static electricity and wireless cards

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Hi.  I saw http://freeroller.net/page/sstirling/20030119 and your mention
of static electricity and your wireless card.  This morning, I discovered
my wireless card did not function at all.  I tried everything to get it
working.  The lights blink, but it can no longer scan the WAP (a Linksys
router).  The only thing I can remember is that yesterday when I was
carrying my laptop around, I statically discharged (zapped) the wireless
card sticking outside my laptop.  It actually continued to work, but when
I booted it up this morning, it would no longer connected.  I thought that
I had only zapped the antennae, not the card itself.

Was this your experience with wireless cards and static electricity?

Thanks!