Re: Network adapter disappears after SP1 or SP2 install

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From: Steve Winograd [MVP] (winograd_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/19/04


Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:37:10 -0600

In article <3b9d01c49dd8$fe640100$a601280a@phx.gbl>, "Slick Nick"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hello. I use an Intel AnyPoint Home Network USB Phoneline
>Adapter system to link my 4 Win XP Pro computers together
>for filesharing and for sharing my DSL internet
>connection. It works great AS LONG as I don't have Win XP
>SP1 or SP2 installed. After I installed SP1 a while back,
>Windows could not see the AnyPoint Network Adapter any
>longer. Trying to add it in the Add Hardware program
>didn't work. As soon as I uninstalled SP1, all was OK. I
>recently installed SP2 and had exactly the same problem.
>Windows refused to recognize the Anypoint adapter.
>Uninstalling SP2 fixed the problem. Has anyone else had
>the same problem? If so, do you know what can be done to
>either fix the problem or work around it? Any help would
>be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

Check the Intel web site to see if they support AnyPoint on SP1 and
SP2. If they do, see if there are new drivers to download and
install.

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