yes, would be great if the PCMCIA/USB 2.0 issue would be resolved after WU but I'm sceptical... Addressing questions in your previous... ...as mentioned in previous - power should not be a problem, max. data rate is the bottleneck. ...should work - could be a number of reasons; Hardware related, eg. power issues, interference and software related, eg. PCMCIA card- or USB port config./settings. Unfortunately I don't have XP on any of my boxes but I bet the're are a lot of members who do. Hopefully someone will reply.
Thank your for your reply! That explains that I couldn't connect my WPA2 secured wifi with the Windows XP lite versions, as they all are without SP or with SP1 only! Regarding to PCMCIA matters: I think that interference was the main course of not functioning well of my connection. Connecting through an extern USB modem by using an USB cable of about 1 meter between the computer and the modem, helps to establish a more stabile connection. So IMHO the modem too close to the computer caused the connection to be impossible sometimes or to be very instabile. Can somebody confirm that? Does this make sense?
Yes, I know! I was aware of your reply! But I am eager to know if more people would have experienced the same situation - if this would be the same reason my inbuilt wifi modem of another notebook I have performs less than an external USB modem.
Well, I own this ThinkPad notebook and experienced simular issues. Connecting a Linksys USB 2.0 WLAN adapter directly to the USB port almost halves radio reception due to interference. I solved this issue by using a short USB extension cable.
Ok, nice to hear that! So it workes like I thought! If I inderstood well you don't make use of the inbuilt WLAN functionality of your ThinkPad notebook -you probably disabled it in Device Manager -, but use the extern Linksys USB 20 WLAN adapter instead! Thank you very much for replying and your good information!
I 'inherited' the IBM ThinkPad notebook from a family member who 'upgraded' and didn't have any use for it anymore - No internal WLAN (miniPCI) present so I made good use of an Linksys USB 2.0 B/G WLAN adapter I had laying around. Replaced the original OS Windows XP Professional with Crunchbang Waldorf *an Openbox Linux distro* and the ThinkPad is happy again.
We got off track, this thread started off with Windows 7 - next Windows XP - now Linux (specially since this thread is in the Windows 7 section) Anyways, probably yes, you're better off with XP HOWEVER it all depends on how you configure Linux. - Keep in mind Crunchbang Waldorf is based on Debian 7.0 Wheezy (lastest stable) ...You really can't compare Debian 7.0 (2013) with XP (2001) / XP SP3 (2008) lol Why don't you just try if it works for you; Play around for a bit. Considering your laptops specs I really can't recommend running Linux from USB flashdrive (Live). However, You can easely install Linux next to Windows XP. No problem at all.
Thank you for your suggestions! I will stay with Window XP, as it is impossible to install from the CD: the data is too large to fit on the CD. Installing from USB isn't possible, as the BIOS doesn't allow the USB port to be a start-up device. Again: I appreciate your concern!