Friday, March 11, 2011

Toughbooks & Atheros AR5006X Mini PCI

Hi all,

I bought 4 Atheros based mini pci to upgrade from Intel 11b cards. Two AR5005GS SuperG that installed without a hitch and worked well in a



Now card is re-detected, Troubleshooting Utility works and loads at startup but "Running Radio test - test failed". Clicking on the 'Show Connection Status', the Auto Profile selection is Disabled.



Device Manager now shows;

Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter

Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter - Wireless Intermediate Driver (not sure what this is)



I un-install the card. Remove the utility program and let Windows detect the card again from scratch but that didn't work out as well. Back to the drawing board. Re-installed the card that originally came with the laptop, an Intel 11b, and that worked just fine. [rules out buggy minipci connectivity]



Uncertain if this issue is peculiar to Pannys but am looking forward to hearing from those who have successfully installed/configured this AR5006X card. Game to try all suggestions as I'm at wit's end.



Many thanks in advance,

Ron in SG

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