I know exactly what you mean. I ended up turning the whole lot off. Didn't pay good money for a firewall to have to put up with Microsofts's half-baked effort.

If you don't want to install SP2 (understandable) try to stop XP from managing the wireless network and use the tools that came with the card wireless card. They should have been installed when you loaded the drivers.

let me know if have any success.

Ian

Did you say you had sorted out what signal your network was working on?

I live in a 3-flat block and it seems that everyone's had wi-fi for Xmas....out of the 6 networks that I can see in Macstumbler, 5 are on channel 11 (the other is mine, that wasn't working until I changed it.)

They must all be having horrendouse problems. :)