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Bruce owens
December 9th 03, 11:07 AM
The same thing happened to me also. I "rolled back" the
driver for the device and it functions fine. The same
issue will happen if you happen to try and install the
driver from the Linksys website as well.
>-----Original Message-----
>Problem - after downloading automatic updates for
Windows
>XP Home Edition on two home computers at the same time,
my
>USB wireless connections on both computers stopped
>working. The devices are fine and working with good
>signal strength and the Home Portal computer is working
>fine (ethernet connection) but Windows cannot see
>available networks and will not let me connect or look
for
>networks. It is almost like something is disabled in
>windows. Everything worked great before the Windows
>Update was run and the unit rebootted on both machines
amd
>everything stopped. The DSL provider (2WIRE) and the
USB
>Wireless manufactures say it is a Windows problem. I
have
>reinstalled windows and the devices but there is no
>change. I cannot seem to find any setting in windows
that
>has made any change to fix this problem. Is there some
>sequence I need to type into the "Run" command to reset
>this? Any help?
>.
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