bsod on external aerial connection

[L earner]

I've spent days trawling the Internet for help but have found nothing for my
specific problem.
I have a laptop, Windows XP. USB connection to wireless LAN card, Lucent to
N male of cable to external omni directional aerial picking up open wifi
signal.
This configuration is about 6 years old and has worked well, mostly. I have
had occassional BSOD's 0xa errors when there have been problems with the
source signal and/or automatic downloads. Always resolved themselves if I
took the laptop to a source close enough to use the internal wifi and
downloaded the updates.
This time it's not working and every time I connect the aerial I get a bsod.
This does not happen if I connect the wireless card without the aerial. I
have replaced the lucent to N cable, re-installed the Agere driver, used
ccleaner to clean up registry.
Disc check shows \BOOTEX.LOG 1st allocation unit invalid. Truncated.
Temp file shows problem with \sysdata.xml
1000000a, 0x1c,0x0,0x80502CB7
I'm technically challenged - the above means little to me so if anyone can
help please instruct me in enough detail.
Help gratefully received.

 

[Pavel A.]

BSOD 0xa (a.k.a. "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL") is a driver problem.
If you have the latest driver for your Agere device, there is
nothing else left to do, besides of dumping this wi-fi adapter and
getting a new one.
If you feel lucky, call Agere's support - but they obviouly can claim
that something other is the culprit: Windows, or 3rd party
antivirus, or whatever.

Goog luck,
--PA

 

[L earner]

Thanks for your reply. I already uninstalled the driver and re-installed it.
It's a generic driver available for free download. Windows tells me that the
driver is fine. When the LAN card is connected it works fine. It bsod's when
I connect the aerial, i.e. when the computer is trying to connect to a wifi
station via the aerial. It connects fine via the LAN card if I take the
laptop within range.

 

[Pavel A.]

Thanks for your reply. I already uninstalled the driver and re-installed it.
It's a generic driver available for free download. Windows tells me that the
driver is fine. When the LAN card is connected it works fine. It bsod's when
I connect the aerial, i.e. when the computer is trying to connect to a wifi
station via the aerial. It connects fine via the LAN card if I take the
laptop within range.

Still it looks for me like a driver bug
(maybe, triggered by the firmware level problem, because of unusual
signal conditions)

--PA

 

[L earner]

I've installed another driver and same problem. Today I went into event
viewer and here is the error (i logged the time of bsod and this event
corresponds). I looked it up on help and support and this is what I found:

Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 8003
Source: MRxSmb
Version: 5.0
Symbolic Name: EVENT_BOWSER_OTHER_MASTER_ON_NET
Message: The master browser has received a server announcement from the
computer %2

This feels to me like the problem. How can i fix it?
Thanks.

 

[Pavel A.]

Unlikely that this eventlog message is related to the BSOD.
The only good way to understand the BSOD is getting the wireless adapter
vendor to look at the crash data (aka "kernel dump" or "minidump").

--PA

 

[L earner]

Hi PA.....I've installed another driver and all is good. Thanks for your help.