Does wireless turn itself off if no network in area?

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Trolle · #1 Post by **Trolle** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:24 am

Does the wireless turn itself off if it cannot detect a network in the area?

I upgraded to the Atheros card for improved performance and to hopefully get rid of the annoying auto-shutdown of the old card. The Atheros card has worked flawlessly, however now I notice it shuts itself off but there are no wireless networks where I am.

#2 Post by **tomh009** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:52 am

How did you determine that it shut itself off? I have not seen this behaviour ...

lev · #3 Post by **lev** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:08 am

Trolle wrote:Does the wireless turn itself off if it cannot detect a network in the area?

I upgraded to the Atheros card for improved performance and to hopefully get rid of the annoying auto-shutdown of the old card. The Atheros card has worked flawlessly, however now I notice it shuts itself off but there are no wireless networks where I am.

Access Connections will switch off a wireless card if you have a "Best available network" profile, and are connected to a wired network. I don't think this is what you were talking about, though.

Lev

atlacatl · #4 Post by **atlacatl** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:58 pm

I've seen this happening to my X60s.

The computer tries to connect and if it fails (for whatever reason) the network card goes off.

I don't think of this a problem, really. I look at it more like a feature, i.e., no connection, no power to the card. If I want to use it again, I just go to ThinkVantage Access manager and select "connect" to whatever Wi-Fi hotspot I want.

gunston · #5 Post by **gunston** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:33 pm

i think the old wireless drive might automatically turn off the wireless if no Wireless Access Point is found in the surrounding area.

Trolle · #6 Post by **Trolle** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:47 am

I know that the card is powered off since the LED is no longer illuminated and I have to manually power on the card from Access Connections.

Since this is happening in my office where I have a wired connection I assume this is what is happening. Thanks.

I was just curious since I had the problem earlier where the card powered itself off during use.

#7 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:39 pm

Check out the following link that I just saw in the T60 forum as a solution to the disconnect problem with the Intel 3945abg adapter. I am not sure if something similar would apply to the Atheros adapter or not.

http://blog.st-agnes.org/cs/blogs/the_c ... nt/34.ashx

Does wireless turn itself off if no network in area?

Does wireless turn itself off if no network in area?

Re: Does wireless turn itself off if no network in area?

I see this behaviour.

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