Re: Problem with WiFi card

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:42:33 -0500
>From: Charles Gambrell <gambrellcbgmail.com>  
>Subject: [Web4lib] Problem with WiFi card  
>To: web4libwebjunction.org
>
>We have 27 computers with Linksys PCI Wifi card. 
Whenever we select 
>"Shut Down" the computer shuts down and
immediately restarts.
>
>Anyone seen behavior such as this?  If so, have you
corrected the behavior?
>
>Thanks for any help offered.
>
>

I'd guess my first question would be, how do you know it's
the wireless card?  The second being, do you have any more
details  about your computers?

I'll assume the following:

1) You had computers previously, someone added all the
cards.  They stopped working.
2) You have Windows computers that are somewhat recent. 
Most libraries tend to run old versions, say 2000 or some
even 98.  I'm going to go on a limb here though and assume
that you're running one of the NT-based Windows OSes (2000
or newer) .

There's no way I can guess the card.

Searching Google for computer restarts after shutdown lead
to the following Microsoft page: http://suppor
t.microsoft.com/kb/320299.
Do that to maybe get an error message or at least stop the
cycle of restarting and shutdown.

Going to the Linksys website and searching "computer
restarts" brings up this thread: http://forums.linksys.com/linksys/board/message?boar
d.id=Wireless_Adapters&message.id=2621&query.id=9827
6#M2621.
The solution looks a little suspicious and like a short-term
fix. Maybe it'll give you some clues to start.

It also looks like Linksys there's a live support and chat
as well as forums.

Also, have you tried doing the usual and downloading the
latest driver/firmware for the cards?  


When asking questions like this some details about the
actual computers and the part can also prove useful.   



Jon Gorman
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