SP2 RTM killed my wireless network

Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I assume it was
RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days). And I have spent
the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my wireless connection without
having to lose my SP2 updates. The adapter was reading the signal, but it
never worked. I did all of the following several times in several stages
using both a Belkin and a Linksys adapter:

(1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
(2) Turning off the firewall
(3) Resetting the router
(4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
(5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
(6) Having them being detected automatically
(7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter and
router's tech support folks

At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto detect, it
never found the correct IP addresses and said a network address could not be
found. If I manually set them, it would show it was "connected" but then I
couldn't get on the internet still -- it would crash after not being able to
find a proxy server.

I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need my life
and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring tenants)!!!!!! But I'm very
frustrated after going through all of that. I'm wondering after reading
these posts, though, my ex has had this computer until recently, and I'm
guessing she never ran the automatic updates. Could I have only downloaded
an older, faultier version??? I really don't want to lose any more precious
time figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.

"PA Bear" wrote:

What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162 should
be flawless.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

WinXP SP2 Release Notes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835935

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Thomas Johansen wrote:
The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I can no
longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router gives me a IP
address and I seem to be able to ping the router (unless I change some
network setting, then this dies as well). All the other machines on the
network are not having any issues. I have been running both RC1 and RC2 on
the machine without any problems, so there seems to be something that
broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter...
Someone please help me as this is totally unacceptable from a RTM build
(AFAIK it might be a linksys driver problem or something :s)

What ip address are you getting?
Have you scanned for and removed all the spyware and viruses?
Have you rebuilt the tcp/ip stack?(or ran the lspfix)

"Dreading" wrote in message

Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I
assume it was RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days).
And I have spent the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my
wireless connection without having to lose my SP2 updates. The
adapter was reading the signal, but it never worked. I did all of
the following several times in several stages using both a Belkin and
a Linksys adapter:

(1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
(2) Turning off the firewall
(3) Resetting the router
(4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
(5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
(6) Having them being detected automatically
(7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter
and router's tech support folks

At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto
detect, it never found the correct IP addresses and said a network
address could not be found. If I manually set them, it would show
it was "connected" but then I couldn't get on the internet still --
it would crash after not being able to find a proxy server.

I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need
my life and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring
tenants)!!!!!! But I'm very frustrated after going through all of
that. I'm wondering after reading these posts, though, my ex has had
this computer until recently, and I'm guessing she never ran the
automatic updates. Could I have only downloaded an older, faultier
version??? I really don't want to lose any more precious time
figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.

"PA Bear" wrote:

What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162
should be flawless.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

WinXP SP2 Release Notes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835935

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Thomas Johansen wrote:
The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I
can no longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router
gives me a IP address and I seem to be able to ping the router
(unless I change some network setting, then this dies as well). All
the other machines on the network are not having any issues. I have
been running both RC1 and RC2 on the machine without any problems,
so there seems to be something that broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is
a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter... Someone please help me as this
is totally unacceptable from a RTM build (AFAIK it might be a
linksys driver problem or something :s)

I just got off the phone with Linksys tech support after having the same
symptoms as you--i.e., the wireless adapter appeared to be working, but not
able to be assigned an IP address. The techy told me it is a problem with
SP2, that causes it to detect the wireless adapter as a local connection, not
wireless, if I translated that correctly. He offered two suggestions:
1. Contact Microsoft for a patch to correct this problem (which lead me to
this post after having found no such patch). or
2. Uninstall SP2, which seems to me to be a stupid solution.
Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to fix it???

"Dreading" wrote:

Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I assume it was
RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days). And I have spent
the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my wireless connection without
having to lose my SP2 updates. The adapter was reading the signal, but it
never worked. I did all of the following several times in several stages
using both a Belkin and a Linksys adapter:

(1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
(2) Turning off the firewall
(3) Resetting the router
(4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
(5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
(6) Having them being detected automatically
(7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter and
router's tech support folks

At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto detect, it
never found the correct IP addresses and said a network address could not be
found. If I manually set them, it would show it was "connected" but then I
couldn't get on the internet still -- it would crash after not being able to
find a proxy server.

