Re: Netwrork frustrations with Dell laptops

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I recently had a new Dell Optiplex workstation at one of my client's and the
(Broadcom 440) NIC connection would go up and down throughout the day. I
finally turned off all the hibernation, standby, power saving stuff and it
hasn't disconnected once since. This was on a P2P network though. As I
said, YMMV :-)

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Jim Behning SBS MVP" <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I can't imagine power management hitting the nic as I can still surf
the internet. Outlook also still works. It just drops the connection
to the domain but not to Exchange, ISA or the internet.

I need to try the repair option or Winxpfix which I suspect is the
same thing.

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:17:43 -0400, "Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]"
<mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe also turn off the Power Management stuff like Hibernation, standby
and
"allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you tried running the "repair" option on the NIC properties menu?
I
found a post by Dave Nickerson that said he had a similar problem with a
laptop way back in 2002 (a Win2K laptop) and running the repair seems to
fix the problem. YMMV

OT- Strange Laptop/ Workstation Connection Issue
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000/browse_thread/thread/d3355b110d2a77b3/484c8dcf707a82b8?lnk=st&q=you+are+working+offline+lost+nic+connection&rnum=1&hl=en#484c8dcf707a82b8

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What model of laptop Jim?

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Jim Behning SBS MVP" <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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I have Dell laptops at two different locations. When I log in to the
domain the log in script runs which shows that the latop sees the
domain. I can \\servername and see all the server shares. After a few
minutes up to 15 minutes you will see the "You are working offline"
message. If I try \\servername I see nothing but the users folder.
Today I tried \\serverip and I could see shares but if I tried
\\servername no shares were visible. Outlook stays online. The
internet works. Both locations are SBS 2003. One with ISA 2004 and one
without.

Laptops get all nic info from server dhcp which looks correct.
Workstations do not seem to have issues.

I tried ipconfig/flushdns which made no difference.

I set NLA service to automatic which did not help.

I looked at updated drivers but of course Dell considers drivers dated
2005 as up to date. Yes the dreaded Broadcom 57xx for the wired nic.

I set the binding order so the Broadcom was at the top.

No network bridge running.

I disabled the wireless nic.

I stopped NLA, did ipconfig/flushdns, restarted and no diff.

If I disable the Broadcom and re-enable the \\servername works again.







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