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 MalvagiaPremium
join:2003-10-04
Settima Foce | reply to Malvagia
Re: Wireless Zero Configuration Problems I tried the D-Link USB adapter last night and had the same problem, so I have now pretty much eliminated the adapter as the cause of the problem.
I reformatted and reinstalled XP Pro and then immediately installed the adapter. Everything was working fine. I then installed SP1, the critical updates, and the wireless rollup package. I installed them all one at a time, rebooting after each install. No problems. I disabled raw sockets, messenger service, UPnP service, and DCOM. I rebooted again and then it failed to connect.
I re-enabled the four services, and rebooted again, no problems. So, I figured I had narrowed it down to a problem with disabling one of those services, perhaps when done in conjunction with one of the updates I had installed. However, after disabling each service again, this time one at a time, I was able to reboot each time with no problems.
Then I tried shutting down the computer completely, and rebooting. Wireless failed to connect. Restarted and it worked.
After several iterations of this, I have determined that the nature of the problem seems to have changed from earlier. Now the problem only occurs if I completely shut down the computer. If I simply restart, it works fine, but if I shut down then the wireless connection fails to connect on startup. I have to manually restart the WZC service to get it going.
This is starting to get very maddening. I will experiment further tonight. | |
| Biggtraybal,
I had the same problems you're describing with the D-Link USB...The D-link utiilty doesn't work if Windows Zero Config is running...D-link has an article regarding this on their web-site...you have to disable the Windows Zero Config from starting on boot and running, this conflicts with the D-link utility. It wasn't until after I disabled the Zero Config that the D-link utilitiy was able to run and I haven't had any problems with them (one each on two pcs, WinXP , a DWL-120+ and a DWL-122) since.
Hope this helps.  | | |
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