Well, this is annoying.
So, sitting in the living room a few days ago, i noticed that my Compaq v6000 took forever to come out of hibernation and that it was running really slow after it did. That was to be somewhat expected since i had a bunch of network stuff that was previously running when i put it to sleep. i proceed to try to shut things down, but it was taking forever. So i decide to do a bit of brute force. i shut down the various editors and then cold boot the box.
On reboot, it came up, but it wasn't connecting to the network. That's when i noticed the little orange dot of doom. (Got a v6000? You know what i mean.) i tried resetting the switch, nothing. Waiting 20 seconds, nothing. Cursing like a drunken sailor who just smashed a fine bottle of rum against his own head, nothing. i was not happy.
Well, turns out that somewhere around August of 2007, HP released a new Broadcom driver. i popped that driver onto a thumb drive, ran it on the V6000, (then found the actual setup file in C:/SWSetup/SP36684A) and proceeded to upgrade the drivers for my wirelss card. Things work, i'm happy, and then… well… they stop working.
Now, i'm really getting into the spittle driven anger.
Well, turns out that apparently the Broadcom wireless card in said V6000 decided it doesn't want to play anymore. No problem, i think, because this will be a nice opportunity for me to swap out the mini-ide card for one that may be a tad more advanced. i could pop in an intel 802.11bgn. Cool beans! There was even a online shop not that far away that sold 'em. Two days later, it arrives, i plug it in, restart and immediately see "INVALID WIRELESS DEVICE DETECTED. REMOVE IT AND REBOOT." Yeah, that'd be HPs fun way of saying "
Ok, so i probably could have tried another 802.11b/g card.
Still, darn annoying.
As it is, i'm using an old $20 80211g dongle i had left over until that one shows up next week.
So, basically, laptop broke and it's going to cost me something like $35 to fix it.
Ok, it's a principal thing.
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