on about the 50th try trying to flash grbl on an stm32, i get this popup telling me my system needs an update. so i go ahead and do it and use the time to go upstairs to pee and build a wiring harness for a stepper motor. i come down and find that my wifi doesnt work anymore. no problem i have a degree in networking i can fix it. dhcp keeps trying to allocate an address that's outside of my router's subnet, routers working fine other computers dont have any trouble getting internet. ok release and renew. nope. i figure ms screwed up a driver update and needed roll it back. lol,no, sorry dave im afraid i cant let you do that. il have to do it manually.
so i go over to another computer grab the onboard wifi driver from the asus site. there are 3 versions so i download all of them. one of them is a whopping 400+mb, for a ******* network driver. anyway i instal them in series from newest to oldest, removing the old version and rebooting in between. none of them work. in the process i noticed that batch files are opening in notepad++ rather than launching. i fix the file association and i start the whole process over again. no dice. so i just reinstall the most recent version.
so screw that il just use a static ip. set up a reservation on the router, then set the adapter to use it. dns to all ones. gateway to the router's local ip. no internet but at least i can get into the router config without getting up. theres not much i can do there. by now several hours have passed.
windows 10 has this annoying problem with having 2 interfaces. the old skool config windows that haven't changed much since windows 2000, you know the ones i can operate on autopilot because of years of muscle memory. and then they have the hiptsterized interface with much fewer options but hey at least they look pretty. its like giving the inside of your engine compartment a fancy paintjob even though you only open it when there is a problem or for standard maintenance.
thing is if you change a setting in one, the other one keeps the old setting, its sort of like a tug of war, if you dont change it in both places it doesnt stick. idk what did it, i tweaked so much stuff that im not quite sure what setting fixed it. know i turned off firewall and disable my antivirus, and screwed around with every ip/network setting imaginable. but the little yellow blip on the tray icon disappeared, i opened chrome and got google to come up. so i finally got a working static ip, and im still clueless as to why this broke in the first place. anyway i start undoing things i did to try to revert anything that didn't need to be changed, but each time things stopped working. no dhcp, no windows firewall, but it works.
what is it with developers these days? changing old interfaces for what, so you can make the old people look stupid? at least have the decency to get rid of the old one so they dont get confused. rolling out updates more broken than what was already running? and for what? increased security? most people get hacked because of social engineering, or doing something stupid, or pissing off the wrong person by being an *******, not because they didnt install their updates. curse them all.
end of rant
Edited by LordNothing, 30 January 2019 - 12:30 PM.