Jimmie, you can find the mini-PCI WLAN card at this link:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/tabletpc/options/wireless.html
Also note that this card ONLY works on the tc1100, NOT the tc1000.
I installed the 9.0.3.0 driver and now I get 1.1Mbps when testing against my ISP test ADSL2+ server (12Mbps connection). This compares to 0.7Mbps that I got with the previous driver, and is still poor compared to the 9.5Mbps I get hardwired to the router, or the 7Mbps from my other PCs (wirelessly throught the same router to the same test server).
RECALL!!!
Hi, I have a new Dell Latitude D810 laptop with Intel Pro 2200 BG wireless card for my work. I am going crazy. I need a permanent connection to the internet and it is dropping me every 30 to 45 min. I tried new versions of driver with and without Intelsoftware, with and without power management…. What can I do? I am complaining by Dell but they say, they are hearing that for the first time and it is a great card!
Thanks for any help
Hi, I do have the Dell Inspiron 6000 having the same problem of connection dropping… I have reinstalled the drivers from intel site issue resolved
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?&DwnldID=9563&ProductID=1784
I have problem with Intel PROset/wirelwss software version 9 too.my device would drop the connection after just a few minutes.But when I change to use vertion 8(old vertion),it works perfectly!!
ATTENTION: ANYONE WITH THE INTEL PROSET 2200BG WIRELESS PROBLEM.
After trying a whole lot of stuff I found a solution that should work with every computer. Download an old version of the intel driver from this site and install it: http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/mobile/S6210_WLAN_INTEL_V8.0.12.9000_XP.EXE
It seems to disable to whole Power Save Polling feature and makes your internet nice and stable (and a little less battery-efficient). I am not sure whether this driver also works with the Intel 2915ABG chipset, but I imagine it may well do so.
Enjoy!
ATTENTION: ANYONE WITH THE INTEL PROSET 2200BG WIRELESS PROBLEM.
After trying a whole lot of stuff I found a solution that should work with every computer. Download an old version of the intel driver from this site and install it: http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/….12.9000_XP.EXE
It seems to disable to whole Power Save Polling feature and makes your internet nice and stable (and a little less battery-efficient). I am not sure whether this driver also works with the Intel 2915ABG chipset, but I imagine it may well do so.
Enjoy!
Those old driver’s seemed to work very well for me on a TC1100 in a WPA protected Bluesocket network.
Awesome! The old 8.0 driver from Fujitsu fixed this problem with the 2200BG card in my Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC. Night and day difference. After fighting this for two weeks I can finally sleep again!
I can confirm that the old driver from the fijitsu site works. As soon as the driver was installed my wireless connection was up and running again. I have a LE1600 connecting to a Belkin wireless voip router.
But Have you install its prowireless lan software or only drivers?
thanks..~
the driver is:
http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/mobile/S6210_WLAN_INTEL_V8.0.12.
My question is if you have solve this problem by installing the 8.0 fuji driver BUT Have you install its prowireless lan software to contrl wireless lan or only install drivers?
thanks..~
the driver is:
http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/mobile/S6210_WLAN_INTEL_V8.0.12.
My Dell Lattitude has a 2200BG wireless and it has worked superior to many other freinds laptops at different times being the best receiver of signals … it does however drop a weak signal all the time …
Sometime recently as an adobe acrobat reader update hijacked my machine and it froze ,, my wireless disappeared … I cannot even locate the microsoft client wireless managere which my computer has also ,, ,Used to be an icon for it but I have no idea where to find it … I know I have the 2200BG (I’ve even uninstalled and installed a couple times ) but the intel wireless window says no supported wireless network adapters available in the system …when I tried to update the driver it updated then said device will not function properly … Anyone have a clue ??? Feedback will be most appreceiated … Thanx ,, matthew
To MinistryOfTruth ,Andrew ,Andy,Mike :
I have a question to ask…the following are the details:
My question is if you have solve this problem by installing the 8.0 fuji driver. Have you install its prowireless lan software to let INTEL to contrl wireless lan or only install drivers?
thanks..~
the driver is:
http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/mobile/S6210_WLAN_INTEL_V8.0.12.
and I have send you a e-mail,But haven’t received any reply…
have the mail system gone crazy?….
To MinistryOfTruth ,Andrew ,Andy,Mike :
I have a question to ask…the following are the details:
My question is if you have solve this problem by installing the 8.0 fuji driver. Have you install its prowireless lan software to let INTEL to contrl wireless lan or only install drivers?
thanks..~
the driver is:
http://www.fujitsupc.com/downloads/mobile/S6210_WLAN_INTEL_V8.0.12.
and I have send you a e-mail,But haven’t received any reply…
have the mail system gone crazy?….
I have a NEC Versa M540 and I am just in discussion with NEC now to try and get the Intel 2200 BG Wireless card replaced under warranty.
What a screw up…. I have the latest Intel drivers 9.0.3.9, it connects fine at 802.11b no worries at all, but 802.11g even when i have explicitly set 802.11g only it connects at 11 mbps. On two different wireless networks using different devices.
I put it down to a shonky card by Intel – prety amazing when you do a web search – so many people have this problem.
Sam
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SOLUTION FOR ACER TRAVELMATE 4102 AND INTEL 2200BG WIRELESS CARDS:
I had the same problems with a Acer TravelMate 4102, in the end I had 5 identical laptops with same software and Windows builds, and event the same drivers. But just one of the laptops wouldn’t work no matter what I tried.
(I was testing it on a Wireless G network, ran over a RADIOUS server).
In the end I got it working by using the IBM drivers, for their thinkpads. Apparently doing this can cause issues at POST but i didnt experience anything like that.
I seems that either Intel or Acer are REALLY dodgy at making drivers (and supporting their hardware).
But that was what i found, and the conclusion I came to after about 3 days working on it. (My organisation has over 3000 of these laptops, so it was important to work out the issue).
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I had the same problem. I’ve been using an old Linksys router/WAP (bought both over 5 years ago.) They’ve worked flawlessly. Swapped in a dLink 624, hardwired machines worked fine, couldn’t get the laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600 with the dreaded Intel card) to work. I downloaded and installed the 8.0 driver, got right on (unencrypted). It drops the conncetion occasionally, then picks it backup. I’ll run it for a while like this, then add in the encryption and see what happens. Thanks to those on this forum for the advice.
Joe
With a Toshiba Tecra A4, accessing the internet (BT Broadband) through an Apple Airport Express and a DLINK 300T Modem I had nothing but trouble. Sometimes it would work for hours, and other days it would work for minutes.
I was very frustrated.
Upgrading the 2200 driver to version 9.0.3.9 solved the problems.
I downloaded from the Intel site and ONLY installed the driver and not the other software. I can’t roll-back my driver, but why would I want to, now that my problem is fixed.
