I need some help. Yesterday i received my Dell Mini (which is pretty cool on the crapper) and i had a hard time connecting it to my Netgear router using WPA. So i said screw it, i'll just change my settings to MAC address specific with no SSID broadcasting and a WEP key. Figured that'll be good enough until i can get a Linksys router when Jasmine moves in.

So i changed it to that and all was well. All the laptops connected to it and life was good. Well now it seems, whenever a laptop hibernates, get's turned off or basically loses connection to the router it seems, it does not reconnect. In order for me to connect to it again i have to unplug the router and plug it back in. I checked and i have the latest firmware for it. The laptops never had this problem when i used WEP before. I just recently upgraded to WPA and they had no problem with that as well.

At first i thought it was just my Mini, but my Thinkpad and Jas's HP both have a problem reconnecting after sleeping or hibernating.

Any ideas?

I might try removing the MAC specific list and run with that and see what happens.