Can no longer 'View Available Wireless Networks'

Hi,
I just had a failure and had to format hard drive. While building my
computer back up, I updated my drivers. I had always used the Wireless
Network Connection Wizard from Windows. I came to like it. Now, when I try
to 'View Available Wireless Networks', I get the message that 'Windows cannot
configure this wireless connect... and goes on to refer me to the WZC
article 871122...'. I find that I need to use the Broadcom wireless utility.
This utility looks like it might have a lot of information, but, I really
don't have time to learn something new since I liked the old. Have tried to
'rollback' the driver, and various other stuff. Any ideas on how to
uninstall this or get back control? Thanks.

bonipie wrote:

> Hi,
> I just had a failure and had to format hard drive. While building my
> computer back up, I updated my drivers. I had always used the
> Wireless
> Network Connection Wizard from Windows. I came to like it. Now, when
> I try to 'View Available Wireless Networks', I get the message that
> 'Windows cannot
> configure this wireless connect... and goes on to refer me to the WZC
> article 871122...'. I find that I need to use the Broadcom wireless
> utility.
> This utility looks like it might have a lot of information, but, I
> really
> don't have time to learn something new since I liked the old. Have
> tried to
> 'rollback' the driver, and various other stuff. Any ideas on how to
> uninstall this or get back control? Thanks.

Open the Broadcom utility and see if there is an option to disable it;
i.e., to allow Windows to handle the wireless connection. Most of these
third-party wireless managers have that option.

Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

bonipie wrote:

> Hi,
> I just had a failure and had to format hard drive. While building my
> computer back up, I updated my drivers. I had always used the Wireless
> Network Connection Wizard from Windows. I came to like it. Now, when I try
> to 'View Available Wireless Networks', I get the message that 'Windows cannot
> configure this wireless connect... and goes on to refer me to the WZC
> article 871122...'. I find that I need to use the Broadcom wireless utility.
> This utility looks like it might have a lot of information, but, I really
> don't have time to learn something new since I liked the old. Have tried to
> 'rollback' the driver, and various other stuff. Any ideas on how to
> uninstall this or get back control? Thanks.

You may or may not have an hp computer, but apparently yours -- like hp laptops
-- uses a Broadcom-based wireless unit. According to hp, "Once installed, the
Broadcom Wireless Utility takes control of Broadcom wireless devices and the user
must use the Broadcom Wireless Utility to
configure and manage Broadcom wireless devices." hp also says, however, that
most home and SOHO users don't need all the functionality of the Broadcom
Wireless Utility, and that if you want to use the normal WinXP configuration
tool, you must first uninstall the BWU and reboot. Try looking in Control Panel
Add/Remove Programs for anything with the name Broadcom.





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