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TrueMobile 1180 Mini PCI driver problems - freezes and blue screens
I've had my i8200 for 1 week and I've been experiencing a lot of random freezes and blue screen stop errors. (The blue screens are "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" errors due to "bcmwl5.sys".) That seems to narrow it down to the TrueMobile 1180 driver: bcmwl5.sys. I've disabled the TrueMobile network adapter in the Device Manager and I've yet to have a freeze or blue screen. Of course, I also don't have any wireless connection.
Has anyone else out there had this problem? Anyone have a solution other than waiting for an updated driver from Dell or getting a different card? I've already tried reinstalling the driver but WinXP assigns it to the same memory range and IRQ.
Songoma
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December 16th, 2003 14:00
Hi there!
I had the same effect as you described above. I found a new wireless rollup package from Microsoft. After I had installed that, the effect was gone and I'm a lucky man ;)
Knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826942
Download URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5039ef4a-61e0-4c44-94f0-c25c9de0ace9&displaylang=en
kind regards,
michael
DanSpar
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March 29th, 2004 01:00
I ran into the blue screen error (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and bcmwl5.sys) on my 4150 for the first time after a year of problem free wireless performance. Everything would work fine until I switched on the wireless networking. Once that happened, the blue screen error occured and the only thing I could do is a hard reboot. I tried updating my driver and that didn't work. Then by luck, I connected to a different wireless router (many people in my apartment building have personal wireless routers without passwords) because the driver update deleted my wireless routing prefernces and assigned a different router as the default. Everything worked perfectly. However, upon switching back to my Netgear Wireless Router I got the dreaded blue screen error.
Solution: Restart the wireless router.
Once I restarted the wireless router, everything has been working seamlessly since.