Thanks for all the info…without it I wouldnt have been able to fight fair with Dell. I had recently purchased a new laptop from DEll with Intels crappy 2200BG. I had all the same problems…Dell replaced with another Intel and had same problems..I called Dell and told them to replace with something other than Intel and received a Dell/broadcom wireless card. PROBLEM SOLVED!
ANOTHER FIX that seems to work on Dell D810!
The problem is the dumb intel pro software that is distributed from Dell. I had the same problem. Here is what I did and so far (24 hrs) the connection has not been dropped.
Uninstall all intel pro stuff from add/remove software. Uninstall intel wireless driver from device manager. Reboot. XP will detect and isntall the intel pro drivers (only) that was on the machine and the wireless will comeup fine. You wont get the intel wireless management s/w, but that sucks anyways and causes connections to drop. Although I downloaded 9.0.3 version from intel website, I am yet to install it. Seems like there is no need to.
A big THANK YOU to Ron Arts! After 2 days of pure frustration and hours on the phone with Dell tech support, my Inspiron XPS has wireless connection. I had tried all the other suggestions, what finally made it work was setting to 11mpbs.
I have a DI-624 (rev.C) and a DELL D610 that came with Intel 2200BG Proset/Wireless.
I used to have problems everytime I tried WPA, even with the last Intel driver installed (9.0.3.9) and the last official D-LINK firmware (2.70).
However, using WEP worked great, even though it’s not recommended.
Now that I have installed the beta firmware 2.71 from D-Link’s FTP site, I’m able to use any type of WPA, including WPA2-AES (CCMP) and the disconnect problems that I used to have in the router (even if I was LAN connected) seem to be fixed (so far).
So, if there is anybody out there having problems with DI-624 and WPA and/or connection drops, try beta firmware 2.71 for rev.C. It seems to fix the problem between this router and Intel Centrino.
Here is the FTP site for Rev.C:
ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di624_revC/Firmware/
DI-624 Firmware Release Notes
Firmware: 2.71b10
Hardware: C3
Date: Sep 29, 2005
Problems Resolved:
1. Added support for Wake on LAN
2. Fix Centrino Issue
3. Update Help Section
4. Add WMM
5. Fix JumpStart Issue
I have same problem with Dell D810 and Intel Pro 2200GB connecting to my Linksys MIMO router at home. It will not connect at all. If I put my old Dlink PCMCIA card in it works fine all beit on b band not g. I have spoken to Linksys and Dell both claim no probbs. From what I have read on this and other sites it has to be the Intel Wireless Card.
Do you have the last driver for both, your Linksys and Intel Proset? … The driver for Intel should be 9.0.3.9 with the Intel software version 10.1.0.3.
Have you tried different encryption methods (WPA, WEP… ?, when I was having problems I couldn’t use WPA, but WEP-128 worked good.
And I thought I was the only one to have trouble with this da_n Intel 2200BG, It came with my Toshiba Qosmio G15, the Toshiba software “ConfigFree” is worse than worthless. I have managed to dispose of that trash, still I have yet to get any software to work reliably, Proset gave a msg saying I needed either 9.0.2.x or 9.0.3.x , once I locate either I’ll try it. I have read the remarks and will give some a try if the standard Intel drivers don’t work, I have wasted enough time on 2200BG. Comments – suggestions are welcome.
Same problem on Dell Inspiron 6000 with Intel 2200BG. Updated to Intel SW 10.1.0.3 as wireless was not connecting to any wep protected networks. stayed on “acquiring ip address” then crapped out.
I tried entering the complete wep key instead of the pass phrase … and BINGO!! network up and going.
how can the problem be so simple that intel can’t get the correct key generation algorithm????
hope it helps others in the same world of frustration.
I was having issues with 2200BG on Inspiron 600M for the last year or so and I was using the external card for wireless connectivity.
A week back, I installed the latest driver from Dell web-site which didn’t fix the issue either.
However, based on another post I uninstalled the “Dell Quickset” today morning and voila, the connection works great.I didn’t have a single disconnect for the last 8 hours or so.
Hope this helps
Yeah the 2200 sucks. Finally got DELL to ship me a 1370 card to replace it. i know it’s a downgrade but the intel doesn’t work the way it should. Yes with some routers it works fine, but not with all routers. With my SMC it didn’t work very well. Works much better with my Trendnet, but still when I’m mobile, such as on campus, I need reliable connectivity.
I have a Toshiba Satellite M35 and all of a sudden an my system crashes. The error message states an online crash. When I send the report to the microsoft online crash analysis it says the error is caused by: Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 2200BG adapter software (w22n51.sys). I was told by toshiba to restore my system with my restore cd. Unfortunately, I am unbale to find my restore cd for this. I was told by intel to download latest driver, to no prevail. Is there anything I can do before giving it to a tech to which will cost me a $100 just to have them look at it. I understand if I need to do that which is no problem, I just want it to exhaust all options first. Thanks for any and all replies.
I have the same problem. My laptop is an asus m6s00va, with an intel pro/wireless 2200/2915abg. I’ve tried drivers 9.0.3.9, 9.0.4.8 from intel as well as the suggested 8.0…, but there are still problems. Driver 8.0… seemed to work ok, but now I can ping the gate, but I have no access to the network from there.
If anyone have some suggestions, I’d really appreciate them. Thanks.
Hi, the problem i have i don’t know if it has been solved, please help. I have a laptop with the card 2200BG. The wireless connection is detected but i cannot join it. It seems that it is a problem with the WPA configuration, because i can connect to other nets, i tried to update the driver from intel’s page and also to install the driver 8.0 but still no luck… anyone has an idea??
Saaval:
Are you sure that the problem is related to WPA. I’m a beginner in wifi, but couldn’t it be related to the type of wireless network? My card seems to have problems with 802.11g, but not with a or b.
might seem strange but i had the same problem, which wasnt resolved by the latest drivers. only 2 concrete walls and it still SHOWED full signal but didnt act like it. the strange thing is, it seemed like my body could be used as an antenna. when i kept my hand over the top of the screen of my acer aspire 1692(where the antenna’s located)or just grabbed that part, the speed went up to full(40KBps) from somewhere around 6-8KBps. it wasnt a fluke or anything. worked everytime. so if u need a quick fix, here it is. though it might be affected by the design of my house and stuff. just thought ppl might be interested
cheers
oops…i downloaded the same version by mistake…sheesh.
got the new ones. my arm can finally rest…hehehehe
It shouldn’t be this complicated. After reading 21 pages of comments on this and working on it for 18 hours or more, here’s what worked for me on the Tosh Satellite M45, Linksys WRT54G wRouters and Intel 2200BG–which hasn’t worked for 6 weeks. I did many of the things suggested but here’s what worked for me.
