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Wireless Network Connection grayed out

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by raymondy

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I have an Acer TravelMate 630 notebook running Windows XP Pro. Its built-in wireless NIC works fine with my access point (D-Link DWL-900AP+) until I installed XP SP1. The Wireless Network Connection becomes unavailable (gray out) and I wasn?t ableto uninstall SP1 since I didn?t choose to archive old files during service pack installation. Please advise how to fix this problem. Thank you and best regards.

Raymond

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by techkid

Are you using WEP? Does XP still list your SSID but it's just grayed out? If so, your WEP key may have been wiped out and you'd have to enter that info again. If you don't remember it you'll have to connect to the WAP with a network cable and createa new WEP key.

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