Re: SP2 RTM killed my wireless network
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Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:56:14 +0100
I had not disimilar problems but got round it by:
Disabling the SP2 firewall in Windows, then doing all the wireless and
router installs and then reactivating the Windows Firewall.
Alternatively - Forget the windows firewall and use a 3rd party one.
In gerneral though, I found trying to install wireless stuff with firewalls
activated is darned near impossible......
Just a thought.....
"Jim Meadows" <Jim Meadows@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7BBF5F63-C346-4B21-B8F1-BD6F2FD5117C@microsoft.com...
>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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