Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread bscott
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 10:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen something similar with my laptop Win 2k using a wireless card. Everything works fine until the laptop, running on battery, desides to go to standby mode. When the system wakes up it's pretty much impossible to revive the

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 10:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen something similar with my laptop Win 2k using a wireless

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
. This problem has been out there for a while, about a year, so hopefully the fix is readily available. - Original Message - From: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hewitt Tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread bscott
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 11:34am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. My favorite (not) windows bugs are the ones associated with the AMD K6 processors. You end up with a very unstable machine but when you put Linux or any of the NT variants on these systems magically everything works. To be fair,

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 11:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had a nickel for every hour I've spent chasing windows problem... ;^( Amen to that. P.S

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Bayard R. Coolidge
Ben Scott pointed out: Keep in mind that the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) for Microsoft Windows is a lot shorter than the pool of available hardware. If it is not on the HCL, Microsoft makes no promises as to whether Windows will work. We had the same sort of issue on Digital UNIX/Tru64

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread bscott
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 12:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is though Ben, the machine I had the most trouble with was manufactured by a now merged PC company called Compaq. That's nice. Was it on the HCL? :-) With the original factory installation the machine wouldn't run more than

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
after the warranty expired. Bottom line, caveat emptor! -Alex - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 12:16pm, [EMAIL

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 12:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is though Ben, the machine I had the most trouble with was manufactured by a now merged PC company called Compaq. That's nice

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Komarinski
Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:41 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 12:16pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thing is though Ben, the machine I had the most

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:16:50PM -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote: For example, I don't like buying Dells because a laptop I had

Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff)

2003-01-15 Thread Hewitt Tech
] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Wireless weirdness (was: NT Stuff) On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, at 1:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They tried and failed to reliably connect to 3 different ISPs with the built-in Rockwell/Conexant winmodem. RANT SUBJECT=software modems PRIORITY