November 17 update instantly disabled wireless access

My husband is too angry to write so please forgive me if this question does
not supply enough technical details, but any help will be appreciated. My
husband uses a wireless network at home to connect his laptop to the
internet, our access is cable, the wireless router, etc. is Netgear, he's
running Windows XP on his laptop, my computer (Windows 2000) is connected
directly to the cable connection, he connects with a PCMIA card. This set-up
has worked flawlessly for about two years. Immediately after the November 17
updates automatically installed, his laptop can no longer access the wireless
network. It still appears in the network list, but crossed out. Another
unsecured wireless network we've never seen before (must be one of our
neighbor's?) now shows up on the list and he can connect to the internet
through that but, obviously, he doesn't want to do that. The modem, router,
my cable connection, the PCMIA card, etc. are all working fine (and at this
point we've rebooted many, many times), the link is strong, we tried changing
the wireless channel as another poster suggested, and we tried many other
things but nothing works. Something in the update has caused Windows to
disable our wireless or block it or not want to recognize it or somehow or
other wreck it. All the security "threats" out there haven't impacted us as
much as one Windows update. We work partially from home and this is a
critical, time-wasting, money-wasting, incredibly frustrating event and it
was done to us automatically, completely out of our control. (Sorry, venting,
but we're at our wits end here). Can anyone help? Thank you so much. And
again, if I've described anything incorrectly or left anything out, please
pardon me, I know I'm dealing with technical experts here. Thanks again.

Hi Layneev,

Have you simply try running Windows System Restore to go back to before
the Windows Update?

Another suggestion, would be to simply reconfigure or reinstall the
PCMIA Card from scratch. Which Wireless Network Manager program are you / he
using on the Laptop?

Also, while the problem may be the Updates, it could just be a
coincidence. Try resetting the NetGear Router to Factory Specs then
reconfigure it, to make it secure. Don't stop broadcasting the SSID or using
the Network Lock until his Laptop is reconnected to the Router.


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"Layneev" <> wrote in message
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> My husband is too angry to write so please forgive me if this question
> does
> not supply enough technical details, but any help will be appreciated. My
> husband uses a wireless network at home to connect his laptop to the
> internet, our access is cable, the wireless router, etc. is Netgear, he's
> running Windows XP on his laptop, my computer (Windows 2000) is connected
> directly to the cable connection, he connects with a PCMIA card. This
> set-up
> has worked flawlessly for about two years. Immediately after the November
> 17
> updates automatically installed, his laptop can no longer access the
> wireless
> network. It still appears in the network list, but crossed out. Another
> unsecured wireless network we've never seen before (must be one of our
> neighbor's?) now shows up on the list and he can connect to the internet
> through that but, obviously, he doesn't want to do that. The modem,
> router,
> my cable connection, the PCMIA card, etc. are all working fine (and at
> this
> point we've rebooted many, many times), the link is strong, we tried
> changing
> the wireless channel as another poster suggested, and we tried many other
> things but nothing works. Something in the update has caused Windows to
> disable our wireless or block it or not want to recognize it or somehow or
> other wreck it. All the security "threats" out there haven't impacted us
> as
> much as one Windows update. We work partially from home and this is a
> critical, time-wasting, money-wasting, incredibly frustrating event and it
> was done to us automatically, completely out of our control. (Sorry,
> venting,
> but we're at our wits end here). Can anyone help? Thank you so much. And
> again, if I've described anything incorrectly or left anything out, please
> pardon me, I know I'm dealing with technical experts here. Thanks again.