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Title: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Aske on February 16, 2008, 06:46:12 AM everytime my laptop goes into hibernation mode or gets a windows update (which is a lot in the last few days!) the wireless card loses its connection to my router and normal 'repair' doesnt work. it views the available networks, so it isn't completely broken, and if i run a tcp/ip stack reset while it's trying the repair then it just magically , instantly, 'fixes'
??? Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Walfredo on February 16, 2008, 08:47:21 AM really long cables
I had to Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: birdymaker on February 16, 2008, 09:21:48 AM somebody had to.
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Aske on February 16, 2008, 09:34:09 AM hate!
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: spacey on February 16, 2008, 09:40:43 AM Reboot
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: dystopia on February 16, 2008, 09:48:55 AM I used to have something similar to this a while ago. What kind of wifi adapter are you packing? Built into the laptop? PCMCIA/PC card? (looks like you said card, what model?)
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Spanky on February 16, 2008, 09:53:27 AM Sometimes wireless sucks
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: dystopia on February 16, 2008, 09:54:35 AM What happens if you go to |Power Options|Hibernate and uncheck "Enable Hibernation"? Does that change the behavior at all?
I'm curious if the problem happens in both "System Standby" mode as well as "Hibernate" mode. Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: dystopia on February 16, 2008, 10:20:18 AM Another question:
Does the same behavior happen when you use the either the Windows Wifi or the manufacturer's wifi software? My problems were with an internal Intel 2200BG wifi adapter and were similar to this: http://forums.techguy.org/networking/638178-xp-wireless-connection-breaks-after.html Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Aske on February 16, 2008, 10:36:07 AM ill try the unenable hibernate- no idea yet
regarding hardware: dell inspiron 1150 craptop with builtin dell wlan 1350 mini-pci card, driver from broadcom 3.40.73.0 controlled by built in dell/windows wifi manager software regarding software: windows xp, sp2 with all current updates, microsoft office, kaspersky is 7.0 (with all current updates) , and firefox -- almost nothing else installed (putty , winscp, etc). Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Aske on February 16, 2008, 10:39:16 AM i suppose i can write some sort of script to automate running the tcp/ip stack reset, it's just silly to need to
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Spanky on February 16, 2008, 02:22:08 PM Get an iPhone. [sm_devil]
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: dystopia on February 16, 2008, 02:44:39 PM dell inspiron 1150 craptop with builtin dell wlan 1350 mini-pci card, driver from broadcom 3.40.73.0 Is that broadcom driver the same as this one? http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R115321&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_1150&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=7945&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=11&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=152055 Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Aske on February 16, 2008, 03:33:12 PM yeh, i think so. i mean, i have dl'd and run that patch
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Uisce Beatha on February 16, 2008, 04:27:59 PM ubuntu
[sm_devil] Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: Jules on February 17, 2008, 01:03:21 PM Are you asking me. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: gleek on February 17, 2008, 04:32:37 PM I read somewhere that changing your power settings to "High Performance" might solve the problem.
I've been having the same problem as you, and yesterday I spent a couple of hours trying to find the solution. After changing my power settings last night to "High Performance", my wireless connection did die on me one more time, but since shutting it down for the night and turning it back on this morning, it hasn't died on me yet. *knock on wood* As for resetting TCP/IP you can run from the Command window (or in a BAT file): netsh winsock reset Title: Re: Most Bizarre PC Problem- any ideas? Post by: gleek on February 20, 2008, 07:56:05 AM I read somewhere that changing your power settings to "High Performance" might solve the problem. I've been having the same problem as you, and yesterday I spent a couple of hours trying to find the solution. After changing my power settings last night to "High Performance", my wireless connection did die on me one more time, but since shutting it down for the night and turning it back on this morning, it hasn't died on me yet. *knock on wood* As for resetting TCP/IP you can run from the Command window (or in a BAT file): netsh winsock reset Well, it turns out neither of these actions worked. Yesterday, I tried turning off TCP/IPv6 support on my network adapter. We'll see if that works. |