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(I didn't see this question in another thread, but sorry if I missed one.)

I have a T60 which works perfectly upon resume from standby: always connects flawlessly to our wireless network.

My wife's T61 does not. More than half the time, it will show that it's connected in the system tray, but the first time she tries to request something over the network, the request fails and the system tray icon shows the yellow warning triangle.

Any idea what could be causing this?

EDIT: I have her machine set up identically to mine, with Access Connections disabled and Windows managing wireless connections. (I hope nobody will recommend I use Access Connections, one of the buggiest pieces of software ever created.)

jvarszegi wrote:EDIT: I have her machine set up identically to mine, with Access Connections disabled and Windows managing wireless connections. (I hope nobody will recommend I use Access Connections, one of the buggiest pieces of software ever created.)

Guess I can't be any help then . . . I've used AC (w/ Intel 2200 b/g, IBM a/b/g I, and most recently IBM a/b/g/n) for four years (yellow triangle free) and love it!

Paul Unger wrote:

jvarszegi wrote:EDIT: I have her machine set up identically to mine, with Access Connections disabled and Windows managing wireless connections. (I hope nobody will recommend I use Access Connections, one of the buggiest pieces of software ever created.)

Guess I can't be any help then . . . I've used AC (w/ Intel 2200 b/g, IBM a/b/g I, and most recently IBM a/b/g/n) for four years (yellow triangle free) and love it!

I guess you can't. I've never had a machine where AC worked properly. I'm not alone.

More info would be useful. OS, wifi card, latest drivers used?.

One thing I can tell you is I've always had problems letting windows "manage my network connections".

I had the thinkpad a/b/g (atheros) card on my t42 and I always used the Atheros Client Utility (by installing that, it disables the windows "manage" thingy). Also, when I had the Intel 2200 agb before that, I used intel's utility which was much better than the windows "manage" thingy.

The early version of Access Connections always worked beautifully for me ... until v4 came out, then everything went downhill from there, so I've never bothered using that anymore and switched to the wifi card chipset manufacturer software ... much better.

icantux wrote:More info would be useful. OS, wifi card, latest drivers used?.

One thing I can tell you is I've always had problems letting windows "manage my network connections".

I had the thinkpad a/b/g (atheros) card on my t42 and I always used the Atheros Client Utility (by installing that, it disables the windows "manage" thingy). Also, when I had the Intel 2200 agb before that, I used intel's utility which was much better than the windows "manage" thingy.

The early version of Access Connections always worked beautifully for me ... until v4 came out, then everything went downhill from there, so I've never bothered using that anymore and switched to the wifi card chipset manufacturer software ... much better.

Windows XP and Intel Pro 3945ABG. I will try updating the drivers, which were new as of four months ago. I will also try using the Intel utility.

The Intel utility worked! Thanks a lot.

Sweet, glad it helped.