Service Pack 3 (XP) Access Connections can no longer associate w. wireless AP

T61p with Atheros/Lenovo ABG card. Installed XP SP3. Access Connections can no longer associate with my access point. I uninstalled Access Connections and enabled Windows Configuration. Same problem. Reinstalled Access Connections, same problem. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Which version of the Lenovo drivers are you using for your laptop?
I have a sneaky feeling that SP3 installed a "newer version" wifi driver and didn't quite tell you. In fact, during one of my updates at MS (for XP-SP2) the Atheros wifi drivers got on a list of "drivers to be updated". I unchecked the selection before the MS update "installed a newer version of the driver". This could potentially be the issue that's preventing the wifi card from communicating with a wifi manager properly. If that's the case, the best bet would be to try "disabling" the Wireless LAN in Device Manager completely, uninstall all wifi-related drivers and reboot.
Let's troubleshoot a bit further. I would suggest this - it's a bit of a procedure, but you'll find out what's going on...
There are two other possibilities for you to try:
1) Use Atheros Client Utility - keep Lenovo wifi drivers (this is less intrusive):
- Forget about AC or Zero Wireless, and install the Atheros Wifi Manager instead - it's called "Atheros Client Utility". Often the case can be resolved by using a "native" wifi manager for a "native" card (Atheros - Atheros). Access Connections is a great tool, but if you do make full use of all the features, then it's a bit of an overkill for the regular user.
- uninstall AC, disable Zero Wireless.
- Install Atheros Client Utility
- you can get the Atheros Client Utility from here or here (don't install the drivers when prompted, just the Client Utility)
- see if that works.
2) Use stock Atheros drivers with the MS Zero Wireless instead of Lenovo wifi drivers
- only issue here is that the Fn-F5 feature will not enable/disable your wifi card. (Lenovo drivers are tweaked for precisely this purpose). Point is, however, that you want to troubleshoot where the problem lies, so this may be worthwhile.
- Uninstall the Lenovo Wifi drivers as well as the AC program (you can retain your profiles as an option during uninstall process of AC),
- then install a stock Atheros-based wifi driver (if you need a link I'll post it here), then try to see if Windows wifi manager (Zero wireless) will "see" any AP's. If it does, then it means something's up with either AC or Lenovo wifi drivers, or both. If it still doesn't see it, then something inclued in SP3 could be to blame and more thorough (re)search would be required.
Otherwise, you may also want to take a peek at MSDN forums to see if others are experiencing Wifi issues due to SP3.

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p.s. under tools there should be diagnostics to where you can check to see if you enabled the error logging, if yo uhave that might provide further assistance.
p.p.s. i've looked up on a few other topics and it prob makes a difference with xp instead of vista because when selecting which tool to configure your wirless connection can cause an issue. but i mainly see this with older versions of access connecctions. so i guess i good question is if you were able to use windows to view and connect while you were using access connections?
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After upgrading to Exchange Server 2013 service pack 1, we are unable to connect via Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013. Outlook Web Access is working fine though. We have followed all the instructions, and have applied Outlook upgrades, but the issue remain the
same. Outlook was working fine before the upgrade.
Have we missed out something. I would highly appreciate if someone can help out? I'm not sure if this is the known issue as I can't seem to find anything on the internet.
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Hi,
According to your description, your Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 come across the connectivity issue.
To narrow down the issue, I’d like to recommend the following troubleshooting:
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2. Check the Outlook Anywhere connectivity by using ExRCA:
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Additionally, MAPI over HTTP is only supported when you use Outlook 2013 sp1 and Exchange 2013 sp1 at the same time. Since the issue also happens on Outlook 2010 client, we can firstly try the above troubleshooting.
If you have any question , please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela Shi
TechNet Community Support

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HP2540 can no longer be contacted wirelessly. (SOLVED)

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Hi,
When Zeen's battery level goes below 5 %; it tends to Reset to Default where it looses all the connections and sync to the printer or router.
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