E6410 Owner's Thread

Actually, it's probably Windows installing updates again...

 

If you are going to put the computer to sleep THAT long, hibernate it. Or enable hybrid sleep. At least you'll save battery life, and not screw up the remaining time estimate system of the battery, and need to recalibrate more often than needed.

 

Event Viewer's System Log should show what has woken the computer up and when.

John

 

You can also open the Command Prompt, and type: powercfg /lastwake, hit enter, and it will tell you the last device that woke up the computer.

In addition, you can type (must open Command Prompt as true Admin) cd C:\, hit Enter, and type powercfg /energy, and it will generate a full, nice report on any sleep related problems, at C:\ drive.

 

Petentially very useful, but I get a message (W7-64) about energy.dll could not be loaded.

John

 

I'd recommend buying the 5540 if you're in Europe, especially in light of Johns problems with the 5530.

If in doubt you should just email Dell and ask which card is recommended, then buy the card on eBay from a reputable seller.

 

How can I get Dell Connection Manager to manage my wireless/wired connections? We're getting a lot of users with duplicate IP's, becuase they are on wireless and wired connections.

 

DCP Connection Manager does not manage IP addresses. This is done by a DHCP server on your LAN, often built into routers. Wired and wireless clients are issued a unique IP address from a range of IP addresses administered by the DHCP server.

Duplicate IP addresses suggests multiple DHCP servers issuing IP addresses from the same range. If so, perhaps reconfigure each DHCP server to use its own address range. Or reconsider your network.

GK

 

That isn't the issue.

I want software to turn off the wireless, when they have LAN hooked up, and when LAN is not hooked up, turn on wireless.

The way the old quickset works.

 

I see... an auto wifi switch. Windows should make this a default property on a wireless connection... Disable when wired. Or Dell should make this an option in the BIOS... Disable WLAN if LAN. The user could use the switch, or set the WLAN to not connect automatically.

GK