Re: SP2 RTM killed my wireless network
From: Jim Meadows (Meadows_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:49:06 -0800
I just got off the phone with Linksys tech support after having the same
symptoms as you--i.e., the wireless adapter appeared to be working, but not
able to be assigned an IP address. The techy told me it is a problem with
SP2, that causes it to detect the wireless adapter as a local connection, not
wireless, if I translated that correctly. He offered two suggestions:
1. Contact Microsoft for a patch to correct this problem (which lead me to
this post after having found no such patch). or
2. Uninstall SP2, which seems to me to be a stupid solution.
Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to fix it???
"Dreading" wrote:
> Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I assume it was
> RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days). And I have spent
> the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my wireless connection without
> having to lose my SP2 updates. The adapter was reading the signal, but it
> never worked. I did all of the following several times in several stages
> using both a Belkin and a Linksys adapter:
>
> (1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
> (2) Turning off the firewall
> (3) Resetting the router
> (4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
> (5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
> (6) Having them being detected automatically
> (7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter and
> router's tech support folks
>
> At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto detect, it
> never found the correct IP addresses and said a network address could not be
> found. If I manually set them, it would show it was "connected" but then I
> couldn't get on the internet still -- it would crash after not being able to
> find a proxy server.
>
> I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need my life
> and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring tenants)!!!!!! But I'm very
> frustrated after going through all of that. I'm wondering after reading
> these posts, though, my ex has had this computer until recently, and I'm
> guessing she never ran the automatic updates. Could I have only downloaded
> an older, faultier version??? I really don't want to lose any more precious
> time figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
>
> > What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162 should
> > be flawless.
> > --
> > ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> > MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP
> >
> > Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
> > http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
> >
> > WinXP SP2 Release Notes
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835935
> >
> > AumHa Forums
> > http://forum.aumha.org
> >
> > Thomas Johansen wrote:
> > > The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I can no
> > > longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router gives me a IP
> > > address and I seem to be able to ping the router (unless I change some
> > > network setting, then this dies as well). All the other machines on the
> > > network are not having any issues. I have been running both RC1 and RC2 on
> > > the machine without any problems, so there seems to be something that
> > > broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter...
> > > Someone please help me as this is totally unacceptable from a RTM build
> > > (AFAIK it might be a linksys driver problem or something :s)
> >
> >
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