On May 4, 7:42 pm, Dave <davidjchurch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You might ask your IT group if the modifications they rolled down the
> network to your computer actually disabled access to all wireless
> networks except those which match their own parameters. This might be
> one of their ways of keeping tighter control on (a) what the machine
> is used for and (b) what is allowed to intentionally or
> unintentionally find its way onto the machine.


Sounds like a good lead. Perhaps it's some restriction your IT setup
(via update) in the Group Policy ? One can appreciate that there
would be reasons for restrictions.

Doesn't sound like a typical driver/hardware problem. Not across two
different wireless adapters. Have you tried installing another (not
the netgear) adapter - a USB one, say?

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Jeff L, on another current thread, mentions approaching problems by
asking the question in reverse, so the question here might be:

How do you set up an xp machine so that it could only connect to one
wireless network and that additional wireless network adapters could
not be installed ? And prevent the user from changing that setting?


Very clear, well informed problem description by the way.

Steve