From: Michael Geary (Mike_at_Geary.com)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 18:06:47 EDT
The key word here must be "may"!
I've never seen this symptom in a solid 18 months of using an A20p and A21p,
both with mini-PCI cards and wireless cards, and I almost always boot with
the wireless card in place. (I've used both Cisco and Lucent/ORiNOCO cards,
with both the manufacturers' drivers and Windows XP's own drivers.) I wonder
what they might be talking about--I've never seen anyone mention such a
problem here. There are a LOT of people with wireless cards and mini-PCI
cards in their machines.
Did the article mention any specific OSes involved? I've been using Windows
2000 and XP. Never a problem with boot time. XP boots up very fast!
-Mike
> A curious sidelight about this issue from IBM's web site:
>
> ======================================================
>
> Symptom
> You may experience a longer system boot time if you have both an 802.11b
> wireless LAN PC Card installed at the same time as a mini-PCI card (of any
> type). The boot times may exceed 150 seconds. This can occur regardless of
> the manufacturer of either card. It is a symptom of having any
> wireless LAN
> card and any mini-PCI card in the same system.
> Affected configurations
> Any system with a Mini-PCI card and 802.11b Wireless card of any
> manufacturer.
> The following ThinkPad laptops have Mini-PCI cards installed in them:
> A20
> A21
> T20
> T21
> X20
> 600X
> Solution
> This long boot time is normal. There should be no effect on system
> functionality.
>
> Document id: MIGR-4TQVCR
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