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wireless card automatically disabling
shortly after i installed SP 1 for vista business my wireless card started to
disable itself and stop all traffic. the only way i could get my network back was to reboot the laptop. i have looked in the network connections folder and saw the card was listed as disabled, after trying to enable it it still said it was disabled even tho the enabling... window poped up. i have tried to reinstall drivers, upgrade drivers, release and renew (only to be told it is disabled), run the diagnositcs and checked my router. my router was not causing the problems as others in my house were still connected. any help with this problem is greatly appreciated. i am running vista business and a Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG. |
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wireless card automatically disabling
well its good to know that im not the only one with this problem then. this
must be something with Vista itselfand maybe one of the hotfixes that has been applied. "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote: I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network
connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder.
"Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
"iceykitsune" wrote in message
... nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder. Then it is caused by some error in various protocol layers, intermediate drivers etc. above the adapter. If reboot helps to revive the conection, maybe disable & enable the adapter *in device manager* will help as well? --PA "Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
well disabling in device manager when the card dies will be something i can
recheck but when the card died i did try to uninstal the driver but it wouldnt finish uninstalling. it also takes a long time to access any properties about the card when it dies but i will try that and report back when my card dies again. "Pavel A." wrote: "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder. Then it is caused by some error in various protocol layers, intermediate drivers etc. above the adapter. If reboot helps to revive the conection, maybe disable & enable the adapter *in device manager* will help as well? --PA "Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
ok so yea that didnt take long, it died again and this time after i tried to
disable it, the system didnt show (the icon in systray) that there was limited connectivity but it showed no connection, connect to a network said it didnt find any but the device manager froze while disabling. i didnt end task but opened a new one and it didnt show the device disabled but opening the properties showed that there was no drivers loaded yet it knew what it was and had all the normal tabs in the device properties. "iceykitsune" wrote: well disabling in device manager when the card dies will be something i can recheck but when the card died i did try to uninstal the driver but it wouldnt finish uninstalling. it also takes a long time to access any properties about the card when it dies but i will try that and report back when my card dies again. "Pavel A." wrote: "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder. Then it is caused by some error in various protocol layers, intermediate drivers etc. above the adapter. If reboot helps to revive the conection, maybe disable & enable the adapter *in device manager* will help as well? --PA "Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
Looks like a driver problem...
--PA "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... ok so yea that didnt take long, it died again and this time after i tried to disable it, the system didnt show (the icon in systray) that there was limited connectivity but it showed no connection, connect to a network said it didnt find any but the device manager froze while disabling. i didnt end task but opened a new one and it didnt show the device disabled but opening the properties showed that there was no drivers loaded yet it knew what it was and had all the normal tabs in the device properties. "iceykitsune" wrote: well disabling in device manager when the card dies will be something i can recheck but when the card died i did try to uninstal the driver but it wouldnt finish uninstalling. it also takes a long time to access any properties about the card when it dies but i will try that and report back when my card dies again. "Pavel A." wrote: "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder. Then it is caused by some error in various protocol layers, intermediate drivers etc. above the adapter. If reboot helps to revive the conection, maybe disable & enable the adapter *in device manager* will help as well? --PA "Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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wireless card automatically disabling
Sorry for the delay in responding, i am having problems posting on this site
that aren’t related to the wireless problem. Seems like microsoft doesn't want me posting or something. To note i did only upgrade the driver that i had installed before windows vista SP1 after the problems started. I don’t remember the last time i actually had upgraded the driver before this time. I did reinstall the driver last night and i tried it when the card said disabled. the installer couldn’t complete after 10 to 15 mins (no errors just kept trying to install files but not really doing anything) so i killed the process, rebooted into safe mode and fully removed the driver and let windows use its own driver. I do have a firewall running (zone alarm) and have done a virus scan but that did not find anything. Looking on the forums recently it looks like others are starting to have the same problems so this sounds more like a vista update gone wrong. "Pavel A." wrote: Looks like a driver problem... --PA "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... ok so yea that didnt take long, it died again and this time after i tried to disable it, the system didnt show (the icon in systray) that there was limited connectivity but it showed no connection, connect to a network said it didnt find any but the device manager froze while disabling. i didnt end task but opened a new one and it didnt show the device disabled but opening the properties showed that there was no drivers loaded yet it knew what it was and had all the normal tabs in the device properties. "iceykitsune" wrote: well disabling in device manager when the card dies will be something i can recheck but when the card died i did try to uninstal the driver but it wouldnt finish uninstalling. it also takes a long time to access any properties about the card when it dies but i will try that and report back when my card dies again. "Pavel A." wrote: "iceykitsune" wrote in message ... nope it only shows disabled in the network connections folder. Then it is caused by some error in various protocol layers, intermediate drivers etc. above the adapter. If reboot helps to revive the conection, maybe disable & enable the adapter *in device manager* will help as well? --PA "Pavel A." wrote: Is the netcard disabled also in the device manager, or only in Network connections? --PA "shouldofstayedwithXP" wrote in message ... I have the same network card and same issue. Mine started a few days ago, but I have not installed SP1. -- shouldofstayedwithXP |
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