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I haven't used Widnows XP in the last 3 years so I'm not too familiar with it anymore, but I will see if I can find something on it (or even install on a virtual machine to test a few things).

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UPDATE: I've put the card back into my laptop, connected to my network, then shut down and put the card back in his notebook. It connects immediately. I've disabled suspend to ram and suspend to disk, and now it seems to work across reboots. Is it safe to say that Windows is doing something stupid with the card when it suspends?

You've probably checked this already and/or I may have misread your post, but I've gotta ask anyway. Have you checked the Device Manager to make sure that it isn't powering down the WLAN Card and/or the slot that the aforementioned card is plugged into when it goes into Standby/Hibernate? I'm smelling a "poorly written driver" issue here, that might be possible to work around to an extent for Standby, if not Hibernate. :blink:

 

~D. V. "Notebook expansion cards... Madness..." Devnull

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Apparently it isn't just standby that has issues, as it's back to being flaky without having gone to standby.

In that case, if the card is still under warranty, I suggest RMA'ing it in order to get a working replacement. It sounds like part of the card's physical hardware wasn't properly built, and so it more-or-less shorts out (or something like that...) periodically, causing the flakiness. :(

 

~D. V. "I hope that card can be replaced..." Devnull

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I don't think so, as the card is solid under Linux.

<*DVD looks back at all their own replies to the thread, and facedesks even though they know they didn't have a full grasp on the situation before now...*> :wall:

 

So... How hard is it to contact the writer of the Windows-based Driver Files for that WLAN Card? :huh: ... Personally, I think it's time to pwn them for writing such a junk driver that Windows is blowing it. :twisted:

 

~D. V. "And now I fully get what's going on..." Devnull