A few weeks ago, I spent a little tax refund money on a corporate-surplus Lenovo Thinkpad T60.\u00a0 I love it so far – fast, clean, tons and tons of memory, and of course I’ve been using Thinkpads at one job or another for the past 12 years or so, so I don’t take any convincing about what good machines they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it’s got one interesting bug that’s got me stumped.<\/p>\n
The wireless adapter will run just fine – indeed, it gets a signal pretty much everywhere in the house, which is something I’ve never managed with laptops before this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But periodically, the Adapter will switch itself to “disabled”.\u00a0 The period varies – it can run just fine for a day or two, or it can flip in ten minutes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I usually wind up going to the Network Connections control panel and clicking to Enable the Wireless Network Connection (which will usually spawn an “Enabling” dialog, and then flash a quick “Enable failed” message.\u00a0 Then I reboot Windows (XP) and things work fine.<\/p>\n
Anyone know what the problem is, and what I can do to fix it?<\/p>\n
Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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