You're absolutely right: It isn't easy to configure this card with Windows
2000
There aren't any drivers on the Lucent site and not much on the agere site:
What there are on the Procom site don't work and when one downloads agere or
procom drivers from driverguide, (either a 5.25 meg file or a less than one
meg file with no distinctions as to which does what) they don't install. And
Procom seems to have a (possibly?) newer driver which doesn't work either.
If you plug the card in either before or after inserting the card, the light
goes on, the card lights up but the OS doesn't see it and trying the wizard
doesn't find it. Partially because windows 2000 goes through some curious
ritual involving spinning around pretending it has found something and then
without looking for drivers, telling you it hasn't found drivers. Then it
tells you that there was an error in installation and exits prior to
automatically re-commencing the whole ritual all over again. (this cant be
stopped)
If you do what Lucent suggests and install the software with the card OUT,
it just results in the icon in the systray telling you that there isn't a
card inserted however you try to configure the settings
What a mess!!!!!!!
(I haven't got to the bit about scanning for networks yet)
"Brothers and Sisters have I none,
But that man's father is My Father's Son"
"Rôgêr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My father's son wrote:
> > My next door neighbour just bought an 802.11b (or g) system to connect
all
> > his XP Home computers in his apartment together to his cable modem
> >
> > WHen he installed it, everything worked immediately on all computers and
> > without any particular configuration
> >
> > He had however left his laptop at work and I lent him mine running
Windows
> > 2000 with an Orinoco card which I had lying around, he said that it
didn't
> > connect to the network.
> >
> > The next day he brought his XP notebook home from work and told me that
it
> > works perfectly with my card and with out any hitches or configuration.
> >
> > I brought my notebook back and tried it in my apartment which must be
about
> > 80 ft away from their base station he is right: it DOESN'T work. It
> > doesn't give any error messages and tells me that the card is working
> > properly and the lights light up and when I open IE, it SEEMS to be
looking
> > for a network but nothing happens.
> >
> > I also know that there is a wifi station (in a coffee shop or
something?) a
> > block away but as we are on the 15th floor, I cant imagine its signal
would
> > strong enough here
> >
> > Anyone got any obvious suggestions as to what is wrong with my computer
> > which prevents it from logging into the next-door 'network'?
> >
> > MFS
>
> Win2K is not nearly as automatic in configuring wireless connections as
> XP. Have you tried opening the software that came with the Orinoco card
> and see if it finds the AP?
>
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