brand new intel 2200 and 2915 wireless card driver - Page 3

in Network Connections (Control Panel) right click your wireless conn, select properties... clk on the Wireless Networks tab... check "Use Windows to configure my wireless settings"

EDIT: the intel app will still run at startup and be in systray but it will have a red X through it...

therefore you uninstall the the intel app or at least leave it disabled via msconfig (along with its service through services.msc)

What Is The Problem With Intel PROSet/Wireless?

I see repeated comments that the Intel Software has problems - but no description of these problems. I'm using the Intel PROSet/Wireless without any problems. I definately prefer the Intel software over Microsoft's.

AgentEE7

well i'm prob not the best to answer your question, but at least i can tell my experiences...

i have the 2915abg, a D-Link router and a D-Link pc card for my other notebook...

the older notebook works flawlessly - great connection speed, always connects immediately, etc.

the 2915abg sometimes has probs connecting, the transfer rate is pretty low more often than it should...

i solved my prob by using A band instead of G... since then i really haven't had any probs and i don't have any interference with my wireless phones... and i'm letting Windows manage my connection instead of the Intel but i'm gonna try the Intel someday cause if i remember correctly, it has some features Windows doesn't, but i'm totally satisfied now...

i'd advise everybody to use A band instead of G... G is unregulated... it's used for wireless phones, baby monitors and almost everybody uses it for wireless networking (at least home users) while A is very much regulated by the FCC cause it's used by emergency services and if they have any probs the FCC listens to them immed... so if anybody is using a cantenna or in any way boosting the signal i wouldn't do it on A... bet that's a big time fine...

btw, the reason the D-Link card works so well is that D-Link uses Atheros chips in most of it's stuff - that's why people were buying the Atheros mini pc card to put in their notebooks...

What's the best way to install wireless drivers?....

I have very poor connection speeds with my wireless DSL modem/router (ie. usually ~10KB/s). If I started from scratch with a clean install of WinXP PRO, what would be the steps to install the wireless drivers and which ones?

Thx.

The Intel one worked ok for me, gave me a bit more info than the built-in windows one. But it annoyed me that it constantly gave profile in progress errors when trying to change AP and then would drop too often.

The real killer for the Intel Proset was that it takes up something like 5 processes and several services!! just to manage the card, waste of cpu and memory.

Bump for help please...

i let Windows manage my card but i've left the Intel app installed but disabled i think - the systray icon is white with a red cross through it and all the options are grayed out except Hide Icon... anybody know how much sys resourses it's using?

i know this is off topic but maybe somebody will know... i have an XPS and 2GB, is there a way to keep the kernal memory from paging and is it something i wanna do?

sorry to throw that in here but i'm sick as a dog and it's all i can do to key this... thanks for any help, again please excuse for it being off topic...

To be sure, disable your page file. Otherwise, add this registry setting:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001

thanks for your quick answer, but i have a problem... i do need my paging file because i work with some very large graphics so i guess the only time i could do this is when i don't need it... wish there was some way to keep the kernel from paging but still keep my paging file... can't have everything... but at least i now know disabling the paging file when i don't need it will improve my performance...

thanks again

That registry tweak is to stop paging the kernel...disabling the page file altogether is a completely different approach.

hey man you're great! thx so much, that was exactly what i wanted! great job, much appreciated

i changed "DisablePagingExecutive" from 0 to 1 and i've rebooted several times but kernel memory is still paging...

i found this article in the MS Knowledgebase that described it exactly but it said it only applies to NT and w2k nothing about XP so i guess it doesn't...

sux cause i'd really love to have it not page...

thanks again for your help