Disabling IBM access connections, help

[eb23air]

Hello all,

I am having a lot of difficulty with my wireless internet (at school and at home) because of IBM's access connections. Everything was running smoothly, until my power went out the other day, and since then the access connections shows connection, while Windows shows no connection. I will be online, but every few minutes or so I get logged off.

Can someone tell me how to disable or turn off IBM access connections so that I can connect with the Windows wireless icon? Or is there something I should do to make things work better.

Thank you,
Edward

[jdhurst]

Disable Access Connections by uninstalling it. But beware that, properly set up and used with competent hardware, Access Connections does not cause problems. So you still may have problems when it has been uninstalled.

Separately, make sure drivers and firmware are up-to-date
... JD Hurst

[djhanson]

I had the same exact problem about a week ago, on my totally factory equiped R51.

I tried updating the drivers, etc. Didn't work. I eventually restored from the recovery disk to fix it.

[cruzlite]

You can 'disable' AC...

Go to;
Start/Run/type 'msconfig'/OK/'Startup' tab/uncheck 'QCTRAY' (AC)...
click 'apply'/OK/restart...

This will keep Access Connections from loading on bootup...

(You can then 're-enable' it later, if you so desire)

best lu7k

Edit; I 'disable' AC and put AC shortcut on my desktop...
I just configured it for use with linksys WRT54g v3.1
Works well...
Edit 2; The shortcut is only useful as a larger 'cursor target'...
(AC re-enables itself in startup when openned)

Acqusition is much faster using Access connections...

Edit 3; Your wireless driver and or AC might have been corrupted by powerloss...Solution; [Requires hard wire web connection] uninstall - renstall (I would use system/harware/device mgr [in control panel] to uninstall or roll back to an outdated driver...IBM NEW Software Installer for install...AC can be uninstalled with add-remove programs [in control panel]...and likewise reinstalled with New Software Installer...

[SteveDC]

I hope that one day I see the "Unified Guide" to managing:

1. Access Connections for wireless
2. Windows XP wireless management
3. Client software for other wireless cards I may use

For a long time on my T40, I have just hacked my way through the above three, trying one or the other until something works. Access Connections flaky, try Windows. Both of those flaky, try the client software. Or, try turning them off one a a time until something works. Etc., etc., etc.

[Michael1980]

I just removed the startup item from MSCONFIG and voila.