Thanks Max!

I assume when you speak of Status -- properties -- advance you are
speaking of Windows Firewall?

Weird thing when i go to control panel, windows firewall and click, I
get the following two messages, "Windows Firewall settings cannot be
displayed because the associated service is not running. Do you want
to startt he Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing(ICS)
service?" YES or NO

I choose YES and then receive the following message, "Windows cannot
start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing(ICS) service."

Hmm....any suggestions?

Thanks,
Chaser

On Dec 26, 10:45 am, "beemerwacker" <43.kit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ATM when I type inhttp://192.168.1.2(the address of the access
> point)
>
> > or try to ping it I am unable to connect in browser or ping it. Yet
> > the PC that is hard wired from that access point is still connected to
> > the network and I can surf the net with it?
>
> > Well i appreciate any comments or suggestions!Hi Chaser. I had an almost identical problem this past weekend (I like
> to call it my Christmas "surprise"). It would work, then not, then
> work. I'd set everything and boom on the next reset even the SSID was
> gone.
>
> What I did wound up being pretty involved but I have two thoughts:
>
> It could be your access point (since you can't ping it) has DHCP set up
> and your laptop has a static ip set out of it's range. I thought I had
> that problem because of a constant "acquiring address" state even
> though I knew damn well the access point expected a static IP which the
> laptop had.
>
> But....
>
> It turned out to be XP SP2 and it's stupid, stupid Pavlov like
> insistence on the built in firewall. For some reason it hates the
> MICROSOFT wireless card in the laptop. Even tho the firewall was off, I
> had to go into the advanced settings and turn everything on manually to
> get it to work correctly. Status > Properties > Advanced > Settings and
> ticked everything but for remote assistance. It may be a laptop kind of
> thing because I didn't have to do that at all when I installed SP2 on
> the XP box I use as a server. Now I'm all fat and happy - I'm posting
> this via the laptop in question even numerous restart cycles and a trip
> to my mother-in-laws house to fix her network.
>
> So I'd try something like that - couldn't find anything about it in the
> knowledge base at MS, btw.
>
> Max