-Toshiba support had me use my Recovery disk for a clean slate that brought me back to store-bought day.
-Linksys online tools checked out my router as okay.
-Reset the router for 30 seconds, not the 5 or 10 the instructions say.
-On the router set up, use WEP with a 26 digit key–note that the box you type it in is only 23 digits wide and you could overlook a few numbers. I used a passphrase to generate the key.
-Set the laptop’s power savings to use the most power. (my view is that power insufficiency is always the culprit in most electronics’ issues.)
-Disable the Windows Zero Configuration (WZC)through the latptop’s control panel, so that Intel Proset software controls its own wireless card and it takes you to the dialogue that asks you for the passphrase. The WZC doesn’t ever get you to that dialogue. BTW, Toshiba tech support insists on using WZC.
-Remember that if you ever reset your router, it erases your passphrase or encryption key and you need to re-enter a new passphrase or 26-letter encryption onto your laptop, too.
-Remember to avoid initializing the WZC by searching and left-clicking on wireless icons unknown to you.
Toshiba, Intel, and Linksys/Cisco shouldn’t make this setup and troubleshooting so difficult and time consuming. HW and SW manufacturers shouldn’t foist this on consumers. Contention for control of the wireless card between Windows’ and Intel’s software, coupled with the wireless card’s stingy power supply–which is probably why consistent ‘g’ data rates are spotty–are the likely culprits. I had to learn more about this than I wanted to that’s for sure.
Cheryllm
I have a new Dell 6000 laptop that shipped with Intel 2200bg “pro”set and a Dlink 624 wireless router. Test setup (unsecured) worked fine. As soon as I enabled WPA encryption, connection problems occured. Wireless would work for a few minutes then the connection would be droppped and not re-acquire. I removed the Intel software completely with no change. Upgraded the wireless drivers & router firmware with no change. A friend has the identical laptop & it exhibited the same problems. I adjusted the Intel chipset power management to maximum, no change. Both laptops would recover from their inability to acquire a network address when they were wired to the network briefly and then disconnected. Behaviours were independant of power source(battery or AC). Any ideas?
if can settle for 54mbps instead of 11mbps, in the Wireless Networks list click on “Change Advanced Settings” and Configure next to the name of the wireless card. Set preferred band and wireless mode to 801.11b instead of g or b/g. Intel 2200BG has a problem only when operating on g networks.
I’e tried the newer drivers. They do improve the situation, but dont completely solve it.
I have been having problems setting my sisters laptop (Sony vaio, with Intel ProSet 2200BG) up to the hme network. I have an Acer laptop which connects to the network with no problems, but the sony does not. It detects the network, but when I click connect, it will try and connect to then stop , not even producing a error message. I have updated the drivers for the card, but still no look, anything else I can try?
I just got and assembled my Asus z33ae and I’m having –HUGE- problems getting the wireless network adaptor (Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915ABG) to even connect to my wireless router.
It will find the network but it just won’t connect 95% of the time. If it does connect it’s only for about 1-4 minuets before the connection is dropped and it doesn’t appear to notice the connection is dropped.
These are the steps that I have taken to try and solve the problem. If anyone has some new or different ideas I would really appreciate it because I’m at my wits end and if I can’t fix the laptop by Sunday I’m sending it back!
• Upgraded to newest Intel PROSet/Wireless software and drivers.
• Changed my router to function on B band instead of G I have read that the Intel cards have problems connecting to G band.
• Turned off all security on my wireless router.
• Turned off Power save Polling (power management: highest, transmit power: highest).
• Updated my routers firmware to the newest version (I have a Linksys WRT54G, there is another laptop in the house that uses this router and has for months, with no problems it’s an Acer Aspire).
• Tried working with the Wireless Zero configuration (default windows wireless client) instead of the software supplied by Intel.
I have tried many solutions but still come across a few options from here that I will try. In my situation, perfect network, absolute fine speed on a 54Mbit connection, all of a sudden hell brakes lose.
If I find my solution I will let it know for others to try.
Cheers,
Hello,
I also have trouble with Intel Pro Wireless 2200:
- Does not work with my WRT54G with two different Firmware-Versions and my neighbour’s 54MB AP of unknown make.(German T-online 500…)
- Does work with my 11MB Netgear something 101 (very old)
Same for my neighbour’s Intel 2915 WLAN-Card.
A cheap USB-Stick and a netgear WG511 PCMCIA-Card work with all APs, 11MB/54MB…
I tested all this in Linux and Windows-XP.
Now I ordered a MSI MP54G4 because it is my experience that all cards work better than Intel’s
Falk
I have the latest Asus W5F with the new dual centrino chipset. It too uses the dreaded Intel Proset 2200BG Wireless hardware and I too have found it impossible to connect to my Dlink 2100AP on g band when using WEP. It works fine on open access but not when encrypted. Should I try the new 9.0.3.9 driver (which was not loaded with my new laptop!) or should I try to go back to 8.0 which seems to work fine with my Sony vaio which use the same hardware but the 8.0 driver. Or is it the Power settings do you think? The Asus worked brilliantly at 54mbps when not on WEP settings.
Maddening!! Help please?
you guys should try the latest software which comes with driver version 9.0.4.13.
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-010623.htm
As I wrote above, I am using a MSI MP54G4 Wireless b/g-Card now. Everything ist perfect!
It works on all APs, WEP, WPA…. No poblems. It fits perfectly into my Acer Aspire 1650. Antenne-connectors and Wireless-LED are no problem.
It has a Realtek(?) RT2500-Chip, as some other cards from different brands.
Linux-Support is very good, the driver works and there is a utility (graphic), that allows setting up profiles for networks, scanning etc.
I will sell my Intel-based card now….
Falk
I’m working on HP nx8220 with centrino, our favourite Intel 2200bg card, Linksys WRT54G. I’ve some problems only when I’m using hibernate or standby function on my laptop, after that HP is getting IP adress and after a 5-10 seconds it is only a “could not connect…” info from WinXp. After reboot everything is OK, but this is quite annoying :/
I’ve tried many drivers, software, but didn’t helped. I have found that it could be the problem of interference between the AP & PC. I’ve turned off the B mode on both router & PC (“G-only” instead of “Mixed Mode”), now turned on the CTS protection (against interference) on AP, i’ve no idea why it wasn’t ON by default! For now it is working OK, but this problem is getting worse with no reason (no chagne from my side). Maeby because of the other people using WiFi in my range? (I’m living near the city center).
In conclusion, try to turn on the CTS-to-self on PC and CTS enable on AP
I’m working on the 9.0.4.8 driverss & standard windows connection manager.
