Wireless Adapter Usually Disabled on Startup in XP

[ajkessel]

Using XP SP2 on a Lenovo X60 laptop, my wireless card is usually (but
not always) disabled on startup or resume from hibernation. It doesn't
matter whether the hardware switch for the card is on or off. It also
doesn't seem to matter what the state of the card was when the machine
was last shut down or hibernated. I thus need to manually go into the
network settings and re-enable it.

Any ideas what is causing this? Is there some way to fix it so the
default state is already on?

Failing that, is there a command line script that would enable the
adapter that I could add to my startup scripts?

 

[wilscott1st]

Using XP SP2 on a Lenovo X60 laptop, my wireless card is usually (but
not always) disabled on startup or resume from hibernation. It doesn't
matter whether the hardware switch for the card is on or off. It also
doesn't seem to matter what the state of the card was when the machine
was last shut down or hibernated. I thus need to manually go into the
network settings and re-enable it.

Any ideas what is causing this? Is there some way to fix it so the
default state is already on?

Failing that, is there a command line script that would enable the
adapter that I could add to my startup scripts?

perhaps there's a hardware profile setup on the laptop that disables
the card?

 

[ajkessel]

perhaps there's a hardware profile setup on the laptop that disables
the card?

Good suggestion, but I don't see any hardware profiles at all defined
in control panel->system->hardware profiles. I also looked under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles and
didn't see anything relevant, but I wonder if I can set something
there that will fix the problem?