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.

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…

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?

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.

dell has discontinued the 2200BG:
http://support.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/pro2200bg/sb/CS-028972.htm

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.).

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

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

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 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….

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!

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 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 !!!!

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 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.

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.