What does (or might) "Wake On LAN" have to do with this problem, exactly?
2010/3/24 Larry Finger <[email protected]>: > On 03/23/2010 03:31 PM, Chris Lopes wrote: >> Ok. I got my wireless card to detect networks again. I also had a >> theory and tried to reproduce the problem, and was successful in doing >> so. Here are my steps to reproduce: >> 1) Have Vista running and connected to a wireless network >> 2) Hibernate Vista >> 3) Boot Parted Magic from a USB drive >> 4) Start the network in Parted Magic, ask it to use wireless, and then >> attempt to connect to my normal SSID, which at this point sees the >> SSID, but cannot connect due to an apparent DHCP lease error >> 5) Start the network in Parted Magic again, which this time fails with >> a generic error and does not show any SSID's (starting it a second >> time is necessary to reproduce the problem) >> 6) Reboot >> 7) Resume Vista >> 8) At this point, Vista loses connectivity to the wireless network >> 9) Reboot Vista >> 10) Vista still cannot see any wireless networks >> 11) Shutdown >> 12) Remove power cord and battery and wait a bit >> 13) Boot Vista, and it now works and sees the network >> >> As you just eluded to, it seems that the power-down and battery >> removal is necessary >> What do you think is the culprit here? > > You should never hibernate one OS and run a different one. That is a > prescription for disaster. Although there is nothing in the BCM4312 that can > be > changed, Vista could set a given state in the BIOS that is destroyed by > booting > Linux. Fortunately, this info seems to be in volatile memory, thus the power > off > and battery removal fixes it. > > You might look at the BIOS settings to see if there is a "Wake On LAN" option > for the wireless. It should be off. > > Larry > _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
