Vista 32-Bit SP2 install broke my network adapter drivers

[mikectidtaylor]

I have a T61 model 765912G. I installed Vista SP2 from a fully up to date SP1 installation with everything working. It now has yellow warning triangles in Device Manager against: Intel (R) 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection and Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AG adapters. They now both show the following on the 'general' tab on their device properties:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.

I have uninstalled the device from device manager and rebooted, I have uninstalled the device from device manager and ticked 'remove drivers' and rebooted, I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the Lenovo website and I have also followed the link to the Vista solutions where I was directed to the Intel website from where I downloaded and installed the most current driver.

None of the above actions repaired this issue. I do have Cisco VPN client v5.0.00.0340 and VMWare Workstation v6 installed on my laptop btoh of which install virtual network devices, but both worked perfectly before the SP2 upgrade.

If anyone has seen this and knows what the fix is (short of uninstaling SP2) please let me know....
My line manager has the same model laptop with the same OS and had exactly the same problem, he uninstalled SP2 and everything worked properly afterwards. I'd like to persevere for a little while and try to fix this error.

I am online now by virtue of the fact that I have inserted a 3COM PCMCIA card into the PC Card slot on my laptop. This suggests that the network subsytem is OK, and it is just the drivers that SP2 has broken.

[K0LO]

I don't know if I can help but if it were me, I would uninstall the Cisco VPN client as a first troubleshooting test. They have never been able to produce a build that works properly with Vista, so that would be my first suspect.

My desktop machine has a virtual network adapter (from Virtual PC 2007) that survived the SP2 update just fine.

[jdhurst]

I have a T61p with Vista Business 64-bit, an Intel 3945 Wireless card, SafeNet SoftRemote V 11.1, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and VMware 6.5.2. All of that and the guests survived SP2 painlessly. There were no SP2 issues of any kind. So I would at this point agree with Mark that the Cisco VPN may be a good first suspect. .... JDH