Hi
I have a NEC Versa M540, and after a windows update, and restart of windows, no more wireless internet. Checked everything, nothing…..found this web site…downloaded the latest 10 version Intel driver…it said the hardware was turned off!….read the manual for the notebook on the CD….found I had to use teh keyboard toogle FN F1 to switch it back on…vola!!!!…..somehow a windows update had turned that off!
hope this helps, as maybe someone else had this same problem…
Brian
I have a Prostar laptop. using 2200 BG wireless. I do not know if it is the card itself but everytime I turn on the radio on the card it finds the Belkin Pre_N router signal perfectly. Then the signal fluctuates. After either a minute to 30 minutes the laptop freezes then goes black while the cpu fan spins faster and faster as if the spu is in some kind of loop.
I have to turn off the laptop using hte power switch. This problem only occurs when I activate the 2200BG.
If there is anyone that has any insight into this problem let me know thanks!
its says there is no supported adapter, but there is an adapter
Hi
All this info are very nice to know.
I have struggled with a HP nx8220 Computer that use the Intel 2200BG chipset. The software I uses is 9.0.3.9 and the Router is D-link DI-624+ HW: B. and firmware 2.09.71.
D-link says that this firmware will fix Centrino Power Drop. But it will not.
I found that if I have a streaming running on the laptop
mostly http://sr.se/Webbradio, the Intel 2200BG run for weeks but if I only run some Internet surfing the D-Link vill drop after about 6 minutes.
I have installed a PC-Card D-Link DWL-G650+ and all the problem with the dropped traffic have disappeared.
I run in 802.11/g mode
When I look in the Power mode the card use Continous Ac cess Mode. The Intel 2200BG have the lowest Power mode auto adjusted.
Hope this info can help some people.
Gunnar
ok 220BG intel chipset on a CF-28 panasonic toughbook, linksys router WRT54G, IT WORKS SO SO BUT THIS IS MY PROBLEM,I have in one of my PMCI slot choice of two card maximun, a 8470-WD orinioco or proxim b/g gold client wireless card which I use to communicate pear to pear(ADHoc to a wireless adapter that hooks to the truck ECM and I am able to read wireless with and static IP and submask of 255.0.0.0 and it reads and works ok too. Now I could use 2200BG wireless to a g/b if the orinioco card is dissable or disconected, or viceversa, if I am using the intel 2200BG I can read the orinioco wi-fi or B connection. Please help if I have sleep 15 hours this week trying to figure this out calling people, posting in forums, you name it I have done it. Trying all types of drivers, windows set up, I have run out of choices or ides I realise I can’t due it and I need you help. Will be much appreciate. Thank you
I have found that the latest version of Kanotix (Easter Edition)Linux “live cd” runs this wifi card (intel 2200bg) flawlessly on my laptop. If you can get or download a version of this “live CD” you could probably tell weather the card is working correctly or not.
Ok Ok after reading more than 293 posts in 5 forums for more than 4 months and strugglin , tried all 9.0.1.* 9.0.2.* 9.0.3.9 9.0.4.* drivers for my intel 2200BG wifi card . Finally , i found the solution.
1- Uninstall the crappy intel proset software and every thing on earth related to intel
2- Compeletely uninstall the card’s driver
3- Reboot
4- Download the 8.0 driver for the card ( extract it from the installation file – DO NOT INSTALL THE INTEL SOFTWARE
5- Manually specify the location of the driver 8.0 when installing the driver
6- After Driver is installed , Go to the Card configuration and select MAXIMUM POWER TRANSMIT and MAXIMUM POWER MODE
7- Now windows is managing your card , RESTART
Finally , the speed is constant , connection is robust , simple , no drops , no continious disconnection .
Karim.
oh and i forgot the most important thing… Stuck with either b or g mode .. if you select both mode and the same time it will disconnects you ( thing for sure )
This is my problem: I have a Sony Vaio laptop, and Ive just installed the Intel Pro/wireless 2200 BG. Then I downloaded the driver from the website, but now its asking me to press a button to start using the wireless card. I dont have that button, is there other way to make work the card?
I’ve been having problems with the Intel ProSet 2200BG chipset on my Dell Latitude D410. Though signal strength is strong (to a Linksys WBG200 router) I frequently was disconnected from the internet (web pages would come up as “timed out”). Intel now has a fix that they’ve put on their site (http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-022509.htm) under the heading “Wireless LAN connection disconnects”. Intel’s fix was dated April 2006. It installs driver 9.0.13 in software package 10.1.1. This fix, along with the power management tips many others provided and letting Windows’ WZC manage the connection (this came from Linksys) seems to have cured my problem.
One, perhaps interesting, twist. This is a new Dell. My old Dell (with the same chipset connecting to the same router) had been running fine up until about 3 months ago. Then the disconnects started. One reason I got the new Dell was because I figured the wireless adapter had developed a flaw. Imagine my surprise when I had the same problem from the start with the new computer.
Hi All, It’s funny (in a sad sorta way)…I have had this problem with my Proset 2200 cards for YEARS..As far back as approx Late 2003/Early 2004. When I first saw the problems, I tried everything I could think of, and I searched the internet in vain and found no/zero info. I mainly tried Google Groups and of couse nothing there (anyone remember how GREAT DejaNews used to be before Google bought it and changed the name?….now it is almost useless and getting worse everyday!). Anyway, I always thought it was the router becuase I have 4 2200 cards in 4 laptops and 2 work perfect and 2 don’t…same drivers too.
I finally got frustrated (again) and tried installing Intels latest drivers, but had no luck. My problem is specifically that when my computer hibernates (or sits a long time without using the internet) it says it is connected, but every page fails to load. I can bring up the router (web/html) admin pages and change them and even reset the router all without rebooting…but it doesn’t help. So oddly I CAN talk to the router, but not to the internet THROUGH that same router…so you can see why I thought it might have been the “Belkin” router) Occassionally hitting tons of websites very quickly seems to “wake” something up and it starts working again (works about 50% of the time). I finally looked out on the web again (it’s been years since I found nothing) and poof! I find this site and many others. I am trying some solutions I found here (many thanks), but since the 2 problematic computers are under Dell “Complete Care” warranty, I could probably demand a replacement. But what do I get? I hear the 2915 is just the 2200 plus A support…So I could go with a Dell card, but then I lose the “Centrino” name (which strangly does affect resale price down the road) But if I had to go with non-intel I would. Could someone PLEASE recommend a card (preferrably available through Dell, but not a requirement, but please be specific as to which Dell/Intel card) that will work PERFECTLY? By the way, I should also mention that by PSP (Power-Saving-Polling) I imagine you mean opening Proset SW and selecting Adaptor settings, clicking Advanced Tab and then Selecting Power Management and unchecking default and setting it to the HIGHEST setting (which oddly, according to the docs, means MAX WIFI PERFORMANCE, and NOT max power management). I assume this would turn off PSP, but IF there is a more definitive way, please explain. So in summary, I am wondering what is the BEST replacement internal WIFI card and where exactly do you change PSP? Feel free to email me at EricM001@”VeryWarmMail”.com
(NOTE: Please replace “VeryWarmMail” with Hotmail, I am just trying to avoid spam). Thanks in Advance for the help and that you all for the posts above, Eric.
