VPN, Wireless, and Bootcamp bug?

This morning I tried installing a Sonicwall VPN client on my Macbook under Bootcamp and running XP Pro. Pretty much immediately after I did this I lost my wireless connection (not even running the software or trying to connect to my work VPN yet).

I rebooted everything and got my connection back for a couple of minutes before losing it again. Windows could see my router, and showed that it had full signal strength, but wouldn't connect. After another reboot and some fiddling I noticed that I was connected to the router, but Windows was showing that there was no wireless connection. This has been going on all day, sometimes it will say I have no connection and I really don't, other times I have a connection when I'm showing as disconnected in the tray.

Thinking that there was a good chance that this was related to the VPN client I uninstalled, but this has not fixed the problem. The wireless connection works fine when I boot into OS X.

So is there some setting or registry change that the VPN install might have changed that wouldn't have been changed back by uninstalling? Any other ideas on how to troubleshoot?

Thanks,
Dylan

 

Did you try googling the problem, it might be a common problem with sonicwall vpn?

 

I did search, but couldn't find a mention of this bug anywhere. I'll probably have to call Sonicwall, but their tech help hasn't been the greatest when I have had to call for other things. I had a consultant for work try to install the adapter, and couldn't get it to work on a freshly reformatted drive with XP Pro. Spent 2 hours on the phone with Sonicwall and their answer was basically "We don't know, and can't help you."

 

If I recall correctly, it is a common problem with sonicwall router. I'm pretty sure I've seen people talk about it in a discussion board, just can't remember which one.

At work, we have a sonicwall router, and I couldn't connect it to my PDA phone, and very recently my co-worker couldn't connect his new vista loaded HP 2500 to the router. I'm not talking about vpn here, just regular connection.

I don't what is so special about their router, but I've seen problems with it. Other than that, I'm afraid I don't know how to fix that either.

 

Thanks for the info. I guess I will try to do a more thorough search and see what I come up with. I take it that this isn't Bootcamp specific then as far as you recall? I hadn't seen this before on any of the home PCs that we've installed this on at work, but there is only about 10 of those, so I was probably a bit quick to blame Bootcamp.