wireless network disappeared

[Daneph2]

Any idea why a wireless network would disappear off a PC. A friend says he was right in the middle of gaming (sofII) and lost connection. He noticed the network icon was mising from the task bar. He went into network setup and the only thing listed was the disabled hard wire LAN, the wireless is completely gone.

any idea what happened? should he just re-install from linksys CD?
This is on an XP PC.

[ecross]

Hello Daneph2,

1. Click Start, Run, type ncpa.cpl, and click Ok.
2. When the Network Connection window opens, look to see if the Wireless Network Connection Icon is there.

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like you lost this icon. If that is the case, then something happened to the wireless network card. If so, then please reinstall the wireless card. The Wireless Network Connection should be recreated and should appear in the Network Connections.

[104456]

In a similar vein what wireless hardware are they using and is it internal or USB?
Did they check Device manager and the event log for errors

[Daneph2]

its a USB device. unplugging this should not delete the network setup??? right?

it is not just the icon, the network is not there, I will re-install it for him, just curious as to how it may have happned, to prevent it again.