I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need my life
and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring tenants)!!!!!! But I'm very
frustrated after going through all of that. I'm wondering after reading
these posts, though, my ex has had this computer until recently, and I'm
guessing she never ran the automatic updates. Could I have only downloaded
an older, faultier version??? I really don't want to lose any more precious
time figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.

"PA Bear" wrote:

What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162 should
be flawless.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

WinXP SP2 Release Notes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835935

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Thomas Johansen wrote:
The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I can no
longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router gives me a IP
address and I seem to be able to ping the router (unless I change some
network setting, then this dies as well). All the other machines on the
network are not having any issues. I have been running both RC1 and RC2 on
the machine without any problems, so there seems to be something that
broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter...
Someone please help me as this is totally unacceptable from a RTM build
(AFAIK it might be a linksys driver problem or something :s)

I had not disimilar problems but got round it by:

Disabling the SP2 firewall in Windows, then doing all the wireless and
router installs and then reactivating the Windows Firewall.

Alternatively - Forget the windows firewall and use a 3rd party one.

In gerneral though, I found trying to install wireless stuff with firewalls
activated is darned near impossible......

Just a thought.....



"Jim Meadows" Jim wrote in message
...
I just got off the phone with Linksys tech support after having the same
symptoms as you--i.e., the wireless adapter appeared to be working, but
not
able to be assigned an IP address. The techy told me it is a problem with
SP2, that causes it to detect the wireless adapter as a local connection,
not
wireless, if I translated that correctly. He offered two suggestions:
1. Contact Microsoft for a patch to correct this problem (which lead me
to
this post after having found no such patch). or
2. Uninstall SP2, which seems to me to be a stupid solution.
Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to fix it???

"Dreading" wrote:

Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I assume it
was
RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days). And I have
spent
the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my wireless connection
without
having to lose my SP2 updates. The adapter was reading the signal, but it
never worked. I did all of the following several times in several stages
using both a Belkin and a Linksys adapter:

(1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
(2) Turning off the firewall
(3) Resetting the router
(4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
(5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
(6) Having them being detected automatically
(7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter and
router's tech support folks

At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto detect,
it
never found the correct IP addresses and said a network address could not
be
found. If I manually set them, it would show it was "connected" but
then I
couldn't get on the internet still -- it would crash after not being able
to
find a proxy server.

I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need my
life
and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring tenants)!!!!!! But I'm
very
frustrated after going through all of that. I'm wondering after reading
these posts, though, my ex has had this computer until recently, and I'm
guessing she never ran the automatic updates. Could I have only
downloaded
an older, faultier version??? I really don't want to lose any more
precious
time figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.

"PA Bear" wrote:

What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162
should
be flawless.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

WinXP SP2 Release Notes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835935

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Thomas Johansen wrote:
The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I can
no
longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router gives me
a IP
address and I seem to be able to ping the router (unless I change
some
network setting, then this dies as well). All the other machines on
the
network are not having any issues. I have been running both RC1 and
RC2 on
the machine without any problems, so there seems to be something that
broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter...
Someone please help me as this is totally unacceptable from a RTM
build
(AFAIK it might be a linksys driver problem or something :s)

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:49:06 -0800, "Jim Meadows" Jim
wrote:

As far as I know, SP2 works just fine with wireless devices. I had no
problem whatsoever with my wireless connection when I installed SP2 to
both my notebook and desktop. You didn't mention whether or not
you're using encryption (you should be)? That's something you need to
check - make sure the code is the same. Uninstall any Linksys
software and let XP have control over the card. Make sure your Zero
Wireless Service is set to automatic and is working.

