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Intel AC7260 issues with Orbi
Since the latest FW update I've started having issues with the AC7260 wifi card driver locking up my laptop (hard reboot required). I've tried updating the 7260 FW and removing and rinstalling the d...
I've done some additional testing and if I disable 5Ghz on the card, everything seems to work fine. I've now tested at 5Ghz on 4 other newer APs with no issue but I still can't use the Orbi at 5Ghz without the card locking up.
This was not happening on a previous firmware?
DarrenM
For me it only started with latest firmware and I have had the Orbi when it first released.
Just a datapoint, if it's any help - no issues with the 8260 (newer chipset) here.
Rodney
Have latest driver for AC7260? If Orbi f/w is a problem, go back to last f/w until the fix the problem on latest f/w.
I've been out of the country for the last two weeks so I haven't been able to test but I'm hoping to get to the bottom of this. While traveling I removed the intel proset wireless tools, Lenovo connection tool and uninstalled the latest intel driver and went back to the latest Lenovo driver (2 revisions behind). Whle traveling to 5 different hotels and multiple customer sites in two countries I had 0 issues, within 30 min of connecting back to my Orbi my driver was locked and required a hard boot.
While I was gone I had Lenovo send me a new7260 which is now installed. It has been about an hour and so far so good, we'll see if it's still OK in the morning. If this fails I'll go back 3 or 4 Orbi FW versions and see what happens.
Unfortunaly Lenovo has a whitelist per laptop and the BIOS doesn't allow anything but a 7260 in the W541 (a huge PITA).
