Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:53:54 +0100 From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Netgear wireless card problems on 50CT
Hi folks,
I have a 50CT on which I'm trying to install a Netgear MA401 Wireless PCMCIA
card. First, I tried it on the original Windows 95B. However, installation of the card on W95 either froze the computer during installation or whenever I plugged the card in (if I managed to get it to install at all). So, having nothing of worth on the computer, I wiped 95 and installed Windows 98 (having another laptop running W98 on which the MA401 worked beautifully).
On Windows 98, things are slightly better but not much. I can install the card, after a bit of jiggery-pokery. I can even, most of the time, plug it in and connect for a few moments to the wireless network. But all that fails the moment I try to actually *do* anything with it! Access Network Neighbourhood? Freeze. Access a computer on the network? Freeze. Blink? Freeze.
It does seem to be connecting to the wireless network as I can use the configuration doohickey it comes with to check the signal strength, etc. But the computer freezes within thirty seconds or so of plugging the card in, or when I try to spur it into action by connecting to another computer, etc.
I don't think it's overheating - I've tried it both in the Libretto and in the Port Replicator. In the former it does get quite hot, in the latter stays quite cool. But still the freezing.
Any hints and tips? I can use a PCMCIA ethernet card without any problems. It's just the wireless card that's giving me problems. I'm primarily confused because it's doing almost the same thing on W98 as it was on W95, which suggests a hardware problem rather than a software thing.
The Netgear card is 16-bit and 5V.
Thanks for any help... Patrick.
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