Hey there,
I have a home office network the consists of an RCA cable modem feeding
a Belkin Router that connects via ethernet to a desktop and via wireless
to a laptop with a Belkin 7010 wireless card. Both systems are running
XP Pro. The Belkin equipment and the laptop are just about two years
old, but this particular network has been running very smoothly for two
months since moved into this house.
Early this week the Windows update prompted me install a couple of
fixes, so I did, and shortly afterward I got my first ever XP Pro BSOD
claiming a driver problem with the wireless card driver (BCMWL5.SYS).
So I first I tried to uninstall the card, reinstall it, and update the
driver and all seemed fine for a few hours, until the card suddenly
stopped working and every time I tried to open the Belkin Card Config
app it told me there wasn't a valid driver.
So I did a system point restore to just prior to the Windows Update and
updated the card driver, and within a few hours it just stopped working.
The radio light still worked, and it said that found my wireless
network, but it couldn't connect to it.
I gave up at 2 a.m. after several attempts at updating the driver (none
of them actually changed the driver -- it still had a date of 2003),
trying a different card slot, and reinstalling the windows update. When
I got up the next morning there was another Blue Screen of Death waiting
for me with the same driver error.
So I've just taken the card out and I'm using the laptop with an
ethernet connection, and it works fine, so my guess is the card is shot
(it can pick up a signal but not connect to it?)
Coincidentally, a remote-controlled fan in the same room has suddenly
stopped working. Is there a wireless gremlin stalking me?
Any ideas?
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