Belkin wireless and XP Pro problem

[Marty]

My configuration:

Dell running XP home, hardwared to Belkin wireless router.
No problems with that one.

Compaq running XP Pro, wireless Belkin PCI card. No
problems with that one either.

HP running XP Pro, wireless Belkin PCI card. Until today
had wireless signal. As of 9:00 this morning I can't get
a signal. I have all XP maint. New install wizard from
Belkin. I can see my neighbors wireless signal.

Any suggestions?

thanks

 

[Himanshu Gohel]

My configuration:

Dell running XP home, hardwared to Belkin wireless router. No problems
with that one.

Compaq running XP Pro, wireless Belkin PCI card. No problems with that
one either.

HP running XP Pro, wireless Belkin PCI card. Until today had wireless
signal. As of 9:00 this morning I can't get a signal. I have all XP
maint. New install wizard from Belkin. I can see my neighbors wireless
signal.

Did you recently install a Windows XP patch that affects wireless
networking? There is one that changes the protection from WEP to WPA.
That wreaked havoc on my network and stupid Belkin (my card manufacturer)
said that the only thing I could do was reinstall Windows. Like a fool I
did that, but upon installing patches I found that it happened again.
This time I spent a couple of hours to track it down and found that
backing out of the wireless networking patch my network started working
again.

The patch is 826942

Now the reason why I had to back out this patch is because my card/router
don't support WPA. If you can upgrade your firmware to support WPA, then
you're probably better off doing that in the long run.

Good luck, and let us know what the resolution was.

Himanshu