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Advent laptop, windows xp media edition

After boot it is necessary to press a button to start the wireless network
card.

If the computer closes down into hibernate mode rather than full close down
the networkcard has stopped when it restarts. The button now does not
restart it.

How can I restart the network card without a full close down and restart?

--
Jim Bunton

have you spoken to tech support for the company that made the
laptop? is there a BIOS upgrade for that laptop? is there a new
driver for the NIC?

posting the text output of ipconfig /all will help identify the NIC
if you cannot

http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.c...t-text-output/


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:13:54 +0100, "Jim Bunton"
<> wrote:

>Advent laptop, windows xp media edition
>
>After boot it is necessary to press a button to start the wireless network
>card.
>
>If the computer closes down into hibernate mode rather than full close down
>the networkcard has stopped when it restarts. The button now does not
>restart it.
>
>How can I restart the network card without a full close down and restart?
--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

Hi
First I would suggest to read this as a general understanding that StandBy
and Hibernation are Not the same.
Standby, Hibernation, Wake On Line, http://www.ezlan.net/standby.html
When a computer is used as part of a Network (or Internet) it is important
to take the Network components out of the StandBy "equation".
Make sure that the computer's standby is configured to react to LAN traffic
and the printer traffic will take it out of standby and would print.
In some computers there is a BIOS entry that has to be switched to On to
indicate reaction to allow Network traffic.
In addition look into the OS' power saving setting as well as any prosperity
standby utility (if any) and make sure that they are switching off the
network capacity of the computer. Make sure that the Network card of the
computer with the printer is not set to use the power saving. I.e. the
computer can go to Standby but the network card has to stay On (
http://www.ezlan.net/example/powersave.jpg ).
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Jim Bunton" <> wrote in message
news:47b2b4f1$0$16208$...
> Advent laptop, windows xp media edition
>
> After boot it is necessary to press a button to start the wireless network
> card.
>
> If the computer closes down into hibernate mode rather than full close
> down the networkcard has stopped when it restarts. The button now does not
> restart it.
>
> How can I restart the network card without a full close down and restart?
>
> --
> Jim Bunton
>
>

Hi Jack,
Thank you for your response. It is clearly presented and informative. There
are areas here I hadn't thought of looking in. I will investigate these.

A point I would like to add is that I am quite happy for the machine to
enter either standby or hibernate modes for the purposes of power saving and
convenience (eg just closing the lid at the end of a session rather than
doing a full switch off). I am happy that under these conditions that the
nework card is switched off - I don't really want/need the machine to
automatically 'wake up' on the receipt of network signals.

What I DO want is to be able to switch the network card on again when it
'wakes up' from hibernate or standby without having to close down and do a
full restart. It is only by doing this that the button "switch on network
card" works. I can find no place in computer management for example where I
can do this and the button remains stubbornly inactive until full restart.

As soon as time permits I will investigate the bios settings which I haven't
done as yet.

Thanks again

Jim Bunton

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi
> First I would suggest to read this as a general understanding that StandBy
> and Hibernation are Not the same.
> Standby, Hibernation, Wake On Line, http://www.ezlan.net/standby.html
> When a computer is used as part of a Network (or Internet) it is important
> to take the Network components out of the StandBy "equation".
> Make sure that the computer's standby is configured to react to LAN
> traffic and the printer traffic will take it out of standby and would
> print.
> In some computers there is a BIOS entry that has to be switched to On to
> indicate reaction to allow Network traffic.
> In addition look into the OS' power saving setting as well as any
> prosperity standby utility (if any) and make sure that they are switching
> off the network capacity of the computer. Make sure that the Network card
> of the computer with the printer is not set to use the power saving. I.e.
> the computer can go to Standby but the network card has to stay On (
> http://www.ezlan.net/example/powersave.jpg ).
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Jim Bunton" <> wrote in message
> news:47b2b4f1$0$16208$...
>> Advent laptop, windows xp media edition
>>
>> After boot it is necessary to press a button to start the wireless
>> network card.
>>
>> If the computer closes down into hibernate mode rather than full close
>> down the networkcard has stopped when it restarts. The button now does
>> not restart it.
>>
>> How can I restart the network card without a full close down and restart?
>>
>> --
>> Jim Bunton
>>
>>
>

Hi
Are you sure that switch On Network card is invoked by Windows per-se and
Not some manufacturer propriety application.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Jim Bunton" <> wrote in message
news:47b40bfd$0$20096$...
> Hi Jack,
> Thank you for your response. It is clearly presented and informative.
> There are areas here I hadn't thought of looking in. I will investigate
> these.
>
> A point I would like to add is that I am quite happy for the machine to
> enter either standby or hibernate modes for the purposes of power saving
> and convenience (eg just closing the lid at the end of a session rather
> than doing a full switch off). I am happy that under these conditions that
> the nework card is switched off - I don't really want/need the machine to
> automatically 'wake up' on the receipt of network signals.
>
> What I DO want is to be able to switch the network card on again when it
> 'wakes up' from hibernate or standby without having to close down and do a
> full restart. It is only by doing this that the button "switch on network
> card" works. I can find no place in computer management for example where
> I can do this and the button remains stubbornly inactive until full
> restart.
>
> As soon as time permits I will investigate the bios settings which I
> haven't done as yet.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Jim Bunton
>
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi
>> First I would suggest to read this as a general understanding that
>> StandBy and Hibernation are Not the same.
>> Standby, Hibernation, Wake On Line, http://www.ezlan.net/standby.html
>> When a computer is used as part of a Network (or Internet) it is
>> important to take the Network components out of the StandBy "equation".
>> Make sure that the computer's standby is configured to react to LAN
>> traffic and the printer traffic will take it out of standby and would
>> print.
>> In some computers there is a BIOS entry that has to be switched to On to
>> indicate reaction to allow Network traffic.
>> In addition look into the OS' power saving setting as well as any
>> prosperity standby utility (if any) and make sure that they are switching
>> off the network capacity of the computer. Make sure that the Network card
>> of the computer with the printer is not set to use the power saving. I.e.
>> the computer can go to Standby but the network card has to stay On (
>> http://www.ezlan.net/example/powersave.jpg ).
>> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>>
>> "Jim Bunton" <> wrote in message
>> news:47b2b4f1$0$16208$...
>>> Advent laptop, windows xp media edition
>>>
>>> After boot it is necessary to press a button to start the wireless
>>> network card.
>>>
>>> If the computer closes down into hibernate mode rather than full close
>>> down the networkcard has stopped when it restarts. The button now does
>>> not restart it.
>>>
>>> How can I restart the network card without a full close down and
>>> restart?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Bunton
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>