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Here's the question...

Is it just me, but why do several of my PCs seem to go into la-la land after waking up from hibernation?

One PC with a USB wifi adapter will wake up and it cannot see the wireless lan at all....until you power the machine down or unplug/replug the USB lan device.

Another PC with an onboard Realtec fast ethernet will decide to send, but not receive packets on wakeup. Power cycle the machine and all is well.

It seems that the more expensive network hardware (Cisco WiFi) tends not to do this, while the cheaper (SMC or D-Link WiFi) stuff does it bad.

Is hibernation particularly confusing to network hardware, are there some bios settings I missed, or am I just lucky??

(I've seen this happen on WinXP as wellas Suse or RedHat9 boxes)

It never has happened to me, But i never use hibernation mode.

krod wrote:It never has happened to me, But i never use hibernation mode.

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Get rid of thre usb wifi adapter and go get your self a pci wireless adapter. Id also recomend goining with a company like Belkin or linksys or even d-link.Stay away fro the stuff that gives you head aches.

Have you tried calling the manufacturer and asking them if they have a solution? I would think that since there the people who make it they may be able to help you more then the people here. I have no clue what the problem is but i'll ask one of my friend's he may know if he has a solution ill edit my post and add it in.

oddly enough, I had this same problem with a dlink pci wireless adapter. The problem solved itself for me when I switched from using the user-fiendly welcome screen to the 2k style logon screen. Can't say anything for Linux though

I have realtek and use lan, whne i got out of hibernation i'm am in the same situation, but i think tahat this is some kind of bug in windows XP

I'm having hte same issue with my wireless, I wonder why that is.

I am using a trendnet pci wireless adapter (stay far far away from those ) on one of my XP boxes, but instead of waiting to hibernate, the wireless cuts off randomly, and even though it says it's connected to the wlan, the net doesn't work until the box is restarted. It must be some kind of bug in XP, or, trendnet sucks more than I previously mentioned