Customer Reviews

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection, Single (WM3B2200BGMWWB2)

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This is a card that's been used (with some modifications) widely on many centrino laptops. The IBM brand one sells for more than double the price so this is a very cheap one!

Bought this one for my IBM T41. The Mini PCI industry is a little funky, each manufacture might do some hardware/software tweak to make it only works on their own system. So they set bits here and there, set up whitelist, etc. So this card might work straight out of box on some of the laptops but WILL NOT WORK on others without tweaking. (...)

So finally I gave it a try and bought this one from Amazon. Boot into DOS mode, run no-1082 to suppress the warning message, install card, boot up to xp, install driver, and wholla!! I'm now in 802.11g! Of course I'm invalidating the warrantee but my laptop already out of it anyway.

I bought my laptop, almost two years ago, without built-in wi-fi not just becuase I had a spare PCMCIA wireless card but also because built-in wi-fi was about $100 more. When I recently found Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG mini-PCI wi-fi card for less than $30 (including shipping) at Amazon.com, I couldn't pass up! I checked IBM Support's website to make sure that this card was compatible with my laptop, ThinkPad X31 (type 2884), before placing the order. When the card arrived today, I was excited. What I saw after installation, however, was anything but exciting:

Error

1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in - Power off and remove the miniPCI network card.

Yes, this is exactly what I saw when I powered up the laptop after installing the card. Looking around on the 'net, it was comforting to know that I wasn't alone. There were people before me--and, I am sure, I am not the last one--who had the same problem. Someone even figured out the problem, devised a solution and made it available to everyone for free. I followed the instructions available on the 'net and executed the little DOS program, no-1802.com, and the laptop boots up without complaining. Once, the laptop boots up, Windows XP detects the new hardware and installing the driver and getting the wi-fi running was trivial. Since Intel provides Linux drivers for this miniPCI card, getting this to work with Fedora Core 3 running on the same laptop, ThinkPad X31, was easy, too. I am now in the built-in wi-fi world for cheap--definitely cheaper than IBM would have liked! Thanks, Amazon.com.

I bought this WIFI card and ordered a pair of HITACHI mini-pci antenna from an ebay seller in UK for $15.99, now my thinkpad x24 is WIFI. I got rid of my PCMCIA card. Great product! You can do the same thing just like I did to your laptop as long as your laptop has a mini-pci port. All you need is a pair of mini-pci antenna to make your old laptop become a wifi machine.

First off, the card works great once you get it to work. But getting it to work may be a challenge.

I bought this card for my HP NC6000. Although the guts of this card are identical to the HP card (both made by Intel) found on the HP site, this card will NOT work out of the box with most HP laptops. As it turns out, most laptop manufacturers have their own Intel branded cards and ONLY those cards will work in their laptops (i.e., BIOS will identify the card at bootup and require the card to be removed before finishing booting). There is a workaround for this posted on the HP forum at the HP website that requires some technical expertise, but for those of you that do not want to fool around with re-writing a portion of the ROM on this card, you're probably better off paying the extra amount for a HP labeled card.

I needed an internal card for my old Dell 5150 laptop. I found this and decided to try it out. Worked perfectly. No boot issues, or learning curve. Found my home wi-fi immediately and is still working...three years later.

Installed this myself in a Dell 5100 (which is not Centrino) running Win XP Pro SP2. Software installed without a problem, and it was easy to configure to connect to my secure wireless home network. My wife takes this laptop to work in a public school and easily connected to the public school network too.

Documentation that comes with this says it's only for Centrino laptops. Not true. It runs fine in the 5100 which doesn't have a Pentium M or the Centrino chipset. Don't know if Intel would support it in a Dell 5100, but it integrates well with the 5100 motherboard, and we noticed there are now little networking lights working on the back of the computer at the wired cable connection.

I installed this in my Inspiron D600. At first it was dropping my internet connection every 5 seconds. It would reconnect, load a page, then drop again. I was getting SOOO frusterated. Finally I got back on my old external card and did some research. Turns out more then just me were having this problem. One guy suggested to change the power management from lowest to highest, and viola! No more dropped signal. I am very happy with it now. A good deal at only 27 bucks, but be prepared to jack with it to make it work.

Works awesome in my IBM T42 series laptop, great way to get rid of an external adapter. As previously stated, I had to run the no1802.com file to get the laptop to boot, but other than that its been perfect.

Highly recommended.

Great Product for any laptop with a mini-pci slot...it adds b and g wireless!

I bought this card for a Toshiba 1905-S301 and it works great. The card didn't work out of the bag, it's not 100% compatible. The on/off radio switch on the side of the notebook doesn't work with it, if you install the card "as is" the notebook will see the card and the OS will load the drivers but it won't turn on the radio. To solve this little glitch I had to cover the pin 11 and 13 with tape, after that the card worked great. The on/off switch still doesn't work but I can always disable the card using the OS controls.