sp2 vs wireless connections

[Guest]

Good Morning,

We've started to deploy SP2 within our company and so far everything is
hunky-dory (well, everything was hunky-dory once we shut off the annoying
firewall). We are still having problems with wireless conncetions. What
seems to happen is that the laptops are unable to get an IP address and come
up with a "Limited or No Connectivity" tag over the wireless icon. Any of
our laptops that do NOT have SP2 are fine and connect to the wireless
network. I've tried disabling every aspect of the firewall and checking all
the settings under the wireless NIC settings, but I don't see anything that
might block the NIC from getting an IP address.

Any suggestions? Or if you need more info let me know.

Thanks for your time.

Gary

 

[pcbutts1]

Have you manually told it to connect by clicking the connect button on the
network settings page. If a encryption key is needed it will ask after you
try to connect. You only need to do this once, after a connection is made it
will remember it.

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[Lawrence A. Wong [1023766]]

I occasionally get that problem, but after running the repair wizard
(Right-mouse click on the taskbar connection icon > Repair) everything seems
to work fine.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I've tried that as well as clearing all the settings and restarting
from scratch (readding the SSID and encryption). When that didn't work, I
tried to disable and re-enable the NIC card with a no-go. And I tried to
Repair the connection. It just hates the idea of having an IP address, it
seems.

 

[pcbutts1]

Are there any 3rd party wireless software installed that could be
interfering?. I know both Dell and Compaq have built in wireless software
that have to be set correctly in order to use Windows Zero Configuration.

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[Quaoar]

Good Morning,

We've started to deploy SP2 within our company and so far everything
is hunky-dory (well, everything was hunky-dory once we shut off the
annoying firewall). We are still having problems with wireless
conncetions. What seems to happen is that the laptops are unable to
get an IP address and come up with a "Limited or No Connectivity" tag
over the wireless icon. Any of our laptops that do NOT have SP2 are
fine and connect to the wireless network. I've tried disabling every
aspect of the firewall and checking all the settings under the
wireless NIC settings, but I don't see anything that might block the
NIC from getting an IP address.

Any suggestions? Or if you need more info let me know.

Thanks for your time.

Gary

In the TCP/IP advanced properties, TCP/IP filtering, check a that
Filtering is not enabled. I've seen this become enabled when the
Windows Firewall is disabled.

In the Wireless settings, make sure that your network is the only
resident in Preferred Networks, that Automatically connect to
non-preferred networks is not checked, and that 801.11x authentication
is not checked unless you specifically have a need for it.

In the startup apps, disable startup for the vendor's wireless
management utility if using WZC; or WZC if using the vendor's utility.

Changing network configurations (i.e., ethernet to wireless) can lead to
problems with layered services. Google for winsockxpfix.exe which, when
run, will repair the connection.

Q