I have an Alienware m5550 1.38 C2D with 1MB Ram. It's a nice laptop
and it gets everyone's attention. I like most aspects of this laptop
except for a few things and I'd like to know if anyone on this group
can offer a solution. I checked the Alienware user support forum and
it's useless. Sadly, this will probably the last Alienware I own
because of their dismal support. Anyway, all that aside ( that's
another story).

The wifi becomes disabled when I set the notebook to sleep mode. This
is normal as understand. But when I re-energize the notebook out of
sleep more, the wifi remains disabled. I have to completely reboot the
notebook to get the wifi to work again. Alienware tech support had me
update the notebook's BIOS and I did that through some utility that
they offer. It didn't seem to fix this issue, in fact, I'm not sure
that it resolved anything.

Any suggestions?

thanks.

-Alex
http://alienwarepictures.com/NightRiderA51m55S.htm

I am not positive but on my wife's laptop she hits the fn+f2 and it turns
the wifi back on.
You may check and see if your laptop has the same feature, it may use a
different key combo.
"nightrider.36" <alex.cordero******.com> wrote in message
news:1169738349.702877.55730@v45g2000cwv.googlegro ups.com...
>I have an Alienware m5550 1.38 C2D with 1MB Ram. It's a nice laptop
> and it gets everyone's attention. I like most aspects of this laptop
> except for a few things and I'd like to know if anyone on this group
> can offer a solution. I checked the Alienware user support forum and
> it's useless. Sadly, this will probably the last Alienware I own
> because of their dismal support. Anyway, all that aside ( that's
> another story).
>
> The wifi becomes disabled when I set the notebook to sleep mode. This
> is normal as understand. But when I re-energize the notebook out of
> sleep more, the wifi remains disabled. I have to completely reboot the
> notebook to get the wifi to work again. Alienware tech support had me
> update the notebook's BIOS and I did that through some utility that
> they offer. It didn't seem to fix this issue, in fact, I'm not sure
> that it resolved anything.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks.
>
> -Alex
> http://alienwarepictures.com/NightRiderA51m55S.htm
>