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    Wireless connection problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jgill886, Mar 4, 2009.

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    My new Sony VAIO SR 390 arrived yesterday. When I turn on the computer, restart, awake from sleep, etc, I have to manually disconnect and reconnect to my wireless network. If I don't, I have the little yellow triangle in the tray saying "unidentified network" and the internet doesn't work.

    I have turned the wireless switch on and off, disabled and enabled the connection, updated the driver, and changed the power settings in the device manager. All of this has not helped.

    Other than that, I have had no problems and I'm very happy with the computer. I haven't noticed the battery drain issue either.
     
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    What OS are you using?
     
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    If the little yellow trianlge has an exclamation point inside it...then it usually means some sort of hardware issue or failure.
     
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    I'm using Vista Business. The yellow triangle is on the network icon in the system tray, not by itself.
     
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    Are you connecting via VPN?
     
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    The yellow exclamation mark is shown when Windows does not find a DHCP service available to pull an IP address from. So it will self assign itself a 169.254.xxx.xxx address...and you'll get that icon on your connection status.

    Reasons? There are many.
    *No DHCP service running on the LAN
    *Faulty network cable
    *Faulty network card
    *Faulty port in the hub/switch/router
    *DHCP Server has handed out all leases it is authorized to hand out in its pool
    *Currupted TCP stack/winsock in the computer
     
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    I don't have this problem on other computers on the network. There is nothing wrong with the network cables. I don't think there is anything wrong with the card because it works perfectly and holds the connection after disconnecting and reconnecting.
     
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    Could this problem have anything to do with my McAfee security software?

    I really don't think I have faulty hardware because it connects fine when I connect manually. If it was a hardware problem, it seems like it would never connect.

    It's just annoying to have to manually disconnect and reconnect every time I turn the computer on and come out of sleep.
     
    jgill886, Mar 5, 2009
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