Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

[Hewitt Tech]

It's been a while since I deliberately forced the machine into standby
although it would only take a few minutes. My vague recollection is that
stopping/removing/reinserting the card didn't help. In fact I concluded at
the time that it was YAWB (yet another Windows Bug). If I had a nickel for
every hour I've spent chasing windows problem... ;^(

-Alex

P.S. My favorite (not) windows bugs are the ones associated with the AMD K6
processors. You end up with a very unstable machine but when you put Linux
or any of the NT variants on these systems magically everything works.

----- Original Message -----
From: <bscott at ntisys.com>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 10:37am, hewitt_tech at attbi.com wrote:
> I've seen something similar with my laptop Win 2k using a wireless card.
> Everything works fine until the laptop, running on battery, desides to go
> to standby mode. When the system wakes up it's pretty much impossible to
> revive the network connection off the wireless card.

  That is likely not so much the power saving, but the card itself, or maybe
the device drivers.  The OS should be telling the card to "wake back up", so
to speak.  If you "Stop" and then remove the card, and then reinsert it,
does it start working?

  In general, most of the off-the-shell "WiFi" stuff I've played with has
been rather flakey.  I don't know if it is because manufacturers are cutting
too many corners, or something inherent in the standard, or because the
technology is immature, or what.  It has made me appreciate the reliability
of good old fashioned UTP, though.  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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