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| Thread ID: 89089 | 2008-04-20 14:01:00 | Wireless Issues with Toshiba Tecra P5 | davehartley (3487) | Press F1 |
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| 660620 | 2008-04-20 14:01:00 | At the end of last year, my laptop lease came due, so I upgraded to a Toshiba Tecra P5. It's been fine to use -- excellent, actually! -- except for an annoying "feature". Every so often, the wireless networking just "disappears". Falls off. Vanishes. "Bye-bye". It appears that the wirelesses network adapter 'disables' itself, and cannot be re-enabled other than a restart of the laptop, whereupon all is fine again. This can last a couple of weeks, then it does it again. When it does go, it takes the Bluetooth with it. I'm of the opinion that it's a physical problem with the internal wireless card -- has anyone else had anything similar happen? If so, what did you do to fix it? :thanks |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 660621 | 2008-04-20 14:32:00 | It could be because of some power options set for the laptop. Check if the "Disable network adapters after xxmins" isn't set somewhere. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 660622 | 2009-03-14 23:40:00 | Gah. This is still a problem. A bit more information ... it appears that the network adapter is not faulty, as while running Linux my laptop I had absolutely no problem with the wireless networking. Switching back to Win XP has brought the problem back. (And, yes, I know the "obvious" answer is to use Linux ...) I'm guessing it's a driver issue? After installing SP3, it seems that whatever happens causes Explorer to throw up a "Data Execution Prevention" error box, whereupon my lappy restarts after a while, and all is back to "normal" ... until next time. Has anyone ever had anything like this happen? Where to from here? |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 660623 | 2009-03-14 23:47:00 | Try this (support.microsoft.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 660624 | 2009-03-14 23:49:00 | Go to device manager>right click your wireless adapter>properties. Should be an option in the advanced tab or somewhere to turn off this device to save power. Set it to "No" or untick the checkbox. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 660625 | 2009-03-15 00:16:00 | Try this (support.microsoft.com) Thanks Speedy -- will look into that. Should be an option in the advanced tab or somewhere to turn off this device to save power. Hi Blam -- already done, still having this problem :groan: |
davehartley (3487) | ||
| 660626 | 2009-03-15 02:01:00 | Have you tried uninstalling it using the manufacturers removal tool, then installing the latest version? | Blam (54) | ||
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