It's my fault for trying this: I have a Sony Vaio laptop, PCG-Z505R, which is "certified" to run with Windows 98, and I successfully got Windows XP Pro working on it.
I was able to get a lot of equipment to function just fine including Bluetooth cards and Wi-Fi cards, but after installing service pack 1 for WinXP and reconfiguring something (I can't even recall what), I'm no longer able to get wireless networking to work. Bluetooth still works fine, and the cards are recognized when inserted (Orinoco Gold, Linksys WPC11 version 3). The hardware reports fine. But I don't get any options to get on a network. Available networks shows nothing and Advanced is greyed out. Boingo software says there's no card inserted. I've just reinstalled Windows XP Pro on the laptop, and no luck either. I'm now reinstalling the SP1 and other updates to see if that helps. Anyone have any experience with this? I'd hate to have to pay the premium (this unit was $500 used with a CD-ROM drive) to get a newer Vaio with XP support guaranteed. (By the way, Sony, Boingo, Linksys, and Proxim have all responded to my tech support requests with this problem, and all of them have more or less described sequences I've tried. Since Sony doesn't support XP with this machine, I have a hard time blaming them. i.Link/IEEE1394 won't work on it either because the OHCI support in XP isn't compatible with its internal hardware.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com freelance journalist - New York Times, Macworld mag, O'Reilly Networks Practical Mac columnist, Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ interested in wireless 802.11b networking? http://80211b.weblogger.com my web blog updated at http://blog.glennf.com . ichat : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
