It really depends on the hardware. I have some laptops at work that won't reconnect their integrated Intel NICs coming out of sleep in XP. My laptop at home has a Netgear wireless card and it reconnects automatically out of sleep just fine; same with the Nvidia NIC on my home PC. I've seen other W-NICs have a hard time reconnecting out of sleep mode.
> -----Original Message----- > 1. Having a computer "sleep" means to stop all program execution, but > keep > everything in memory so it can be started again pretty fast. (OK, this > is > an oversimplification). > > So keeping it connected would require not going to sleep. You can > always > set the power settings to power off the screen but keep everything else > running. > > 2. I once made the modification to automatically reconnect when coming > back > from sleep or hibernation, but I gave up on Vista and don't have it > accessible to verify. Dang. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
