switching to/from battery kills WiFi

[MarkR]

Hi, all:

On my XP laptop, when I switch from AC power to battery, the WiFi network
connection dies and gets replaced by the 169... null IP address. I must
manually disconnect and reconnect to restore a true IP.

Does anyone know of a way to either stop this happening, or automate this
release/renew process?

Thank you,
/m

 

[Bob Willard]

Hi, all:

On my XP laptop, when I switch from AC power to battery, the WiFi network
connection dies and gets replaced by the 169... null IP address. I must
manually disconnect and reconnect to restore a true IP.

Does anyone know of a way to either stop this happening, or automate this
release/renew process?

Thank you,
/m

Try disabling the power management function on your WiFi NIC.

 

[MarkR]

Try disabling the power management function on your WiFi NIC.

Thank you for your suggestion, Bob. Unfortunately, I already had the NIC set
to "Constant Availability Mode" (CAM), and trying the other settings did not
seem to ameliorate the problem.

Can anyone suggest a way for automating the release/renew steps? Is there a
shortcut?

Thanks again,
/m

 

[Chuck]

Thank you for your suggestion, Bob. Unfortunately, I already had the NIC set
to "Constant Availability Mode" (CAM), and trying the other settings did not
seem to ameliorate the problem.

Can anyone suggest a way for automating the release/renew steps? Is there a
shortcut?

Thanks again,
/m

Mark,

It's not hard to write your own shortcut. Copy the two lines inside the #######
into Notepad:

#######
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
#######

Save the file as "ip.cmd", as type "All files", into any convenient folder.
Create a shortcut to the file just created, put the folder wherever you wish.
Or just drop ip.cmd on your desktop.

Cheers,
Chuck
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