Wireless and SP2

[John Foster]

I just installed SP2 on both our machines, a desktop with
xp pro and a lappy with xp home. wi-fi was fine before,
now it is telling me i am connected but i am not. not
fully anyhoo, the only thing i can do is connect to the
net on the lappy (desktop is a "server" for the net").
The only thing I can see which is out of place is that on
the status box for the wifi connection on the lappy,
where it says network, instead of saying home, it says
none.
As far as I can make out everything is setup perfectly.
although on the lappy the hardware configuration utility
has to be used for setting up the network, and not the
configuration box in the connection's properties (hope
that makes sense). cos all that's in that section on the
lappy is authentication and advanced (firewall and stuff)
whereas on the desktop i have the whole "use windows to
configure" and everything else.
HELP
I AM SO PEEVED I AM RANTING
cheers
John Foster

 

[Quaoar]

I just installed SP2 on both our machines, a desktop with
xp pro and a lappy with xp home. wi-fi was fine before,
now it is telling me i am connected but i am not. not
fully anyhoo, the only thing i can do is connect to the
net on the lappy (desktop is a "server" for the net").
The only thing I can see which is out of place is that on
the status box for the wifi connection on the lappy,
where it says network, instead of saying home, it says
none.
As far as I can make out everything is setup perfectly.
although on the lappy the hardware configuration utility
has to be used for setting up the network, and not the
configuration box in the connection's properties (hope
that makes sense). cos all that's in that section on the
lappy is authentication and advanced (firewall and stuff)
whereas on the desktop i have the whole "use windows to
configure" and everything else.
HELP
I AM SO PEEVED I AM RANTING
cheers
John Foster

Try this: open the tcp/ip properties of the connection, general tab,
advanced properties, options tab, tcp/ip filtering properties. Check
Enable filtering, change all Permit Only to Permit All.

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