From: Edward Mendelson (edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 00:04:50 EDT
Mike,
That's fascinating - I wonder what IBM had in mind? No OS mentioned. As soon
as the card I'm trying out arrives, I'll report on my experience here. Very
strange...!
Edward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com>
To: "Edward Mendelson" <edward.mendelson_at_verizon.net>; "THINKPAD_at_CS.UTK.EDU"
<THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: [600X] Enable internal modem and remove modem port cover?
> 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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