the following was posted to the deerfield forum, but i was sent a note to redirect my questions here. in addition to the issue outlined below, i have noticed that, on another computer, windows XP crashes on a resume from standby if the VPN was connected when the computer was put to sleep....
neil.
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anyone have any ideas on this one?
i've been having problems on and off with certain devices on my IBM Thinkpad over the past few months, and finally traced the problem to wingate VPN:
the problem: i first noticed that my palm (which i hotsync via infrared) could not communicate with my computer after the computer had been put into a standby or hibernate mode, and resumed. looking at the device manager (with all hidden devices shown), it became evident that a number of network adapters developed error states during a standby or hibernate:
Bluetooth LAN Access Server Driver
Direct Parallel
Infrared Port
WAN Miniport (L2TP)
WAN Miniport (ATW) [or (ATR)? this disappeared after uninstallation of wingate VPN]
specifically, a little yellow exclamation mark appeared by them, and they were disabled by windows. disabling and re-enabling them manually appeared to correct the problem, but is tedious and time-consuming. none of the other network adapters seem to have problems.
method: after a great deal of troubleshooting with the IBM folks, i was shipped a clean hard drive, performed a system restore, and installed my old software, application, by application, until the problem reoccurred. the offending application was wingate VPN (remote client), confirmed by resolution of the problem with uninstallation of the software.
so, now what? i really need wingate VPN on the machine, but it screws up the infrared and interferes with other network devices as well.
thanks for your help.
neil v. patel