boot sequence: firewall + wireless

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Dave

hello,

i have a wireless usb adapter and run zone alarm firewall, both of which
load at startup. since i added zone-alarm into the mix, my boot process
ends with my wireless not being able to find the connection, and me having
to go thru the "repair" option for the wireless, which always re-establishes
my net connection.

i believe it's just a timing thing of Zone Alarm loading up too close to the
wireless drivers, sequence-wise.

can anyone suggest a possible fix for this?

thanks!

Dave
 
Dave said:
hello,

i have a wireless usb adapter and run zone alarm firewall, both of which
load at startup. since i added zone-alarm into the mix, my boot process
ends with my wireless not being able to find the connection, and me having
to go thru the "repair" option for the wireless, which always
re-establishes my net connection.

i believe it's just a timing thing of Zone Alarm loading up too close to
the wireless drivers, sequence-wise.

can anyone suggest a possible fix for this?
Click to expand...

Disable zone alarm , reboot, does it work now?
Update the adapter's drivers .. locate the latest drivers at the
manufacturer's website
enable zone alarm.
??
 
123Jim said:
Disable zone alarm , reboot, does it work now?
Update the adapter's drivers .. locate the latest drivers at the
manufacturer's website
enable zone alarm.
??
Click to expand...

thanks Jim, tried that. the adapter's (Linksys) drivers are a bad scene
generally. they add their own wireless mgmt console into the mix, which is
a sick user interface compared to XP's wireless manager. i somehow got XP's
manager back. if there was some way of "ordering" the order in which boot
devices load, or putting pauses in the timing of such, it might help

dave
 
Dave said:
thanks Jim, tried that. the adapter's (Linksys) drivers are a bad scene
generally. they add their own wireless mgmt console into the mix, which
is a sick user interface compared to XP's wireless manager. i somehow got
XP's manager back. if there was some way of "ordering" the order in which
boot devices load, or putting pauses in the timing of such, it might help
Click to expand...

I was using this: http://www.start-q.com/ to delay the start of some
programs on boot, in order to speed up my boot time.
However some programs could not be postponed, and some months after
installing Start-Q my antivirus flagged it as malware .. Probably a false
positive, but I removed it at the time, and have not tested it since.

Did your connection start normally when you disabled zonealarm?
 
Dave said:
hello,

i have a wireless usb adapter and run zone alarm firewall, both of
which load at startup. since i added zone-alarm into the mix, my boot
process ends with my wireless not being able to find the connection,
and me having to go thru the "repair" option for the wireless, which
always re-establishes my net connection.

i believe it's just a timing thing of Zone Alarm loading up too close
to the wireless drivers, sequence-wise.

can anyone suggest a possible fix for this?
Click to expand...

Try putting the IP address for the wireless router in ZoneAlarm's
trusted zone. Don't ask me where those settings are, I don't use
ZoneAlarm. You should be asking this in a ZoneAlarm forum, not here!
http://forums.zonealarm.com/

Here's a similar issue to yours:
http://forums.zonealarm.com/showthread.php?t=58971
 
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