Sam1990

I have this Linksys Wireless PCI Adapter Card that I bought a week ago. A few days ago when I tried connecting to an unsecure network and it worked fine, I was connected. Well I updated Windows Vista with a few updates yesterday and I tried connecting to the same unsecure network today, but it gives me this error:

"wireless association failed due to an unknown reason"

Now I did some Google searches and ended up finding the following article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

I tried doing what it said on there, but I'm stuck on the "In this registry path, click the (GUID) subkey that corresponds to the network adapter that is connected to the network." part of it. How do I find out the GUID subkey?

Also, if anyone has any other information on this problem please let me know, thanks.

noobdown

goto this location in the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID}

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reezin14

You could go to the Linksys website and see if they have a updated driver or patch for Vista.

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GH0

I would just take a look at each of them and guess. Because I have 4, but 5 of them appear in that registry key. Rule out some of the ones you know, by looking at the IP that is listed on the adapter.

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Sam1990

I stated in my post that's the part I'm stuck on.

I used the device manager to search for updates but it says it already has the latest update.

I have 4. The first one doesn't have anything in it except 'default.' I'm thinking I could rule 2 others out because they have "2wire.net" under 'DhcpDomain' and I believe that would be my router since it's a 2Wire router.

noobdown

if you care to explain a little i might be able to help you.
what is it that you dont understand?

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Sam1990

It tells me to find the "(GUID) subkey that corresponds to the network adapter that is connected to the network." Well I'm in that part of the registry and I see four things that look like:

{83hj8df-df3tcfg4-d3t4tfg345-fgsd335} - you get the point

Now, I don't know which one of those is the one for the network adapter. I think I found out which one, but I'm not 100% sure.

Man.. why can't computer components be a simply 'plug-and-work' without all this crap?

Sam1990

Well I'm not 100% sure, but I think a windows update caused this problem. The thing is, I don't know which update. So I wanted to ask, would it be smart to uninstall all updates and then see if I'm still having the problem?

GH0

You can reinstall all of them again, so I wouldn't see a problem in that.

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