i have a realtek 8187b wlan card in my toshiba satellite a215-s7437, running
vista premium 64-bit.

every now and then (not consistent), the connection drops unexpectedly, and
when i try to reconnect to the wireless network, it says there are no
wireless connections available, when i know there are at least 5-6 in range.
the only solution i have found so far is to disable the card in device
manager and reenable it.

i did some poking around and created a custom event log for wlan events
within last 12 hours. this turned up an event common to every instance where
the connection had dropped:

Wireless security stopped.

Network Adapter: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11b/g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network
Adapter
Interface GUID: {a91bf110-4f90-4b5b-b61f-b8dcd39273e4}
Local MAC Address: 00:16:44:15:20:69
Network SSID: iheartboobies
BSS Type: Infrastructure
Peer MAC Address: 00:1F:33:25:0C:3A
Security Hint: The operation succeeds.


following this initial information event, wlan autoconfig will disconnect
(info), reconnect (info), and attempt wireless network association (info),
where it will subsequently fail (err).

before posting this, i read
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1
which seems to describe the same problem, although without much
investigation into the cause.

is anyone else having the same problems?

if there are no good drivers, is it possible to write a script to perform
device disable/enable so i don't have to click through to the device manager
myself?

Hi,

I am having the same problem since the first day I received my new toshiba
satellite L300 series, with RTL8187b .

Any solutions, pls?

This is making my experience with this TOshiba a nightmare!

Thanks,

Mustafa

"Erich Oelschlegel" wrote:

i have a realtek 8187b wlan card in my toshiba satellite a215-s7437, running
vista premium 64-bit.

every now and then (not consistent), the connection drops unexpectedly, and
when i try to reconnect to the wireless network, it says there are no
wireless connections available, when i know there are at least 5-6 in range.
the only solution i have found so far is to disable the card in device
manager and reenable it.

i did some poking around and created a custom event log for wlan events
within last 12 hours. this turned up an event common to every instance where
the connection had dropped:

Wireless security stopped.

Network Adapter: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11b/g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network
Adapter
Interface GUID: {a91bf110-4f90-4b5b-b61f-b8dcd39273e4}
Local MAC Address: 00:16:44:15:20:69
Network SSID: iheartboobies
BSS Type: Infrastructure
Peer MAC Address: 00:1F:33:25:0C:3A
Security Hint: The operation succeeds.


following this initial information event, wlan autoconfig will disconnect
(info), reconnect (info), and attempt wireless network association (info),
where it will subsequently fail (err).

before posting this, i read
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...=en-us&m=1&p=1
which seems to describe the same problem, although without much
investigation into the cause.

is anyone else having the same problems?

if there are no good drivers, is it possible to write a script to perform
device disable/enable so i don't have to click through to the device manager
myself?