and all I (other people, I am a moran) could figure out was some port had failed. I think I was on dial up at the time, but I could never get that computer on line again and it became a storage device.

the incident might be in the archives here if you do a search

I went to the site suggested and it said (if everything else fails) to get a plug-in WiFi adapter. I had an old one, so I plugged it in, and lo and behold, the WiFi worked. Then I tried it again without the adapter, and lo and behold again, it worked.

So all I can think of is, technology is weird.

But glad to have it back.