Wireless Connection Gone After Hibernate

[SeanDotson]

I have a laptop with a MS wireless card that ran flawlessly for over a year. I recently formatted the machine and have it back up and running. After a hibernate (closing the lid) when it awakes it "sees" the wireless connection (has good signal strength) but it will not connect to the Internet. I have to repair the connect (or do a ipconfig/release /renew) or sometimes even reboot to get it to connect.

I seem to recall a patch for this but I'm up to date on SPs. Any clues?

Thanks...

 

[bcastner]

Do a disable then enable sequence instead.
There were "fixes" for this in the wireless rollup:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826942

And in Service Pack 2. Many manufacturers as well offered updated drivers for this an other issues.

 

[SeanDotson]

Thanks. I have SP2 but will have a look at the wireless rollup.

 

[bcastner]

For SP2 you will not need the rollup.
It becomes a device driver issue.