Frustrating Wireless Card problem

[MisterBob]

Currently on an IBM Thinkpad T61, Windows Vista Ultimate (ugh, I know, lolVista) is my current OS, although I'm thinking of going back to XP if I can get off my ass and back things up.

Essentially, seemingly completely randomly, my laptop will completely lock up for around one second. After it unfreezes, the Wireless Card dies completely. Turning it off/on does absolutely nothing. It happens at least once every two days, and when it does, I have to do a complete reboot to get it back (at least, so I think. There may be some way to get it working again without a reboot, but I have no idea why.)

Does anyone have any idea as to why this would be happening? Maybe bad drivers or something?

[Kimiko]

Well, I don't know much about the hardware side of wireless adapters and such, but I would look into drivers being the primary cause first.

[Sigi]

Probably a driver issue. If you want to be incredibly masochistic, you could boot to the diagnostic partition on your system (tap F12 on a Dell, dunno other brands) and run a full system diagnostic to see if it's something major.

Oh wait...