Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking?
On 3/15/06, James Garrison <jhg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I installed the latest MS patches and after rebooting, my wireless
> network refused to connect. It still showed excellent signal strength
> but was unable to establish a connection. I tried using both the
> adapter's client (Intel PRO Set) and the standard Windows client,
> with identical results.
>
> Then I uninstalled the patches and this fixed the problem.
>
> The patches that were installed and then removed were:
>
> 913807
An Outlook 2003 patch
> 905756
An Excel 2003 patch
> 913161
Outlook Spam definitions update
> 912475
A quirky Australians are changing their time zones patch
Those 4 came out last night - all fairly trivial - if you had Office
closed, Windows did not enforce a reboot on installing them. I have
not seen any issue with them
> 912945
Is an ActiveX change
> 904942
Outlook (express?) patch.
Seems very weird that any of these patches would get anywhere close to
Windows' networking stack. I have over 15 machines patched without
incident.
I have a fully patched Dell Inspiron here that I am able to associate
with multiple access points.
Matt