Sprint Merlin s720 and Thinkpad T60P not working

rmalone@fhlbi.com · EVDO Newbie Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

have a similar experence with the Sprint Novatel Wireless Merlin S720 card. I have a Thinkpad T60P running XP sp2. I can't even get into the network. After selecting the connection manager and connect, the message status stays connecting and then immediately switches to disconnecting. I have reinstalled the software along with uninstalling the drivers. I have a very good signal and the green light is on.

The sprint tech support team wants me to go back to the factory default on my machine which I wont do. Everything works perfectly on the Laptop.

I have even uninstalled my anti-virus protection and disabled the microsoft firewall during the troubleshooting stages.

I think it's a driver binding issue but I can't get anyone with sufficient technical background to look into the matter.

Sprint tech has given up and they want me to switch to another EDO card manufacture.

For some strange reason - I am also seeing a red x on NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller under the Universal Serial Bus Controllers in the Device Manager. I enable it and it stays enabled until you connect using the sprint connection manager.

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2004

We have some T60s and I'll see if someone could try my s720 card. BTW, my host controller also has the red X yet still works fine on my T42.

I do see disconnects on my T42 if WiFi or Ethernet takes over. It's just the nature of Windows drivers that have many active connections. There are ways to prioritize using IBM's Access Connections manager. You can download it for free as a Thinkpad user. Or for testing purposes, try disabling WiFi and ethernet connections and see if EVDO connection stays up. If so, get Access Connections.

Also try forcing either EVDO or 1xRTT in Connection Manager. It could also be that you are between two conflicting towers

Use the IBM software installer to get AC and update all of your drivers...
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4ZKMCT