Re: Vista SP1 disables WiFi adapter

On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:52:18 -0700, Dave Rudisill <denali@alaska.net>
wrote:

>I recently bought a Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E laptop.
>Vista was preinstalled.
>I downoaded and installed SP1 the other day, and
>the onboard WiFi adapter went south.

If you're really in Alaska, the only real way to go is south.

>The Wireless LAN indicator
>light would not come on, and the Vista "Network and Sharing
>Center" no longer included that adapter. The Device Manager said
>that the adapter was working normally.
>
>I restored the laptop from a backup I had done prior to
>installing SP1, and the onboard adapter is working again.
>
>Anybody else had this problem with SP1?

I have two customers with current Sony laptops. I installed Vista SP1
when it arrived and have seen no problems. However, I also went
through the trouble of downloading all applicable driver updates.
Start here:
<http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-home.pl?mdl=VGNNR220E&LOC=3>
Apparently there are some hardware conflicts that break things in
Vista with SP1. For example:
<http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-info.pl?info_id=352&mdl=VGNNR220E>
<http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?mdl=VGNNR220E&news_id=247>
However, the wireless device is not one of those listed. I don't
think this applies.

In the past, when I have such hardware issues, I almost immediately go
for the BIOS updates. I just fixed a Toshiba laptop that was
disabling the wireless card if I switched to an external monitor. The
BIOS update fixed it. However, I don't see any MB BIOS updates in the
list of Sony downloads, so that's not going to happen. I guess you
wait for Sony to figure it out.


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