Wireless Card stop worling after 15min.

Hauan, David david.hauan at fairchild.af.mil
Fri Aug 20 07:21:45 PDT 2004



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Antal [mailto:lantal at tmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:31 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Wireless Card stop worling after 15min.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed on my Toshiba Satellite laptop 
> with built in Wireless card. Everything is working fine Thank 
> you for all the advice about the overheating problem. So what 
> happens is after I start my laptop I have internet connection 
> through my wireless card only for 15 minutes or soo.
> 
> Is there such a thing like wireless card time out??
> If yes than where should I look for it??
> 
> If I shutdown my laptop and restart it I can connect to the net again.
> 
> Thank for all the help in advance.
> 
> Laszlo

I noticed this on a ThinkPad running win2k.
The problem was the power save feature on the 
wi card.  When power save *feature* was disabled
all worked fine.  Just a thought.

dave


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