Wireless connection for T42p fail

[citimeta]

I have this weird problem. If I close my lid and system goes to hibernation or standby, I will lose my internet through wireless connection after the system is activated again even though the 'IBM connection' program says a perfect connection is at work. I tried to disable the wireless antena and reenable it. The same thing will happen: antena gets good signal and shows connection while no real internet connection is availible.

[davidspalding]

Little bit of a pain in the derriere, but when I suspend or hibernate, I log off first. It closes connections, and also ENSURES that a password is needed to use (should it fall into enemy hands).

[citimeta]

Little bit of a pain in the derriere, but when I suspend or hibernate, I log off first. It closes connections, and also ENSURES that a password is needed to use (should it fall into enemy hands).

Thank you for reminding me this. I tried this also. When I log back in again the connection is also lost The only way to get back the connection is to reboot, which is driving me crazy.

[GomJabbar]

I used to have this problem, but it has gone away.

I am using the latest version of Access Connections 4.0 and the latest wireless driver for my Intel 2200BG wireless adapter, version 9.0.2.31. I also have set up my TCP/IP configuration manually for my home wireless connection. IE: IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and DNS server addresses. All other IBM and Microsoft software is the latest version.

I also disabled and stopped the Wireless Zero Configuration service while at home. But just yesterday I noticed after I left home that when I boot up and have the wireless radio off, the boot up takes too long with the Wireless Zero Configuration service disabled and stopped. So now I have the service set to automatic and started. I will test again when I get home to see if having the service on affects my WiFi connection (this won't be for awhile). [I use a Cingular EDGE PC card for my internet access away from home.]

EDIT: BTW, I don't log off when I go into Standby. When I resume from Standby I type in my Windows screen saver password and I am connected. I do not have to log onto my internet service again. I have an Earthlink DSL connection to my wireless router/AP.

[citimeta]

I used to have this problem, but it has gone away.

I am using the latest version of Access Connections 4.0 and the latest wireless driver for my Intel 2200BG wireless adapter, version 9.0.2.31. I also have set up my TCP/IP configuration manually for my home wireless connection. IE: IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, and DNS server addresses. All other IBM and Microsoft software is the latest version.

I also disabled and stopped the Wireless Zero Configuration service while at home. But just yesterday I noticed after I left home that when I boot up and have the wireless radio off, the boot up takes too long with the Wireless Zero Configuration service disabled and stopped. So now I have the service set to automatic and started. I will test again when I get home to see if having the service on affects my WiFi connection (this won't be for awhile). [I use a Cingular EDGE PC card for my internet access away from home.]

EDIT: BTW, I don't log off when I go into Standby. When I resume from Standby I type in my Windows screen saver password and I am connected. I do not have to log onto my internet service again. I have an Earthlink DSL connection to my wireless router/AP.

I have to appologize for my mistake because it should be my T41p instead of T42p...it wouldn't make much difference I think.

I did all the things suggested by GomJabbar and the problem persists. Before anyone gives any more suggestions let me tell a little story how my thinkpad got the problem:

It had worked perfectly well before one day my wireless serviece by comcast was down. I had to get online to do some email checking and I was too lazy to drive back to office. Then I searched for availible wireless signals which were not encripted. I got one and it was good enough for me to do email checking. I was aware of the danger to do so security wise. Everything was ok until some unexpected characters appeared in my editor. These characters were meaningless ones like 'wwwwssssssssssssssssddddddwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww' and so on. To make things more wierd, my mouse was moved when I didn't touch either my mouse pad or my wireless mouse. Aparently, the inputs were not from me. I was a bit confused and felt unlucky because I thought I was attacked. But the simptom seemed to be too weird as a hacker attack. Then I opened up a notepad and recorded all the characters I was getting. Besides the meaningless w's and s's and d's, finally I got some meaningful sentences talking about 'playing as ...' and ' ...kill...'. I was then realized that these inputs were actually someone playing a vedio game. But how my computer would get the inputs from that guy? Unfortunately, before I decided it was just an accident I was scared to be hacked and removed some suspecious files from my system. After that I had the problem I mentioned in my post.

