I have a Dell laptop with a wireless card in the PCMCIA slot, running Norton Internet Security. A few weeks ago when I logged on, both Windows and Norton started their automatic updates. Windows gave me a bogus message about my OS not being a valid install or something (it’s original from Dell), then my wireless card stopped communicating. Now, if I boot in Safe Mode with networking, the wireless works fine. If I boot normally, the card works fine for about 5 minutes (startup processes are still running) and I can observe traffic on the wireless connection monitor, then suddenly all the traffic counters go to zero, and communication stops, even though the status says I’m connected to the wireless network with a good connection. Is this weird or what?
