![]() ![]() Live Chat ~Enter Discord~ Submission Guidelines That sucks, and I have a disabled laptop because of it.Check out our Knowledge Base, all guides are compiled by our Trusted Techs. So the only reason to make this restriction is to sell their version of the 2230. No testing, nothing, at least for US and CAN (Canada mirrors the FCC rules, just send them a check and you are good to go. The Intel 2230 is modular certified, what that means is that if you use the antenna that it was certified with (which almost all laptops use), you do not need to certify again, simply show the FCC ID of the module on the system (IE the laptop) and send your $$ to the FCC then you are good. However, that is not the reason for this restriction. Having worked to certify wireless products, I know what a pain it is. I then noticed that the card has a special ID, my guess is specific to Lenovo. Told me unauthorized card, despite the same model number. I bought a new 2230 card because mine died (did not even show in Dev Manager on Linux or Windows, I dual boot). ![]() This whole Whitelist bothers me, what bothers me even more is it is not a white list, it is a special version of the card. I suspect I will have to play with the drivers for a bit but I am expecting a significant improvement. I will let you know how it works once it is installed. I upgraded my bios yesterday and hope to get to the store today to pick up an Intel AC 7260. For me I am 100% sure the issue was the Centrino 2230. That way when I got a drop I could check the wifi connection with that as well. I also downloaded a wifi analyzer for my android phone. If that is the only device that loses the connection you can be pretty sure. TO be sure I would suggest using a 2nd or 3rd wifi device right next to the problem device. Google Centrino 2230 and you will see 100's of threads complaining about that card, including on the Intel website. I would think if you have the 2230 it is almost certain that the issue is with your wifi card. ![]() How can I make sure that WiFi connection drops came from WiFi card and are not depending of my environment with many other wireless connections like WiFi and Bluetooth? Even humidity will have an impact on WiFi connection. ![]()
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