OK Here’s another version and a warning. I have a Dell X1 laptop – it’s been running the Intel wireless chpset for a year perfectly. Now suddenly it’s gone wrong and keeps dropping network connections – to varying degrees depending on the network(!) The only thing I can imagine has caused this are (a) we are having a heatwave in London and this laptop gets very hot (no intneral fan just heatsinks etc) so maybe contributes to PSP etc or (b) A regular windows update triggered it. The only other thing that has me wondering is that I started using Skype. Anyway figured that might help someone….
The solution I tried was a mixture of the ones proposed so far: uninstall all the Intel software via control panel; uninstall the adapter too via MyComputer/ Hardware… Then install the latest download from Intel. Note that the latter is about 140MB to download but during installation you can elect just to take the device driver and not all that useless IntelPro software. Yes, you do have a problem in getting the download with no wireless connection! I downloaded on another machine and copied it over via SD card. As it installed the wireless connection came on … but was dropped soon thereafter, I hadn’t chosen to reboot immediately – when I did this fixed it for aminute or two then down again. The final step is to get to power management – an item found via mycomputer/ hardware/ intel pro../ propertes properties. Uncheck use default and then move slider to the right. Wireless back on then dropped again later… This is so frustrating!
UPDATE: I think I may have a solution that is looking good so far. See immediately above for the first stuff I tried. Then, reading the Intel fix instructions on their site I also did the following. First, you need to know that I run adhoc setup as I mainly use a desktop to get onto ADSL, store files etc from other PCS in the house. So I went to my desktop PC and altered the settings of my wireless (80211b) adapter to be running at the maximum 11mbps instead of auto and set to a preamble of long instead of auto. Looking very stable now. Not sure what the other consequences of this will be.
I am running a DELL Inspiron 6000 With the Intel 2200 B/G Wireless Card. I was using the Intel Proset Software to manage the connections. I have 2 wireless G Networks set up in the house. 1 using the ZyXEL P330W Wireless Router in router mode with DHCP seerver enabled. The second router is a recently added D-Link WBR-2310 Rangebooster Router. I have had no problems connecting to the ZyXEL or any other outside wireless networks. Periodically due to the location of the router on other end of the house the signal range and quality are not stable even with an amplified antenna. When this d-Link was just added in access point mode there were a lot of problems connecting to it with th Intel Proset software. Plenty of time was spent setting options on both routers in attempt to keep the connection and re-creating the connection profiles. The last test was to diaable the Intel Proset Software and us the Microsoft Wireless Client. That worked well. Tested by pinging and surfing continuously the othe LAN connected devices as well as a few websites and public DNS Server Addresses. Connection was held to the dlink Router/AP after disabling and re-enabling the wireless adapter through hotkey.
It seems like the Intel Proset Wireless Utility is not compatable with this particular Router/AP
I have and IBM T42 running 2000 and have a BG2200 also. I had to install the Intel Proset software bc it was not on my machine when new (downgraded from XP?) The wireless connection worked well except I had a short range at home ,(DLink DI524). Encryption level was not an issue either. Now, it does not even give a cannot connect error, the web pages just will not load. It worked well elsewhere as well, at airports, Starbucks, etc. Several weeks ago, it stopped working. I have reinstalled the drivers and a newer version of the Proset software, but no luck. Strangely enough the only time it has worked recently was once at a hotel, but never since.
Any advice?
I have a Toshiba Protege R150 with intel proset 2200BG wireless. I have the problem like the rest : drop connection, signal drop, cannot connect to wireless router. I have tried downgrade to 8.x, upgrade to package 10.1.1.3. Problem still remains. Any advice?
What did the trick for me was abandoning the ProSet entirely and splurging the $25 for an Atheros for my LE1600. No more problems at all. Even at my work we have switched all our laptops to Atheros due to the many issues with the Intel.
Intel has officially blown me off twice now. Their response is “contact the manufacturer.” Hey Intel, GUESS WHO WROTE THE DRIVER?
For those still struggling with this:
1) call your computer manufacturer and demand they ship you a NON INTEL replacement for this wireless piece of junk.
2) DO NOT INSTALL THE 9.0.4.17 drivers. Use the 9.0.4.13 ones. You will still have the connect at five bars – unable to get IP nonsense but after you sacrifice a goat and get the thing to connect it at least won’t disconnect.
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-010623.htm
3) NEVER INSTALL THE PROSET SOFTWARE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Why chip manufacturers waste time re-inventing this wheel instead of spending the same development dollars getting a driver to work is beyond me.
I have a Tecra A5 and have been struggling with this junk wireless chip for six months. Tomorrow I am calling Toshiba and then going to Best Buy to purchase a pcmcia replacement, along with making sure my company NEVER PURCHASES ANOTHER INTEL WIRELESS DEVICE.
I had a problem with this IBM T42p and its intel 2200 chip, constantly losing connection and slow speeds. Then I upgraded the drivers to the new ones from IBM, went to the device manager and turned the transmit power up, and I went from 500k (when it worked) to 6200k download speeds according to http://www.speedtest.net. I live about 50 miles from Dallas and Dallas was where the server I checked was. Ping also went from 83ms to 18ms to the Dallas server.
Hmmm… knew it would be a bad idea to try and resend that…
I bought a Gateway Tablet PC with Intel Wireless Proset. I have a DLINK b wireless router. I found that when I had the powercord plugged into the wall, I had good connectivity to my wireless network. When I went on Battery power, it started dropping the signal and was totally unacceptable. I did not get much help from Gateway Tech support. My Dell with a DLINK Wireless Card plug in worked fine next to the Gateway under battery mode. I returned the Gateway and bought a Toshiba Satellite with the same chip set. Same problem. I tried changing the power settings in battery mode to max power to no avail. Looking for a solution.
My frustration with the Intel Proset 2200BG card was finally over when my connection has been stable for the past 24hours. Download the latest driver from the following link. For me, everything works fine when I set the adapter channel according to my router and increase the power to max. Leave the rest to default. Good luck.
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=1637&lang=eng
I can connect to two unsecured wireless routers from where I am. I have good connections to both (actually the LINKSYS) is better strength but I can not get to any webpages whatsoever. I have the Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG with the latest drivers. The thing is is USED to connect and work. I don’t get it.
