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Ever since I switched the wireless network over here to WPA encryption, my notebook has difficulties reconnecting when it wakes up from standby. I receive the network ID as I should, but the software locks up while trying to obtain an address via DHCP.

I have to reboot my (SMC) router to be able to reconnect. Any ideas?

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

How does WPA work? Does it update it's encryption methods every so often?

I should be ashamed of myself.

This post was edited by Aynjell on Dec 28, 2004.

How does WPA work? Does it update it's encryption methods every so often?

The protocol allows to renogatiate keys on a regular basis, yes.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Would it, for some reason, renegotiate the key without the computer knowing? Perhaps standby doesnt "tell" this service it's going down? yeah, I'm only offering what seems to be an idea. I'm researching the subject now...

I should be ashamed of myself.

Would it, for some reason, renegotiate the key without the computer knowing?

No, the rekeying is disabled.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

The problem magically goes away when I tell my laptop to not unpower the card when it goes down. I have no idea why this is supposed to make any difference while Windows is suspended to disk (all power is off), but apparently it does.

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Glad you found a solution. I'm still under the impression that when the connection is lost via standby, a certain amount of communication is being forgotten...

But what is it?

I should be ashamed of myself.