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Will this wireless card workaround cause any problems?

I recently purchased a Gateway laptop with a built-in high-speed Marvell wireless LAN. After reading customer reviews, it appears everyone is having issues with the wireless card not working due to a flaky driver and a possible BIOS bug. Someone posted a workaround and mine seems to be working now. I don't know a lot about computers, so I'm wondering if this is a safe and secure workaround, or do you foresee any problems I might have in the future? Here's the solution that was posted: 1) Go to Device Manager and click to properties of the Marvell Top Dog WLAN card. Hit uninstall (it will then uninstall and reinstall itself, thus actually activating/powering up the card). 2) Go back to properties, click the Power Management tab, uncheck the checkbox for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" 3) Restart computer, enter BIOS, look for a setting called Internal WLAN Power State. The default setting is Resume - change this setting to ON.

Public Comments

1. I don't see any problems with that. All you did was uninstall and then reinstall the LAN's drivers. The power management just relates to what the computer is suppose to do when the laptop is on but not in use for so long to try and save on power. You basically just told it to stay on all the time. You just might drain your battery a little faster is all.