Bad Wireless Ethernet Card?
Posted by Doug Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:20:00 GMT
My ThinkPad has built in 802.11b wireless ethernet (WiFi?). It’s based on a chipset from Harris Semionductor (at least that’s what lspci tells me) and uses the hermes and orinoco_pci Linux drivers. Periodically it just quits working. I’ve written a little ResetWifi script that unloads all the Linux drivers and then reloads them. It’s pretty annoying. I always thought it was a Linux driver issue. However, last night I was playing NWN and my wifi card quit on me! That means if it’s a driver issue, the MS-Windows 2000 driver has the same issue. So, I’m betting it’s some firmware issue (or maybe just plain old bad hardware?).
