XPost: alt.comp.hardware   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   I've been having trouble with with the wifi receiver in my fairly old   
   Acer laptop**, but, showing good foresight, years before I had any   
   trouble, I bought a USB Wireless LAN card***   
      
   The LAN card is made in China by a company I've never heard of but its   
   entry in Device Manage says Realtek.  Is it really Realtek?  I see that   
   name a lot but now I"m not sure it's for real.   
      
      
   **For a couple years, the wireless would stop working after a couple   
   weeks, so I'd connect a cable, then a couple weeks later, that would   
   stop working so I'd disconnect it and use wifi.  And on in on.   
     But in recent months, I used only the cable. Getting ready for a trip   
   to see my brother, I unplugged it and the wifi wouldn't connect.  I ran   
   the troubleshooter and it said it couldn't find the problem, but it   
   would Reset and restart windows and that might help, and restarting is a   
   nuisance but each time it did all of that, I worked.  Five or 6 times   
   until I had sleep or hibernate. Then I had to start over with the   
   troubleshooter.  Any idea of how to fix this?.   
      
   ***which may or may not be what's currently connecting versus the   
   built-in lan card.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)