I was having the same connection dropouts on my ThinkPad T42 as many other have reported. I tried several drivers and have now settled on the latest that IBM has, the 9.0.4.13. I set the Power Management to Highest (as suggested by some others) but that didn’t seem to help. The I tried adjusting the Roaming Aggressiveness one level lower. It is now at the second loest value. I have been connected for several days with no problems. I believe the problem may be that the card tries to connect to other wireless network unless the Roaming is set lower.
My other settings:
- AdHoc Channel: 11
- Intel Throughput Enhancements: Default (disable)
- mixed mode: default (CTS-to-self enabled)
- Power Mgmt: Highest
- Preamble: default (Auto)
- Preferred band: G
- Roaming: 2nd-lowest setting
- Transmit Power: default
- Wireless Mode: default ( b & g)
Setting the roaming down to the second lowest level improved things for me dramatically! Woo Hoo! (using 9.0.4.13 drivers).
My NEC versa M320 has ALPS UGJZ a/b mini PCI network adaptor. After i got a Linksys Wifi 802.11G Router, it all went well for a few days until the network connection suddenly drops, and a baloon pops saying “one or more wireless networks available”. I have to click the baloon, see the network list (which usually has my home network only), and click connect to keep working. Obviously this drives me nuts, and i have the latest drivers. I checked to see if there is any Power save polling feature like intels, but i found none.
I use WEP as the security protocol, and i usually get good 54 Mbps speed, but it keeps disonnecting every 5 mins.
help.
download Intel driver version 10.4 x for your OS
when a good connection but no DHCP make sure the
encryption key used matches the Key number like (1)
when using e.g. WEB Key nr 2 the symptom ocures
no dhcp but 100% connection , change to use key nr 1 and the DHCP will work flawless.
I hope this hint is usefull for some of you Intel users
Interesting thread. There seems to be a number of problems with the Intel Wireless hardware. Surely Intel should be able to make hardware and software that works for a regukar user without having to tweak it here and there? Obviously not.
Video streaming is my particular problem and it is most definitely the Intel adaptor at fault. Tried most of the suggestions above, updated the driver and still no joy.
You may ask how I know it’s a Intel Wireless fault, well there are no problems using a 3Com or D-link PCMCIA card. You might say “why not carry on using those then!”, but that daft if the PC has a built in Wireless Adaptor.
Annoying or what? Come on Intel, sort your bl**dy act out!
I think this is just a bad
I have sony vaio T-27 the smallest notbook. i wasn’t having any problems with my wireless but today now i am in houston and when i tried to counect to linksys router i have it discounecting every 10 min and the small icone said see more routers or somthng like this, so try to connect to thet same router again this time i have internet but the small icon down there shows an X on the icone saying not counected but i am counected and i stay like this for like 10 again discounect .!!!! and keep on going like this !!!
i did the following :
1- update inter pro drivers to the latest from intel site
2- used the setting mentioned up there for the intel drivers but still same sh*t.
any help ???
I can’t get my Dell Truemobile 2300 to go into WEP mode. All seems to work and go through the procedures but my computers won’t connect.
Any ideas??
Intel has 9.0.4.17 drivers now. It appears vista forces drivers-only so we can only hope hardware manufacturers will stop wasting time creating yet another stupid and incompatible proprietary management solution and spend time making drivers that actually work correctly instead.
I have an HP laptop with the Intel Pro 2200BG. After nine months of operating with no problems I started getting frequent intermittent drops in signal. After spending literally hours on the phone with HP support I was advised the only option left was a complete reinstall to which I said no thanks. I then found this site and made the following recommended changes:
1. update driver to 9.0.4.17
2. Power Mgmt: Highest
3. Roaming: 2nd-lowest setting
Guess what? Haven’t had a dropped signal since making these simple changes (3 days). Now why wouldn’t HP tech support know about this?
I noted in one post that driver 9.0.4.13 was recommended over the newer 9.0.4.17. Can anyone say why that is?
I have run into the same problems with 5 Intel cards on 3 different laptops. My club offers free wireless to members, I have had problems connecting with Intel 2100 cards and 2200 cards in an older Acer Tablet and an LG Ultra portable machine. I had upgraded the cards in both machines from 2100s to 2200s. My current laptop, an Asus Z62F with an Intel 3945 ABG card has the same problem as the others. It connects to the network and basically does nothing, I can’t access email and then only open one or two web pages, but it never disconnects or drops the connection.
I use an older Netgear G based AP at home and never drop or lose connectivity. Current machine has the latest drivers only package from Intel.
The club has a Dlink APs throughout the building and in the past if I used my Netgear G PC Card it would work fine this was on any laptop. Currently I have been connecting my Linksys travel router to their network and connecting my Laptop to that network and it seems to work fine.
My wife’s and Mother’s Acer machine with broadcom wireless cards always work there with no issues.
I would say that there is defintely a problem with both the Wireless cards and the Dlink routers
Will try the above and see if they work next time I am down there.
What is terrible is that I build laptops for clients and in order to add the Centrino Or Centrino Duo logo (which a lot want although they don’t know what it is) I have to include the Intel Wireless card. I usually will only sell then Netgear Routers or APs with the machines so I don’t get the calls later.
Had problems with Intel2200BG card, would work fine at work with Cisco APs but at home on my ASUS router my connection would constanly drop. Updated drivers to 9.0.4.17 and had no luck. Forced my router down to 802.11b and it did seem to be alot more stable. I didn’t want to keep it this way due to alot of large files being transferred etc.
Carried on playing around….
In advanced settings changed:
1. Power Mgmt: Highest
2. Roaming: 2nd-lowest setting
All seems stable.
At last!!!!
I’ve just been helping my friend with the problems she was having with her Sony Vaio Laptop with built in Intel 2200BG network card.
Her connection kept dropping. To solve it, we did the following, as stated above by a few people:
1) Set power management to highest
2) Set wireless mode from both 802.11b/802.11g to just 802.11b
Now she has a stable connection, even though it is slower than it has the potential to be.
However, she’ll take a stable connection that does not disconnect every 2 mins over a faster one!
By the way, her driver was 9.0.1.9
Don’t waste time with the Intel cards 2200BG and 2915ABG they just don’t work, Intel should recall them, but that won’t happen. My problem was I had Excellent Connection and 54Mbps Speed and couldn’t open my Homepage!!. I solved this by replacing the wireless card with a Gigabyte card that contains the Atheros single chip, it has turned a useless laptop into an excellent laptop. Anyone want to buy my Intel wireless cards.
Hi, i got this mini PCI wireless card installed in NEC M320 but there is no way i can activate the radio in this card. So can anyone help me out on activating this.
Thanks
Dan
I the same as many people have just experianced a lot of time wasted trying to resolve something that Intel should have sorted out along time ago instead of pretending there really is not a problem.
