Why wirless lan stops on vista boot and re_starts?

I have the fz180e. every time I boot to vista my wireless is on and I get connected to the internet and then durring the booting process the wireless goes off and the it go back on and so I get disconnected and reconnected again. Is this normal?
It happens on clean install!

 

Is this after you load your desktop?

 

yes this happens once my desktop is loaded. I see on my task bar that I am connected to internet. But all of a sudden the wireless green light near the wireless manual switch goes off and I get disconnected and then it comes back and again I get reconnected to internet!

For me this is become a pain and now I turn off wireless manually and once windows is loaded I turn on wireless and there I get connected with no problem.

 

That's quite disturbing. Perhaps something to do with power settings.

 

This has something to do with the wireless switching utility as this happens in my FZ too. First the bluetooth light lits up (although I disabled it in the utility) and then the wlan light comes up. The network gets connected at start up, then the red x sign, then yellow exclamation sign and finally the globe sign.

 

I can confirm this. Just launching Sony Wireless Switcher Tool disconnects (maybe resets WLAN driver...) even though the configured switching has already been done before. Not a problem for me, though, I only notice about 2 seconds offline timespan. Anyway I use the hardware wireless switch, this avoids some bluetooth info popping up which I normally don't need.

 

is there a way to remove Wireless Switcher Tool from startup?

 

No you cannot do that. Only you can remove that utility. But you won't be able to use the front switch after that.

 

Sure. I don't know anything about the FZ.
On my AR (Vista) the startup is done via Task Scheduler. Within this tool there's a Sony subfolder containing task WSSU, pointing to C:\Program Files\Sony\Wireless Switch Setting Utility\Switcher.exe. Just disable the task, you can always reenable it. Also you can run the EXE by yourself - create shortcut etc. I think the main reason for having it launched by Task Scheduler is that this avoids the User Account Control (UAC) prompt - task property Run with highest privileges.
Older VAIOs with Windows XP usually used 'normal' startup shortcuts.

 

well thanks for the precious info PWR
this is exactly what i needed to know. So first I desabled WSSU and and put Switcher.exe in startup! well as the reset and disconnection happens at the moment that Switcher.exe is executed things got worse! because in startup apparently the execution happens later! so not a fix. But when I totally removed this program from execution, (removed from startup and scheduler)
And bingo no more problem Vista boots into desktop connected and ready to surf and to my great surprise: The wireless switch is working! I can turn off and on!

 

Ok I am back again with new discovery!
after the change I have done when I put my laptop (in vista)
in sleep apparently it stays connected to internet!???
anyway when I get to desktop I am already connected!

 

rezpower,

Thanks a BUNCH

I disabled WSSU also. No more internet connection delay. The green LAN icon in bottom tray is gone. Everything else works fine. I don't use sleep, but an internet connection there would be no problem for me. I had this problem from day one. And posted it a few times on a couple of forums. Even more so when I used Norton and only 5 to 10 seconds with AVG Free that I use now. Norton was a minute. Also, my wife as a standard user now has no delay and no permission prompt for WSSU.

I always thought it was the security software holding the connection closed until it was safe to access the internet. And Norton did it a lot longer than AVG Free.


You solved my only frustration with my laptop.



Ken

 

So if I disable the switcher.exe, then how will I be able to turn the bluetooth ON/OFF? I use bluetooth rarely.

 

simply create a shortcut to switcher.exe on desktop, task bar, or where ever is easy for you and you can execute it personally when needed

 

For turning off the bluetooth, when I run the switcher.exe, it again resets the internet connection, which is very annoying. Is there any other to turn BT off? But anyway now the wireless internet connection is instant. It used to take ages before.

Thanks guys.

 

BTW, did you guys notice you can turn WLAN on/off via Windows Mobility Center (WINkey+X, also toggles window; or within Control Panel)? Cool thing is that this setting is being remembered – even after shutdown. Works fine in Vista64, so Sony's Switcher.exe is not needed for WLAN. It seems there is no Bluetooth switching in Mobility Center.
Another thing is, using built-in Vista64 bluetooth drivers, Switcher.exe won't switch Bluetooth anyway – at least for me. Disabling Bluetooth device in Device Manager seems to work but blue hardware LED remains on...

 

as I have the FZ180E (which dose not have bluetooth) and has only Wifi
I have found the perfect solution in eliminating switcher! Even my wireless
switch works! But I have no idea about the guys with bluetooth, and
problems they encounter.
I am so happy to have found this solution