Reconnecting on wake from sleep

1. primula.vulgaris@yahoo.teet... - 1 June 2008

   Being a total newbie at these things, I'm rather proud of having got my Airportless mini (running Panther) set up with a Netgear USB wireless adapter and the Realtek driver. But the mini tends to drop the connection when it wakes from sleep. (I expect it dropped the connection when it *went* to sleep, but you know what I mean.) I can re-establish the connection by physically disconnecting the adapter and reconnecting it. But is there a way of doing this virtually, via the keyboard? I mean, of course there is, but could someone please tell me what it is? Thanks.

   primrose

2. Jim - 1 June 2008

   If your network Location is set to 'Automatic' then you may find it helps to create a named Location and to use that.

   Not sure why this works, but it used to.

   Jim

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3. primula.vulgaris@yahoo.teet... - 2 June 2008

   Doesn't work for me, unfortunately. Surely there must be a simple way -- after all, if the mini had an Airport card, physical connection and reconnection wouldn't be an option. Or doesn't the problem occur with an Airport card?

   primrose

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4. Peter Ceresole - 2 June 2008

   If you physically disconnect and reconnect a USB device, I believe it reloads the driver. So that could well be it.

   USB and networking don't seem to work very well together.

   Peter