RE: static electricity and wireless cards

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Thanks for all the info!

Re: cable modem connection.  The connection actually works fine (my wired
machines can connect to the internet with no problem).  The wireless PC
card just keeps scanning and scanning and scanning with no connection.

I managed to get a wire-full PC card to work on my laptop.  It's far less
convenient, but at least I can do stuff.  I'm going to try borrowing
another wireless PC card and see if it's the WAP or the PC card which is
failing.

Thanks again.

 > From: "Scott Stirling" <http://www.rcn.com/~scottstirling>
 > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:17:17 -0500
 >
 > Hi Robert,
 > 
 > So far, whenever my card has been zapped it works again after I reboot.
 > Every time this has happened to me I had the laptop on, and it immediately
 > froze Windows after the zap, requiring a hard reboot.
 > 
 > Another, separate issue I've had with my Linksys and cable modem is that I
 > get my cable Internet dropped sometimes -- once a month or so.  I don't know
 > why this happens, but I blame my cable company.  It happened to me last
 > Friday at noon, right in the middle of an AIM conversation with a co-worker.
 > So far the only way I've been able to fix it is to release/renew DHCP on the
 > Linksys hub, reset the cable and Linksys hub (there's a little reset button
 > on the back of the cable box you have to use a pen tip to push), and unplug
 > the cable box for a few hours.  And that's more of a religious ritual than a
 > rational process, since I'm pretty sure the only thing that does anything
 > for real is the unplugging and waiting for a few hours.  :->
 > 
 > But you should be able to test whether you wireless card is fried or if your
 > cable connection is down by testing to see if another non-wireless
 > connection works.
 > 
 > The other thing I've tried when my wireless card gets flaky, like sometimes
 > after a Windows Update, is reinstall the driver.
 > 
 > Best,
 > 
 > Scott Stirling