sp2 vs wireless connections

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Good Morning,

We've started to deploy SP2 within our company and so far everything is
hunky-dory (well, everything was hunky-dory once we shut off the annoying
firewall). We are still having problems with wireless conncetions. What
seems to happen is that the laptops are unable to get an IP address and come
up with a "Limited or No Connectivity" tag over the wireless icon. Any of
our laptops that do NOT have SP2 are fine and connect to the wireless
network. I've tried disabling every aspect of the firewall and checking all
the settings under the wireless NIC settings, but I don't see anything that
might block the NIC from getting an IP address.

Any suggestions? Or if you need more info let me know.

Thanks for your time.

Gary
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