I have a HP Compaq nc6120 it has the dreaded 2200bg card and it worked fine for a year then started dropping connections every few minutes, i blamed my Dlink Router which has not been powered down for at least 12 months it turns out that this is not the prob anyhow to keep things working at full speed i disabled the Intel 2200BG Card and stuck a SafeCom 54MPS usb 2.0 lan adapter in a usb port loaded the drivers and now running stable and flat out at 54Mbps. Lan stick cost me £12 and it is a dam site more effective than that expensive crap from Intel
I think I read every webpage available on earth about the Intel 2200 BG connection problem. I tried every suggestion made by any living person. Nothing helped. Every driver, every setting possible. Connection kept dropping from 54 to 24 and sometimes lower. My conclusion is that it is definitely a hardware problem. The Intel 2200BG simply is crap. I bought an Ahteros based card (Gigabyte GN-WIAG02)and replaced the Intel card. Needless to say that all problems are over. Never had a connection drop again! Always 54 mbps. What a relief! It was worth every 24 euros I spent on the new card. People: get rid of the Intel card!
Hi,
The issue with my Sony VAIO VGN-FS980 is that the wireless connection gets disconnected very often( every 5-10 mins) and automatically connects up sometimes also. I don’t know whats the issue there as the link is always there. I had upgrared the latest driver from the Intel site and still no improvement. It bets dropped off very frequently. Its been hapenning for last 1 week and I have eben earlier using the laptop for last 3 months without any trouble. Don’t know what has hapenned. I even restored the laptop to the factory settings, but still no luck. My wireless router is a Netgear one. I have my roommates using it without an issue. Even I have a Dell laptop form office and its working perfectly without any connection drop off. I even took the external Dell wireless LAN card from my friend and installed it in my laptop and its wokring perfectly fine. So, definitely there is issue with the Intel PRO/ 2200BG internal wireless card, not sure what it is and how can I fix it? I am not sure if its a hardware problem also. Please suggest how to fix this problem. I am really having a tough time to use the internet in this way. Any suggestions and appreciated.
Thanks,
Suman.
I used to have problems with my intel wireless 2200BG, not connecting, dropping connections but then i down graded my driver and used the windows wireless configuration no problems.
Check out this driver for your intel card!
http://asia.giga-byte.com/FileList/Driver/nb_driver_w511a_9.0.2.25_wlan_drivers.rar
hi
i have a fujitsu S6000, the problem is that it restarts on its own, after i send the report windos says “Download updates for Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG adapter software (w22n51.sys)
This problem was caused by Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG adapter software (w22n51.sys). Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2200BG adapter software (w22n51.sys) was created by Intel Corporation.”
i did that and it didn’t work, i even removed the softwere and it still didn’t work.
Greatly thanks to Ronald.
My laptop is Lenovo y400 with Intel® Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Network Adapter.
I also had the same problem, My wireless connection to “G” network was good only for 3-5 minutes.
And now, my problem is solved. PSP (power save polling) was the problem too.
And the detail solution is at
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/cs-006205.htm
just read “Notes:” part.
my friend accidently uninstalled intelpro. Now he cannot connect to the internet with an internet cable. The internet cable icon is missing from the lower right toolbar. He can connect via wireless but cannot load any web pages.
We’ve had a lot of drop out problems with a Netgear DG834GT and Intel Celeron/BG2200 on and ASUS notebook. Speed would drop to 1.0Mbps, and not recover. We have used DrTCP software (1) to discover that there was no MTU setting for the BG2200, and (2) to set the MTU for the BG2200 at 1500 (same as the Netgear router). Performance has improved out of sight!! 54Mbps is now frequently being achieved for LAN and internet transfers.
We’ve had a lot of drop out problems with a Netgear DG834GT and Intel Celeron/BG2200 on and ASUS notebook. Speed would drop to 1.0Mbps, and not recover. We have used DrTCP software (1) to discover that there was no MTU setting for the BG2200, and (2) to set the MTU for the BG2200 at 1500 (same as the Netgear router). Performance has improved out of sight!! 54Mbps is now frequently being achieved for LAN and internet transfers.
We’ve had a lot of drop out problems with a Netgear DG834GT and Intel Celeron/BG2200 on and ASUS notebook. Speed would drop to 1.0Mbps, and not recover. We have used DrTCP software (1) to discover that there was no MTU setting for the BG2200, and (2) to set the MTU for the BG2200 at 1500 (same as the Netgear router). Performance has improved out of sight!! 54Mbps is now frequently being achieved for LAN and internet transfers.
We’ve had a lot of drop out problems with a Netgear DG834GT and Intel Celeron/BG2200 on and ASUS notebook. Speed would drop to 1.0Mbps, and not recover. We have used DrTCP software (1) to discover that there was no MTU setting for the BG2200, and (2) to set the MTU for the BG2200 at 1500 (same as the Netgear router). Performance has improved out of sight!! 54Mbps is now frequently being achieved for LAN and internet transfers.
We’ve had a lot of drop out problems with a Netgear DG834GT and Intel Celeron/BG2200 on and ASUS notebook. Speed would drop to 1.0Mbps, and not recover. We have used DrTCP software (1) to discover that there was no MTU setting for the BG2200, and (2) to set the MTU for the BG2200 at 1500 (same as the Netgear router). Performance has improved out of sight!! 54Mbps is now frequently being achieved for LAN and internet transfers.
There’s an inner circle of hell for chip manufacturers that fob this kind of junk onto computer makers then run screaming when they can’t write drivers that work.
I’m currently stuck with a laptop with a wireless lan chipset I have to sacrifice goats to in order to get it to connect. Intel runs away from their own products saying it’s all the computer manufacturers fault nothing works when Intel is the one supplying the OEM drivers.
There’s something to be said about commodity hardware driving down the prices of laptops, but when a company tries to tout some chipset as the be-all and end-all of laptop computing then abandons their own products because the can’t write drivers that work, it leaves a really bad taste in your mouth.
You may be able to tell I’m extremely bitter about this whole pile of junk that is the 2200bg wireless lan chipset, and you’d be right on the mark. I bought a great inexpensive laptop and I currently have to plug in a borg’s nest of connections to get it to communicate to the outside world. Way to go, Intel. By bailing on your drivers you’ve created an extremely pissed off customer with a really, really long memory. My computer is about two years old and I am still pissed off enough to continue to write to an unused log about my frustration with your product. I’ll keep this bitter resentment in mind when I purchase my next laptop this year.
