Lenovo X201i Thinkpad. Must restart each time I change network connection

[jdang307]

This has happened to me across several laptops, running Vista or 7. My current laptop is Windows 7. I have a wireless connection at home, and a wired one in my office. Whenever I go back and forth, I have to restart my computer as I will have no internet access. On my older laptop I was able to access everything but the web (IM, VPN etc.) but no web.

Now on this machine I get nothing. On my XP laptop I had no problems putting my machine on sleep, taking it to work or home, and it going up no problem.

Any idea what the problem may be?

 

[JackMDS]

Set the metrics to prefer the wire.

http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html

If the above by itself does not work do this.

Uncheck the Network Card's Power Saving (I.e., do not let the card save power).
There might be some variations on where the Power saving setting is.
Here are few examples, YMMV, look around in your systems.

Example, http://www.ezlan.net/example/powersave.jpg

Example, http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/power_sav_wireless..jpg

Example, http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/power_save_win7.jpg

Example, http://www.ezlan.net/Win7/adv_power-sav.jpg

 

[jdang307]

Thanks for the suggestions. It still didn't work unfortunately. Maybe it's the wired connection something is up with it

 

[goobernoodles]

Need more information as to the state of either connection when they're not working.

Start > CMD > ipconfig /all

Then right-click, select Mark, and highlight everything. Hit enter to copy. Paste in here.

Also, are there any static network settings set for either connection?

 

[Lifted]

I have an X201 that I use between the office (LAN & WIFI) and home (WIFI) and several other work sites (WIFI) without ever restarting or shutting down.

2 or 3 months ago the ThinkVantage update grabbed some bad Intel drivers which caused an issue similar to what you're describing. I sometimes had to reboot multiple times to get on my home wifi connection. That was resolved after a couple of weeks (I'm sure many people were complaining on their forums).

Make sure to run ThinkVantage System Update and grab the latest drivers and software for the X201.

I'm also using the latest version of Access Connections. In Access Connections you can specifiy your preferred network (LAN, Wifi, WWAN, etc) and I've had no issue with it working since the other problems were addressed.