Wireless Problems After Installing SP2

My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
with this problem. Their wirless network was working
great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
problem comes back....HELP.....

"Brian (BK's Computing)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....

More info please. SP2 solved most of the problems I was having. Have you
enabled Wireless Zero Configuration? What security are you using (WEP or
WPA). Frequently Authentication needs to be disabled to get notebook PCs to
connect to access points if WEP is used.

Brian, there is some monumental c**k up with SP2 and wireless. Once SP2
goes on, it seems very easy for clients not to be able to get their
DHCP addresses from the server. Don't know why just yet, but I have had
several customers woth this problem. So far, my (temporary) fix has
been to set a static IP address for the client. So far MS seems to be
keeping stum about it!!!

Ron

Brian (BK's Computing) wrote:

> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....

Read this page it might help http://users.tpg.com.au/adsl5muj/index.htm
"Brian (BK's Computing)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:10e401c4dc07$9b5ef570$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....

I had the same problem using WEP on two notebooks. I temporally
disabled WEP to allow connection. Several days later I decided to
give it another try. I enabled WEP again on the laptop and router and
everything worked fine. I didn't have to re-enter any keys are they
were already entered from by first attempt. I don't have a clue why
it worked the second time around - I definitely had entered the proper
key as I didn't reenter anything. Any thoughts?

--
Jim

"Brian (BK's Computing)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:10e401c4dc07$9b5ef570$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....

"Jim Besse" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:OpNq$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I had the same problem using WEP on two notebooks. I temporally disabled
>WEP to allow connection. Several days later I decided to give it another
>try. I enabled WEP again on the laptop and router and everything worked
>fine. I didn't have to re-enter any keys are they were already entered
>from by first attempt. I don't have a clue why it worked the second time
>around - I definitely had entered the proper key as I didn't reenter
>anything. Any thoughts?
>
>
Maybe you rebooted the router in the meantime? Also, I recently had a
problem wherein I had to first connect to the router using WEP before I
could connect using WPA security. So maybe merely connecting with no
security allowed you to connect with WEP. Possibly the MAC address of your
network card needs to be recognized first by the router before the security
will work? Routers do strange things.

Brian, Any help you can pass along would be greatly appreciated. I am not
particularly computer saavy and have been stumped with getting my wireless
connection back after installing SP2. We have a laptop at home connected to
our cable modem and wireless router and my daughter has a new laptop that she
loves until now since her only access is via the wireless router. The
wireless network is detected, according to the icon on the task bar, but
won't connect. When attempting to view available networks then windows says
no networks found in range. I can't disable the windows firewall in the
Security Center as it says service was not started or was stopped. I could
go on but won't ...thanks

"Brian (BK's Computing)" wrote:

> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....
>

Brian \(BK's Computing\) wrote:
> *My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP..... *
I'm having this problem too. The problem seems to be renewing the I
address from the DHCP server. I have 2 laptops which I upgraded(sic) t
SP2, 1 with a Cisco card and the other with built in Centrino wireless
The Cisco one has no problem with SP2, but the other one keeps no
being able to connect. I find that if I reboot the machine, it wil
manage to find the network and get the IP. However, if I go to standb
a few times, eventually the problem will surface again. The proble
also manifests itself when I switch from a wired network (office) to m
home wireless one. Then it will not be able to renew the IP address.
find that in this case however, if I plug in an ethernet cable which i
also connected to my router and let the wired connection get an IP, mos
of the time the wireless connection will manage to get an IP in anothe
minute or so. This brings me to the conclusion that this problem is
Windows problem, and I think Microsoft should fix this with hig
priority, cause it's a big pain. So much for their User Experienc
program.

Gavi


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Right-click on the adapter and choose repair. Also ensure the DHCP service
is running.

Carey

"Brian (BK's Computing)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:10e401c4dc07$9b5ef570$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My name is Brian and I am going nuts, we have customers
> with this problem. Their wirless network was working
> great until they installed SP2. Now the network says
> limited connection or no connection. If anyone has a fix
> for this other than uninstalling SP2 please email me. I
> have tired a few things and I can get it working for a
> short period of time but when they reboot a few times the
> problem comes back....HELP.....

Carey Holzman wrote:
> *Right-click on the adapter and choose repair. Also ensure the DHC
> service
> is running.
>
> Carey
>
> *

Repair doesn't work in this case. DHCP is running cause if I reboot i
is OK, or the other computer running on the network works fine


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