topic Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown in PCs & Accessories

FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:33:25 GMT

hy all!

I have a strange problem with my FE41S under windows VISTA. Sometime the wireless (Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) shutdown (the green led switch off) and i can't power on it. I must reboot my notebook if i want to use wireless again (and in this case the reboot is very long (in fact the power off is very long)). This problem seems appears more often when I transfer big file (for example when i download a music from itune or when I transfer file on my network via wireless).

I have upgrade with the latest intel driver for vista.
I have try to change power setting for the wireless adapter.

But nothing change!!

Can somebody help me?

Thanks

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

PaBa — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:39:17 GMT

Afraid I have encountered the same difficulty. It has happened a number of times recently, even after a clean install of Vista Ultimate (which certainly has speeded up my system following an upgrade from Windows XP to Vista Home Premium). Would be interested to hear from others on the wireless problem. My laptop is a VGN-C1Z

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

calikid — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:47:47 GMT

Yes, i have a VGN-C2Z, the wireless shuts down by itself. it happened several times this month !
Any special reason?

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

evpapad85 — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:31 GMT

Yes, to me too. 😞
I wish I new how I could solve the problem.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:33:00 GMT

hy all my new friend!!

So the good thing for me is that i'm not alone with this problem!!

the bad thing for us is that anybody have a solution!

No new idea?

Thanks

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

Blencogo — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:20:50 GMT

I haven't tried it but I understand disabling TCP/IPv6 can cure this problem. IPv6 is the new next generation IP included in Vista.

Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Centre -> Manage Network Connections and right-click on your wireless connection and choose Properties. Clear the check box next to the Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) component in the list under "This connection uses the following items". This method disables IPv6 on your WLAN interfaces and connections and forces Vista to use the older Internet Protocol TCP/IPv4.

Worth a try as you can always enable it again if it doesn't help.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

seafarer77 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:30:51 GMT

I have VAIO VGN-FE41Z and the same problem... I tried several Wi-Fi routers of different manufacturers, tried to call my ISP - but no positive results. Sometimes Wi-Fi shuts down on its own, without any reason...

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:10:37 GMT

I haven't tried it but I understand disabling TCP/IPv6 can cure this problem. IPv6 is the new next generation IP included in Vista.

Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Centre -> Manage Network Connections and right-click on your wireless connection and choose Properties.  Clear the check box next to the Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) component in the list under "This connection uses the following items". This method disables IPv6 on your WLAN interfaces and connections and forces Vista to use the older Internet Protocol TCP/IPv4.

Worth a try as you can always enable it again if it doesn't help.

Thanks

I will try with IP6 disable!!

I hope it will solve!! i will come back to said the result!!

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

evpapad85 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:35:33 GMT

I will try this trick too! I hope it will solve the problem.
Thanks man!

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:42:17 GMT

I have try with IP6 disable!!

same issue!!

another idea?

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

MattWilson — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:21:54 GMT

I have read that if you uninstall the Intel drivers for the network card and allow the microsoft's own drivers run it then you have no problems anymore but i have no idea whether it really works.

Anything is worth a try though!

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

evpapad85 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:14:23 GMT

I checked to see whether My Club Vaio was keeping my wireless adapter driver updated and found out that it was not! So I replaced my version (11.1.0.86, 25/2/2007) with the latest version (11.1.1.11, 30/4/2007), which I downloaded from here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2259&OSFullName=Windows+Vista*+Home+Premium%2C+32-bit+version〈=eng&strOSs=153&submit=Go%21

I hope that this will solve our problem.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:53:52 GMT

I checked to see whether My Club Vaio was keeping my wireless adapter driver updated and found out that it was not! So I replaced my version (11.1.0.86, 25/2/2007) with the latest version (11.1.1.11, 30/4/2007), which I downloaded from here:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2259&OSFullName=Windows+Vista*+Home+Premium%2C+32-bit+version〈=eng&strOSs=153&submit=Go%21

I hope that this will solve our problem.

I have already upgrade to these drivers!!!

same issue!!

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

calikid — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:12:04 GMT

I ' ll try both tricks, Blencogo's IP6 disable and evenpap's update and i will let you know. Thank you all for the problem solving ideas.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

evpapad85 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:28:37 GMT

Three days have passed, after the driver update, and my wireless adapter hasn't switched off. This doesn't prove anything, but it gives me hope.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

willcox — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:08:55 GMT

Hmmm.

I have the same problem with my AR21S, but i'm NOT running Vista. It has only started happening this month.

Any ideas?

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

evpapad85 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:34:13 GMT

How about downloading the latest wireless LAN driver for Windows XP?

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

willcox — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:37:48 GMT

How about downloading the latest wireless LAN driver for Windows XP?

I'm not sure how to do this. I've typed in "windows XP wireless LAN driver" on google and the microsft website and i have no idea which to download.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

willcox — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:07:23 GMT

is this perhaps a power management issue?

The only reason why i ask is that if i keep the connection busy (i.e. internet radio) i do not suffer the same problems being disconnected every few minutes.

Re: FE41S wireless strange shutdown

gerardpuducul — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:25:46 GMT

hy all!!
this is strange that only some of us has this problem!
maybe this will come from special configuration of our system!
So we can list our configuration (or maybe things that seems differents from standart configuration?) and maybe found where the problem come from?
In my computer FE41S, i have :
- windows vista premium
- kaspersky anti-virus 6.0.2.621
- 2 admin account
- driver for Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 v11.1.1.11
- my network is protected by WPA

and you?