Kevin
Blazen Wireless wrote:
This has been rolling around in the back of my head all day. I did some checking with my XP machine and had some thoughts as well. I may be all wrong, and it wouldn't be the first time I was, but I don't think I'm too far off.
I stuffed an AirCarte into my XP Pro machine here at EC and had a no association problem until I turned the ESSID broadcast back on in the APP (Had to be able to find the AP before I could associate with it!). It seems to be fine, now. Now that it is associated, I was able to go back in and shut the ESSID broadcast off. Still seems fine. I re-booted so it would have to look for it again and it found it just fine. My laptop came with XP on it.
It has been my experience that laptops in particular seem to behave better with the OS that was originally installed on them at the factory. Drivers and often hardware items are optimized for the original OS and upgrading the OS many times does not provide drivers that work the way they are supposed to with either the OS or the hardware. Setup for XP may not have touched all or possibly any of the hardware drivers necessary to allow the card to function properly. So, I would check for updated drivers for your laptop's PCMCIA hardware, PCI bridge, or other bus related hardware. A BIOS upgrade may be in order as well.
While the two OS's are similar, they are different and will interact with the laptop's hardware differently do not believe it is an issue with Smartbridges hardware or software. I think it is with the interaction of your laptop with XP when your laptop originally had Win 2K on it and was optimized for Win 2K..
Like I said, I may be all wet, but this follows my past experiences with trying to up grade the OS on a laptop and even some desktops.
Kevin
Lewis Watson wrote:
XP Professional. I tried each suggestion as before up to even formatting and reinstalling Windows XP. Same exact problem. It associates for a minute or so and then loses association. It worked fine for months with Windows 2k Pro. Lewis----- Original Message ----- From: "sB Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] AirCarte... Any good?What is the issue with using airCarte on WinXP? The airCarte can work on WinXP or any other Windows platform without any issue. On WInXP, you can use our airMonitor utility or Windows Wireless Zero Configuration tool to configure it. Is the WinXP Pro or Home edition? Alex sB Tech Support -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lewis Watson Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [smartBridges] AirCarte... Any good? : [smartBridges] AirCarte... Any good?MessageIs the AirCarte any good or are there better PCMCIA cards onthemarket? If so, would you recommend one with can use an externalantenna? I had great use of this card with Windows 2000 Pro. I upgraded to Windows XP and cannot get the card to work, even after trying all suggestions from this list. Some people say it's a Microsoft issue and I don't doubt it, however, Microsoft is not going to change anything to make it work so I highly suggest that sB do something to make the card useful with Window's XP. I do not have ESSID broadcasted from the AP so perhaps that's where the trouble comes in since other people have no problem with it in XP... I dunno. Lewis ANNOUNCEMENT WISPCON IV - Can You Ping Me Now? Good! October 27-29, 2003 - Dallas Texas http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm WISP 101 Boot Camp September 29-October 3, 2003 - Chicago, Illinois http://www.part-15.org/train/wisp/101.html The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org ANNOUNCEMENT WISPCON IV - Can You Ping Me Now? Good! October 27-29, 2003 - Dallas Texas http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm WISP 101 Boot Camp September 29-October 3, 2003 - Chicago, Illinois http://www.part-15.org/train/wisp/101.html The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribesmartBridges <yournickname>To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribesmartBridges)Archives: http://archives.part-15.orgANNOUNCEMENT WISPCON IV - Can You Ping Me Now? Good! October 27-29, 2003 - Dallas Texas http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm WISP 101 Boot Camp September 29-October 3, 2003 - Chicago, Illinois http://www.part-15.org/train/wisp/101.html The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
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