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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 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).
I wanted to update everyone on my testing. So far so good with the new AC7260, the old card was obviously working since the only issue was with the Orbi but 4 days with no issues using the new card. Maybe some component changes on the new card?