Limited or no connectivity with WXP SP2

[JknowWhat]

Pretty much what the title says. I am using a Belkin F5D7050 Wireless G USB adapter. No firewall installed with the exception of the SP2 firewall(which I have tried both enabled and disabled). I have also tried using the wireless utility provided with Belkin and the windows zero config with neither getting me past the limited or no connectivity. In addition, I have installed the Microsoft patch dealing with this issue and the regfix that goes with it (google the post title and you'll see). I have also tried Winsockfix, and even reinstalling the wireless adapter does not get me anywhere. I have done this on multiple computers including my desktop, a laptop, work computers at the IT dept. I work at, and a few other co-workers computers who have tried to make it work. Last thing I have tried is unchecking the notification in the wireless connection properties, unchecking the Microsoft TCP/IP version 6, and removing TCP/IP filtering. Both Belkin tech support and Microsoft SP2 tech support are clueless. I'm hoping someone here will be able to help me. Thanks in advance.

 

[Zelmo3]

I've only had persistent limited connectivity problems when the router went bad. Somehow the signal got so weak that you could only use it if you were in the same room as the router, within about 10 feet. I replaced the router and haven't had any more problems.

 

[JknowWhat]

Forgot to mention that I am trying to connect to campus wifi network. I have tried multiple locations around campus with wifi access so I am pretty sure its not a router problem. I don't know if it is the adapter or not. It can see the various channels and can attempt to connect to them but just ends up with the limited or no connectivity problem.

 

[JknowWhat]

Anyone?

 

[deepakvrao]

I had shitloads of problem after installing SP2. Tried NETBEUI as per recom at this forum. Nothing worked till I uninstalled SP2 from both laptop as well as desktop.

 

[obroinc]

I had the same problem - there is a small tool on this site that fixes it

http://weblogs.asp.net/jld/arc...2004/10/29/249491.aspx

Good luck

 

[ImNoFun]

I'm having the same issue. Wireless worked fine pre SP2. Have spent hours trying different fixes including the ones mentioned here. No luck. I have a desktop that is connecting wirelessly to my router using SP2, but not my notebook. I've turned off SP2 firewall and turned off mac addressing on my firewall. Nothing helps. I also reinstalled SP2. Didn't help. I'm ready to do a clean install of XP but I'll really be ticked if I do that and still have the same problem. I'm beginning to believe there is no help for us few users with this situation.

 

[phisrow]

Just to make matters even less cheerful... I've run into this problem from time to time connecting to my campus network. At first I thought it was just SP2 being foolish, so I booted my secondary linux partition. It turns out that Linux(Ubuntu w/ Debian packages enabled, if it makes any diffirence) was also unable to connect properly at that time. As far as I could tell, the DHCP server wasn't dealing with me properly(perhaps something MAC based?). This may or may not have the same cause as your problems; but I did want to note that there may be an issue on the network side as well.

 

[obroinc]

Has anyone tried the tool I posted yesterday - I had the same problem again on a different PC and the tool worked wonderfully.

 

[ImNoFun]

Yes. I tried that tool but still have the same problem.

 

[JknowWhat]

*sigh* I just bought a Netgear WG121 and I am still having the same problem. Belkin sent me another device but I keep getting a Code 10 (device cannot start) error with that one. Why is it so difficult to get wireless working on Windows with SP2?

 

[imported_bernie]

I was looking at another problem with "limited network connectivity" and saw this problem with the wireless setup.
I've had a few of these with SP2 upgrades on toshiba notebooks and it does prevent a connection although the signal is fine.You can't fix it using the netgear utility or the wireless (useless)icon in the control panel.It just won't pick up the SSID and the tab is grayed out....sounds familiar. Couldn't understand it and just could'nt work it out ...Well go to start click on programs and sp2 installs a link to wireless networks and asks list available networks and if its netgear join that and boom you're in. I hate Microsoft most of the time.

 

[wondersteve]

I have run into the same issue with users at my work, try this:

Disabling the Firewall
Go to Start, then Control Panel.
Go into Administrative Tools, the go into Services
Look for the service ?Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)?, double click on it.
Service should be Started, Stop it.
Change the startup type to Manual or Disabled, so long as it does not start up the next time the computer is restarted.
Click Apply and close the service entry.

 

[ImNoFun]

Just to update on my problem. I tried every solution I found here and elsewhere on the net. My IS guy at work said he could fix it. No problem. He couldn't. I finally did format c:\ and now everything works fine.

 

[Kelemvor]

If Format c: doesn't fix it, then you've got problems.