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Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking?
From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa () pacbell net>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:44:14 -0800
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;904942And 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 () athensgroup com> 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: 913807An Outlook 2003 patch905756An Excel 2003 patch913161Outlook Spam definitions update912475A 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 them912945Is an ActiveX change904942Outlook (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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Current thread:
- Latest MS patches kill wireless networking? James Garrison (Mar 15)
- Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking? James Garrison (Mar 15)
- Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking? Matt Ostiguy (Mar 18)
- Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking? Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (Mar 20)
- Re: Latest MS patches kill wireless networking? Phil Frederick (Mar 18)