Re: [OT] Wireless problems

Abo wrote:
The HD in Freddie's PC died the other day, so I stuck a spare in this
morning and reinstalled windows. It is up in his bedroom and connects
wirelessly to the router downstairs.

My XP disk is SP1, so I installed that and then the drivers for the
wifi card. No problem; connected to the internet, activated XP fine.
Updated to SP2 no problem.

I then updated to SP3. This seemed to go ok, but following the reboot,
the wifi card won't connect to the router. It just reports that it is
'firewalled', and won't show any available wifi networks.

Silly question, but have you disabled Windows Firewall?

This is normally set to on as part of an install of XP... well, Service Pack
2 at least from memory, and this could be causing the block.

If it isn't this, where is it telling you the device is firewalled... in the
Device Manager?

Finally, what make / model is the wireless card?

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JackH

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