wifi question 177

My experience (very limited) with setting up my daughter's wireless laptop when she is home from school. I discovered that the Dell Inspiron laptop defaults to shutting off the CAT5 Lan card when the laptop is running on battery power. However, the wifi adapter is also "off" unless first set to search for a wifi access point.

What I did, with a lot of help from the guys here was to set the laptop default power settings to auto search for a wifi access point when going off charger and into battery power. Then I set the Laptop's default settings to not try to set up it's own little wifi network. At least I think that is what it was defaulting to -- "establish wireless network" was the message. Then I cold booted the entire system. Looking at the Linksys wifeless router then revealed that everyone on the network was refreshed and the laptop was there. So far, plugging into the power adapter and then unplugging has not effected the wifi capability.

I don't know if this is helpful to you, but hope it is.

Cheers,

Dave

prg

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