I’m connecting to the internet via a wireless transmitter that is hooked up to a DSL connection. When I turn on my laptop, everything works as expected. When I hibernate it, then wake it back up, I have “limited or no connectivity.” When I try to “repair” the connection, I’m unable to get the IP address reassigned. If I restart the computer, everything works fine.
Any ideas about what’s going on? I don’t know what other information might be relevant, but I can dig it up if it might help someone figure out what’s going on here.
I’ve had a few other weird problems, like occasionally having my email program (thunderbird) work fine but not having my browsers able to connect to anything, but I haven’t yet tested this rigorously to figure out exactly when it happens. I don’t know if that’s related at all.
I recall having the same issue and I just got into the habit of disabling wireless (I had a button on the laptop body that did this) and then hibernating. I don’t recall ever finding a solution.
It’s probably an issue with the device driver for the wireless transceiver. It isn’t restoring the device to an operational state when the laptop wakes up.
Nah , but I haven’t spent much time fiddling with it. I did have some out-of-date drivers, but the new ones didn’t fix anything. I also tried dissabling the wireless (via a little button on my Compaq laptop) before hibernation, but that doesn’t fix it either. I haven’t tried it out on a different wireless connection yet. There’s still more to try.
I really hate trying to fix stuff that requires a restart every time I change something, so procrastination tends to happen instead.
Yes! That’s happened a few times, but I haven’t figured out exactly the circumstances that cause it to occur. Weird stuff.
I’ll mess around with it some more eventually, but I dunno when. I’ll resurrect the thread if I find anything out.
I had the same problem with my laptop. My solution was to erase the hard drive and re-install Windows. All the stuff I installed and un-installed over the years left stuff on the computer that slowed it down and caused problems with my wireless connection. I just wish that Windows would force programs to completely uninstall instead of leave stuff in the registry, program folders, dll’s, etc.
I have the same issue with my G4 PowerBook and certain routers (specifically, the DI-624 I’m currently using at home). Disabling the AirPort card and then re-enabling seems to take care of it. On some other routers, this just doesn’t happen. I suspect it has less to do with the device driver (at least on my laptop) than slight differences in the implementation of the 802.11g protocol with different wireless routers. I’ve never had this problem with AirPort or AirPort Extreme routers, which are a strongly adhering implementation of the protocol.
, but I haven’t spent much time fiddling with it. I did have some out-of-date drivers, but the new ones didn’t fix anything. I also tried dissabling the wireless (via a little button on my Compaq laptop) before hibernation, but that doesn’t fix it either. I haven’t tried it out on a different wireless connection yet. There’s still more to try.