counting chickens

[fox]

so, the wireless went kerblooey again. actually it just sort of went "fzzt". i can connect to the network, but it tells me i have "limited or no connectivity" because the network didn't assign a network address to my computer.

no idea how to solve this. at the moment, am going to go to bed and hope it's fixed itself in the a.m.

Comments

[obsessed1.livejournal.com]

Are you running Windows Service Pack 2? This sounds like what happened to me on my laptop when I installed that "security update." SP2 seems to be overly fond of screwing up wireless networks - especially on laptops.

If you have your own antiviral software and your own firewall, then SP2 is entirely unnecessary. (I use Avast! antivirus, which also acts as a firewall for chat, email and websites)

To find out that's the problem, remove it with your software manager and reboot. Down with SP2!

Err... unless you've got a Mac. *blush*

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

yeah. i called the network people and spent a spectacularly useless hour on the phone with them, only to be told that i needed to call the manufacturer. which i did, and you should have heard the guy's voice when i told him i'd installed SP2. :-) upshot, i restored the system back to before the connection started getting wiggy (which i'm still not sure why that happened), which was also before SP2, and all is good now. i do have my own firewall, so SP2 can go whistle.

:-D