I while back y’all helped me understand that the reason why my WiFi didn’t come back when I woke up my laptop from hibernating is that there’s some magic ‘reset’ that doesn’t get sent when un-hibernating or something like that. What always works, though, is to do the “network troubleshooter”… it messes around and then says it reset the driver and it is now working [and it is!!]. So now I’ve been shutting the laptop down, and, indeed, the WiFi driver comes up without a problem BUT.. the d*** [slow] laptop takes *minutes* to boot [in fact, that’s why I started putting it to bed by hibernating instead of shutting down]
Is there a way to do directly what the troubleshooter does? I’m a fan of doing as little clickingt-around as necessary and so I’ve tried figuring out what the troubleshooted *does* when it resets the driver. I tried poking around and the only resetting i could do turned out to require a restart [which, of course, defeated the purpose of having hibernated in the first place]. Is there a direct way to do the reset?