My laptop's wireless connection has a habit of dying about once a day. If I leave it long enough, it will come back. Or, I can disable and re-enable the associated network connection, which will cause it to come back immediately. I don't know how to solve the greater problem of why the connection fails (and it may be just a fluke of losing sync or interference) but I'd like to speed up the disable/enable routine. Does anyone know how to disable/enable a network connection from the command line?

It's not IPCONFIG /release, and NET STOP "Network Connections" doesn't seem to be it either.

It could be that your Wireless card is being shut off by your system. I know in XP (Especially in laptops) it will shut down network adapters that aren't in use to save power. There should be a setting to stop it from doing that somewhere. Unfortunatly I can't find it on my laptop.

sorry

Joel

Originally posted by DRIVERJC
It could be that your Wireless card is being shut off by your system. I know in XP (Especially in laptops) it will shut down network adapters that aren't in use to save power. There should be a setting to stop it from doing that somewhere. Unfortunatly I can't find it on my laptop.

There's a "Power Save" mode, which is supposed to shut it off when there's no connection (keeps from burning battery power on searching for an access point). The connection is live and in use, though, so it's not that. I did find a command-line utility (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311272) that fits the bill and does a lot more useful stuff besides--and what do you know, it's a free download from Microsoft.