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Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking?



http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;904942

And he also patched things in the "optional" section and not high priority.....as that patch is only offerred up in the "middle" section. Did you also download driver patches in that bundle? I only patch in the upper section. (Security and high priority)

That patch is only needed if you are running IE 7 anyway




Matt Ostiguy wrote:

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


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