If your wireless router or wireless card by Linksys is having
difficulty, it seems to me that should be a problem that can be
resolved by Linksys. It's very easy for support to place the blame on
SP2, MS, or somewhere else.

I just got off the phone with Linksys tech support after having the same
symptoms as you--i.e., the wireless adapter appeared to be working, but not
able to be assigned an IP address. The techy told me it is a problem with
SP2, that causes it to detect the wireless adapter as a local connection, not
wireless, if I translated that correctly. He offered two suggestions:
1. Contact Microsoft for a patch to correct this problem (which lead me to
this post after having found no such patch). or
2. Uninstall SP2, which seems to me to be a stupid solution.
Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to fix it???

"Dreading" wrote:

Windows XP recently (11/1/04) ran my automatic update to SP2 (I assume it was
RTM, but I'm a little out of the tech loop these days). And I have spent
the last 3 days of my life trying to restore my wireless connection without
having to lose my SP2 updates. The adapter was reading the signal, but it
never worked. I did all of the following several times in several stages
using both a Belkin and a Linksys adapter:

(1) Uninstalling Upgrading drivers
(2) Turning off the firewall
(3) Resetting the router
(4) Switching between XP's WLAN managers and the adapter company's
(5) Manually entering the IP addresses, etc.
(6) Having them being detected automatically
(7) Doing whatever other gymnastics were recommended by the adapter and
router's tech support folks

At all times my adapter was picking up the signal, but with auto detect, it
never found the correct IP addresses and said a network address could not be
found. If I manually set them, it would show it was "connected" but then I
couldn't get on the internet still -- it would crash after not being able to
find a proxy server.

I finally gave up and gave SP2 the boot and I'm back online. I need my life
and my net back (I share my DSL with neighboring tenants)!!!!!! But I'm very
frustrated after going through all of that. I'm wondering after reading
these posts, though, my ex has had this computer until recently, and I'm
guessing she never ran the automatic updates. Could I have only downloaded
an older, faultier version??? I really don't want to lose any more precious
time figuring all this out, but the security updates would be nice.

"PA Bear" wrote:

What RC2 build were you running? Installing RTM upon #2161 and 2162 should
be flawless.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Are You Ready for WinXP SP2?
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

WinXP SP2 Release Notes
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;835935

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Thomas Johansen wrote:
The subject pretty much sums it up -- after installing SP2 RTM I can no
longer properly connect to m wifi net it seems... My router gives me a IP
address and I seem to be able to ping the router (unless I change some
network setting, then this dies as well). All the other machines on the
network are not having any issues. I have been running both RC1 and RC2 on
the machine without any problems, so there seems to be something that
broke in RTM... My wifi NIC is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter...
Someone please help me as this is totally unacceptable from a RTM build
(AFAIK it might be a linksys driver problem or something :s)

In ,
Jim Meadows Jim typed:

Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem
recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to
fix it???


I have confirmation that that is *not* true. My laptop runs SP2,
and has no problem with wireless communications. I don't know
what your problem is, but that isn't it.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

" In ,
Jim Meadows Jim typed:

Does anyone have any confirmation that SP2 has a problem recognizing
wireless adapters as being wireless, or know of any patch to fix it???


Ken Blake" wrote in message
...
I have confirmation that that is *not* true. My laptop runs SP2, and has
no problem with wireless communications. I don't know what your problem
is, but that isn't it.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


Jim:
I don't know if this will be helpful to you since you didn't indicate the
make and model of your wireless adapter, but I ran into a problem involving
my Netgear MA-111 USB wireless adapter after installing SP2. Up to that time
there was no problem, but after installing SP2 my wireless internet
connection was not recognized. By sheer accident I came across the fix from
someone on the net who had the same problem with a Netgear USB wireless
adapter - slightly different model. The fix was to disable Wireless Zero
Configuration in Services (Administrative Tools Services). Apparently the
default is Automatic - Started. No problem thereafter. As I say, this may of
be no help in your situation but give it a look.
Art