Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:46:41 +0100 From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Netgear wireless card problems on 50CT
Further to these problems, I believe there is some kind of basic hardware conflict. I've installed ZipSlack (the 100MB version of Slackware Linux) and tried the MA401 here. I plug it into the Libretto when linux has booted and the card is recognised and I'm connected to the network. I can ping other computers on the network and I can ping google.com. But after about 20-30 seconds, the card and the computer just freeze. Exactly as it does under Windows 98.
Has anyone else used this network card successfully in a 50CT? It works fine in two laptops I have running W98. But not this one... I've read other people stating that they have the card running fine under Linux.
It's really annoying. I had all kinds of wireless plans for the Libretto, it being so small and lovely...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Netgear wireless card problems on 50CT Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:53:54 +0100 From: . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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