Anyone has a clue on how I can get rid of the problem or why I was receiving those inputs from another computer?

[christopher_wolf]

Well..OK...I..Uhhhhhh

*speechless*

Amazing, I haven't heard something like that happening before. Though I do know that the mouse and the keyboard inputs can be remotely monitored. I am now wondering as to what the phrases were; perhaps they were playing a MUD using PuebloUE or Telnet and some of it filtered through? Maybe, just thinking about it statistically, those chances are very small; yet they are the only ones that make any sense. Let me relate what happened to me a few times...

I always take my Thinkpad on campus and to class, notes, presentations, assignments, etc. I also check email whilst doing those things and always try to connect wirelessly. Connected is easy, yet one time when I came home and tried to connect. There is a Vernier secure web login page that I have to auth through if I want to gain access to the web. Now, I got home one time, and connected wirelessly to the internet and to a different page for a Lab; I got the *Admin Vernier Logon Page*; I was shocked to say the least. Another time, I got the login page, but that would normally not be possible since I was off the AirBears Campus WiFi and on my Home one. So, I managed to track down what I *suspect* causes these little issues. Namely, little certificates that get placed on your Thinkpad, much like some websites do for certain transactions; these certs really change some important settings when they *shouldn't* be changed. I will look into this a bit further.

Cheers

EDIT: I should point out that the only way that I think you can access that Admin page is if you have a Root Authority Certificate for it (which IT/Admins handle); sure enough, that is what I found when I looked. Apparently, some system intiates a cert transaction and puts it onto the Thinkpad where it then starts doing..."Stuff"

[Domain]

Haha, I think the kid was playing CS! Haha, that's great. Wish I had answers....

[christopher_wolf]

I would still go with MUD; since CS is quite complicated and has its own things to handle text; DirectInput for one, and the chances of that getting mixed up with a Windows keyboard input handler are quite small whereas a terminal program such as Telnet or PuebloUE might be more probable.

I found the Certificates through MMC by typing "mmc" in the Run box from the start menu and adding the snap-in certificate service; I will post back if I find anything that helps with Wireless Connections as I have a strong suspicion that these certs that are auto-loaded from another system are what play hide-n-go seek with Access Connections and other applications.


EDIT: I think I found what might cause certain connection problems. I will change it, then go on campus and connect to a variety of different points where I know what their characteristic performance was interfacing with my Thinkpad; just poking and seeing what will and what won't work. I actually have little to no idea what I am doing here.

[jerjun]

I have the same problem. Instead of rebooting I go into the command prompt and type

ipconfig /release

let it do it thing for a second and then type

ipconfig /renew

Its still kind of pain but less time then a reboot

[christopher_wolf]

That can also be done through the Diagnostic Console in Access Connections. (Network>Diagnostics>IP Config) I have actually made little scripts similar to that; but some things can't be resolved like that.

[citimeta]

I would still go with MUD; since CS is quite complicated and has its own things to handle text; DirectInput for one, and the chances of that getting mixed up with a Windows keyboard input handler are quite small whereas a terminal program such as Telnet or PuebloUE might be more probable.

I found the Certificates through MMC by typing "mmc" in the Run box from the start menu and adding the snap-in certificate service; I will post back if I find anything that helps with Wireless Connections as I have a strong suspicion that these certs that are auto-loaded from another system are what play hide-n-go seek with Access Connections and other applications.


EDIT: I think I found what might cause certain connection problems. I will change it, then go on campus and connect to a variety of different points where I know what their characteristic performance was interfacing with my Thinkpad; just poking and seeing what will and what won't work. I actually have little to no idea what I am doing here.

Actually both domain and christopher are right... The problem occured when I used a telnet connection to the server, but it continued when the session is off or even after I reboot. And, the game may well be CS or similar stuff.

the ipconfig/release and renew trick doesn't work either because I've tried it for times...