XP patch 826942 for wireless adapters

[Guest]

My Dlink 514 wireless router and Compaq Presario laptop with built in 802.11b wireless (Centrino) worked fine before I installed this patch. Now my wireless adapter can't even see my router. I uninstalled the patch, but this did not fix the problem. Anyone have any other ideas besides reloading windows?

 

[Himanshu Gohel]

My Dlink 514 wireless router and Compaq Presario laptop with built in
802.11b wireless (Centrino) worked fine before I installed this patch.
Now my wireless adapter can't even see my router. I uninstalled the
patch, but this did not fix the problem. Anyone have any other ideas
besides reloading windows?

If WAP was the issue, then uninstalling the patch should fix the problem.
Did you reboot?

There is another patch 815848 (or some such number, can't remember
off-hand) that is also wireless related that might cause interference.
Look through all your installed patches and see what they are about.

If you can't even see the router then you have some configuration problem.
Try going through that or just installing and reinstalling the
card/router software.

Windows re-install should not seem necessary in this case.

System restore to the day before you installed patches is an option...

 

[Pat]

I'd suggest you try a system restore to a time prior to patch installation.
Good luck.

My Dlink 514 wireless router and Compaq Presario laptop with built in

802.11b wireless (Centrino) worked fine before I installed this patch. Now
my wireless adapter can't even see my router. I uninstalled the patch, but
this did not fix the problem. Anyone have any other ideas besides reloading
windows?

 

[Shane]

This XP Patch also broke my wireless connection to my
modem router (Netgear DG834g). Wireless card in the PC
was Netgear WG311.

I could see the wireless network (which has 60 bit WEP
enabled), but XP would not connect to it. (But it did
connect about 5 mins earlier, before this patch)

Uninstalling the patch didnt work so good - kept getting
crashes when trying to look at network properties.

Unticking "Use Windows to configure my wireless settings"
fixed it. the Netgear software (which works!) then took
over

 

[Mike]

Having the same issue. Seems if you stop the Wireless
Zero Config service and use your cards software to
configure it clears up the problem. But why when you
apply this patch does it blow up the wireless
connections. I can see my routers SSID just fine but it
just wont connect. Looks like its another case of
Microsoft using a fix to break something else. But what
else is new?