Most recent IE update (KB832894) killed wireless network

[Mark Hartoog]

After I applied Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6
Service Pack 1 (KB832894) and rebooted, the wireless networking would not
work.
The advanced control panel would not show any networks under the "Available
networks".
list.

I rebooted several times, but this did not fix the problem. I uninstalled
the Service pack,
and the wireless network worked fine again.

The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 1410-S173 laptop with a built in Toshiba
Mini PCI wireless
lan card. It came pre-installed with Windows XP Professional, and all
previous updates have
been applied.

Anyone have any idea what to do about this, other than not apply the update?

Mark
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Maurice N]

After I applied Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6
Service Pack 1 (KB832894) and rebooted, the wireless networking would
not work.
The advanced control panel would not show any networks under the
"Available networks".
list.

I rebooted several times, but this did not fix the problem. I
uninstalled the Service pack,
and the wireless network worked fine again.

The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 1410-S173 laptop with a built in
Toshiba Mini PCI wireless
lan card. It came pre-installed with Windows XP Professional, and all
previous updates have
been applied.

Anyone have any idea what to do about this, other than not apply the
update?

Mark
(e-mail address removed)

Hi Mark,
First, I do not have a wireless-network setup (as you do). Do you know if your XP has Service Pack 1, already?
(Go to Start button; select RUN; next type in WINVER .....and see whether the text displayed shows "Service Pack 1". )

I have applied fix KB832894 on 2 different pc's today. So far, no problems. But, as I said, I have no wireless-network.
The office pc is on wired network. The home pc has no network (beyond the broadband cable-box ----with cables).

Q: Did you make sure to reply YES ....when prompted to reboot (after the update finished) ?

 

[Mark Hartoog]

First, I do not have a wireless-network setup (as you do). Do you know if
your XP has

Service Pack 1, already?

Yes, Service Pack 1 was installed imediately after I got the computer (and
re-applied after the OS was
reinstalled following the last harddisk failure). I have applied all the
previous critical updates.

Q: Did you make sure to reply YES ....when prompted to reboot (after the

update finished) ?

Yes. I rebooted several times. As far as I could tell, the wireless network
was still working after
I applied the patch, but before I rebooted. It was after the reboot that the
wireless networking
stopped working.

Mark
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Maurice N]

Yes, Service Pack 1 was installed imediately after I got the computer
(and re-applied after the OS was
reinstalled following the last harddisk failure). I have applied all
the previous critical updates.


Yes. I rebooted several times. As far as I could tell, the wireless
network was still working after
I applied the patch, but before I rebooted. It was after the reboot
that the wireless networking
stopped working.

Mark
(e-mail address removed)

Hi Mark,
I would highly urge you to make a new post in the Windows Update section, so that your situation gets wider and more-focused attention (at least the side effects of this update .

Windows Update problems should be posted into newsgroup ** microsoft.public.windowsupdate **
This link is for your Outlook Express
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate

 

[Mark Hartoog]

I tried this same update on a second laptop with WinXP Pro and a wireless
network connection. The wireless network worked fine after the reboot on
that laptop. It was a Dell Insperion 5100.

I decided to try the update again on my Toshiba laptop. I manually ran
Windows Update and downloaded and re-installed the update. This time the
wireless networking worked fine after the reboot.

I have no idea what happened the first time. Random installition glitch?
Courrupt download?

 

[Maurice N]

I tried this same update on a second laptop with WinXP Pro and a
wireless network connection. The wireless network worked fine after
the reboot on that laptop. It was a Dell Insperion 5100.

I decided to try the update again on my Toshiba laptop. I manually ran
Windows Update and downloaded and re-installed the update. This time
the wireless networking worked fine after the reboot.

I have no idea what happened the first time. Random installition
glitch? Courrupt download?

Mark,
Good to hear that it did work, at last. And on 2 separate laptops !
The key "may" be that Windows Update had to be selected by the user, rather than relying on "auto" updates.

The whole thing is still baffling since the update at issue involved a handful of IE dll's & exe.

Thank *you* for posting back with your details.