Wireless card stops working

[ashkan21]

Hi all,

I have a Buffalo wireless card for my laptop running in windows xp.
Once in a while the card will stop working and I have to reboot the
machine in order to get it to work again. It usually happens
overnight, when I come in the morning to use it, it is not working.
I've tried taking the card out and plugging it back into the PCMCIA
slot, but it seems that whole port dies because windows doesn't even
detect that hardware is being removed or added to the machine. My only
solution is to reboot the computer. This has been happening quite
frequently lately.

Anyway to fix this?
Thanks.

 

[Guest]

If you have the laptop powered on during the night, it seems the machine is
going into hibernation/standby after which the card is unable to wake itself
on. If this is right, the wireless card needs drive update. You will find
BIOS updates too at the laptop's manufacturer website.

 

[Li'l Roberto]

Goto Device Manager R/Click your NIC > Properties > Power Management tab,
remove the check from "Allow the computer to turn of this device to
save power"

[You may also have a utility from Buffalo running in the sys tray to
do the above],
rgds
Li'l Roberto