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norton · 05-21-2004

I have an HP ze4400 notebook and an orinoco gold 802.11b card. The problem is that with that card in my Hp notebook I get extremely poor range, but with the same card in both of my friends Dell notebooks the signal range is significantly better than in my HP. They pick up alot more AP's than I do when I put my card in thier notebooks. I have done everything I can think of, even my friends are IT guys and they are stumped as well. I updated my BIOS, tried different versions of drivers, various other things that HP support has asked me to try. I have come to the conclusion its possibly a hardware issue. Are there any utilities that can get me some info on my cardbus? such as amount of voltage going to the orinoco? It is still under warrenty for a few months but I want to make sure I try everything possible before I send it into HP. but here are the specs on the system:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Windows XP Pro
256MB RAM
30gig HD
O2Micro Cardbus (OZ6912) <------- Havent been able to find very recent drivers
Orinoco 802.11b PCMCIA

If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.

05-21-2004	#1 (permalink)
norton Registered Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 4	poor range...need advice I have an HP ze4400 notebook and an orinoco gold 802.11b card. The problem is that with that card in my Hp notebook I get extremely poor range, but with the same card in both of my friends Dell notebooks the signal range is significantly better than in my HP. They pick up alot more AP's than I do when I put my card in thier notebooks. I have done everything I can think of, even my friends are IT guys and they are stumped as well. I updated my BIOS, tried different versions of drivers, various other things that HP support has asked me to try. I have come to the conclusion its possibly a hardware issue. Are there any utilities that can get me some info on my cardbus? such as amount of voltage going to the orinoco? It is still under warrenty for a few months but I want to make sure I try everything possible before I send it into HP. but here are the specs on the system: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Windows XP Pro 256MB RAM 30gig HD O2Micro Cardbus (OZ6912) <------- Havent been able to find very recent drivers Orinoco 802.11b PCMCIA If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it.