Turns out my sister-in-law has the Office CDs, so I went ahead and backed up her data (which for once was tidily in \Documents and Settings\herid where it belongs!) and did a restore back to factory. That fixed the wireless issue.
Here's where it gets interesting: I then went through applying SP3 and the rest of the Windows service that was available. That of course involved multiple reboots. And all was well until the last batch of ~8 updates, after which the wireless problem was back. Same symptoms: "Acquiring IP address" for a while, then back to disconnected with no error message. Watching it in the router, I could see it associating but never getting an IP. I used System Restore to go back to the previous restore point and the wireless works again. So I applied the updates once more, in small groups (like, all the Media Player ones together) until the only one left was the Windows Live Essentials. Declining to fight with it any more (perhaps thus losing my membership in the Guild of Tinkerers), I marked that update as "Don't offer this to me again" and left it. But I know I've applied that update to other machines (which is how I've come to have NO interest in using it) with no problems. Anybody seen this? I Googled and found someone suggesting that it was widespread, but my other searching didn't support that. ...phsiii _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