I too have read every webpage available on earth about the Intel 2200 BG connection problems. I tried every configuration change, driver upgrade, driver downgrade, etc. I even sat on the phone with IBM’s wireless tech support for several hours at least three times to resolve the issues. IBM even sent me a replacement 2200 card to try, claiming that the one I had was defective. Nothing worked. The connection kept dropping from 54 to 24 and sometimes lower, even on the new card. So I called IBM and had them send me a Thinkpad wireless card. It cost me about $60…and guess what? No more problems. THE BEST SOLUTION (and the only one that really worked for me) is to get rid of the Intel card and go with something else…anything! So my new laptop cost $60 more than I anticipated. Oh well…at least I’m not spending hours every night trying to figure this thing out. I was contemplating selling the old card to recoop some of the money I spent on the new card, but I can’t stomach putting anyone else through such agony with this Intel POS.
i have a sony laptpo vgnfs660 for 3 years and i only recently had connecting problems. tech support at sony was useless. however what worked for me is adjusting the securty on the wireless router. 64bit encryption gives problems. wep -personnel using TKIP shared encryption allowed me to conect very easy.
I have a DELL inspiron 6000 and intel Proset 2200BG with connection problems. Also found a solution for it.
A new installation and NOT instal the latest drivers. But intel wireless 2200BG network driver 9.0.0.61.
It works correctly !!!!
Well, I have had similar issues to many of these writers. And I have tried different drivers, changing the PSP etc. Actually, the Microsoft PSP suggestion did seem to cure it, for a few days, but then back to normal unfortunately. I have had this problem for about a year, on and off, with no obvious pattern, seemed to get worse when I used WEP or WPA encryption, but I think that was more coincidence.
My laptop is a Fujitsu Amilo M3438G and I noticed that the wireless indicator LED would also turn off at the times when I lost connection. I thought that this LED should simply represent the status of the wireless slider switch on the front of my laptop (either On or Off), and if I simply lost connection to my wireless AP, it should make no difference to the LED. So, I took my laptop to bits, which is not for the faint-hearted I can assure you, and guess what; the slider switch has a thin cable which attaches to two pins on the Motherboard and this connection was less than secure. Simply by applying pressure to the top of the connector I could illuminate the wireless LED at will. A bit of tweaking to said connector has done the trick. Effectively, any movement of the laptop, or possibly resting of palms near the front of the keyboard could trigger my problem, but all is ok now.
So, whilst there is clearly a problem with this Intel card and its drivers, in some cases it can be a simple hardware fault, that no amount of software updates can fix, even if they appear to sometimes, as in my case.
Paul
I just installed a WLAN Mini PCI Card on my Hewlett Packard laptop model nc8000 (Windows 2000) and downloaded the software that came with it (driver Version 9.0.4.17). The device does not work and I get the popup message “Adapter state not found in registry” when I open the properties in the device manager. Any ideas? Thanks alot!
Hi all, I have a Toshiba M200 that uses the Intel 2200BG piece of crap. I have been trying to get this f*cking thing working for the past few years (I essentially gave up for the last few figuring it was a hardware failure).
Then, I saw a post by RE Young dated Feb 14, 2006 at 05:49 PM and entered the complete hex WEP key in instead of my passphrase, and VOILA!!! IT WORKS!!! MY GOD, IT WORKS!!! I can’t believe that even on Intel’s site, they don’t mention this!!!
Anyway, I did downgrade the driver so that it does not do the power polling stuff that was also mentioned earlier. I am a bit hesitant to try using the full key on the latest version, though. Anyway, just thought I’d say thanks to RE Young and pass the info along….
Hi, i have a gateway tablet, CX2620 and i have been havin wireless issues. I have a 2200 gb intel proset. my wi fi drops every 2 mins or so and reconnects…any suggestions?
Hi, I have Toshiba Tecra A3 with 2200BG adapter (driver version 9.0.4.36), connecting to wireless router D-link DI-624+. After using hibernate or standby my WiFi connection doesn’t work: it’s OK with getting IP adress and in wireless networks list it displays as connected, but I can’t ping DLink. I tried to add “IrqRouteToPCIController” DWord parameter 0×00000000 (0) to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pcmcia\Parameters (I heard that sometimes it helps), but still no success. It’s really bothering to reboot everytime! Maybe someone has already solved this problem?
Annie
got a 2200BG, same issues as usual, connection dropping for hours and big frustrations, BUT AT THIS VERY MOMENT i am writing wirelessy with my toshiba satellite l20 xp sp2! thanks to the FUJITSU driver as they told here. as far as i’m writing, it works!! thanks from italy
Anybody having trouble with Intel 2200BG Wireless cards and BTHomeHub recently?
The problem is with the latest BTHomehub router firmware revision (6.2.6.E) which appears to be incompatible with the retained Wireless settings. When the router does a firmware upgrade all by itself it does so but retains all your settings. In the past this is worked in most cases but this latest firmware revision leaves your Wifi cards (Intel 2200BG specifically) high and dry with the ability to see networks but not connect to them so much so that the wireless digital certificate that your router downloads prevents your wifi device from connecting to anything else.
Performing a factory reset (Pressing the Wifi connect button on the back for 20-30 seconds) forces a hardware reset of the modem back to it’s new state. Re-configuring your wireless router settings with WPA (Not WPA2) will then result in your Intel 2200BG Wifi card being able to connect to it again and any other network you care to try it on. (You must use the Intel Proset utility initially to make the first successful connection and remove any old wireless profiles first.).
dell has discontinued the 2200BG:
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/pro2200bg/sb/CS-028972.htm
dell has discontinued the 2200BG:
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/pro2200bg/sb/CS-028972.htm
amen!
it doesnt help me. i just received my brand new dell inspiron 8 hours ago, and have spent the last 7 hours finding it out what a nightmare it is (cuz i obviously have the 2200 installed – thats how i found this site).
either i will have to learn how to fix it, or send the laptop back to dell and demand they put a non intel in it.
either way, at least future owners/users wont have to deal with this crappy product.
hello AGAIN TROUBLES with xp sp3, as soon as i’m installed the upgrade i started again big issues… the signal strenght is often too low and i’m really fed up. they say in italy it is a prblem to buy an atheros mini pci-e card, am i bound to remain with this *?^#@!!! intel?
In my apartment block there are 27 people with mostly brand new COMPAQ PC’s, all extremely pi**ed off due to being unable to use the wifi system.
Notebook manufacturers please take note, especially Compaq. Use Intel chipsets at your peril, you are losing the goodwill of hundreds of thousands of people due to Intel. HINT – CHANGE YOUR SUPPLIER…
have a Toshiba Satellite M35 and all of a sudden an my system crashes. The error message states an online crash. When I send the report to the microsoft online crash analysis it says the error is caused by: Intel Pro/Wireless LAN 2200BG adapter software (w22n51.sys). I was told by toshiba to restore my system with my restore cd. Unfortunately, I am unbale to find my restore cd for this. I was told by intel to download latest driver, to no prevail. Is there anything I can do before giving it to a tech to which will cost me a $100 just to have them look at it. I understand if I need to do that which is no problem, I just want it to exhaust all options first. Thanks for any and all replies.