Installing D-Link DWL-G650+

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Guest

I have just installed Windows XP Home on a Dell Latutude C600 laptop. I
installed the driver for the DWL-G650+ PCMCIA wireless adapter and the
installation guide says restart and windows will start the 'New Hardware
found' wizard. I pushed the card in, restarted but no 'new hardware found'
wizard appears. No led is lit on the card. The card worked fine on this
machine under Windows ME. 'Add hardware' does not recognize it. What to do?
 
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Graham Prentice

The earlier dlink nics from a few years ago needed the drivers to be
installed first.
Uninstall.
Install drivers first. Then insert h/w.
Graham
 
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BigJim said:
did you install all the chipset drivers for the motherboard
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Could you clarify please? What chipset drivers and where do they come from?
TIA
whittycat
 
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Guest

Graham Prentice said:
The earlier dlink nics from a few years ago needed the drivers to be
installed first.
Uninstall.
Install drivers first. Then insert h/w.
Graham
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Thanks for reply. Yes I did; this was recommended in the installation guide
whittycat
 
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Guest

Graham Prentice said:
The earlier dlink nics from a few years ago needed the drivers to be
installed first.
Uninstall.
Install drivers first. Then insert h/w.
Graham

(more) I looked in the D-Link manual under troubleshooting and it said I should check that the driver gor installed -- under Hardware -> Device Manager -- and it is not there. So I uninstalled, re-installed and it is still not there but I do have a file AirPlus.exe in C:\D-Link, size 1440k. Do I need to move it to the right place?
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whittycat
 
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Guest

<even more> It doesn't work anything like it says in the manual. I have
two PCMCIA slots and the lower one, normally unused, has a piece of plkastic
in it. I took this out and plugged the card into the lower slot and the new
hardware wizard appeared. This installed the card and it now does appear in
the hardware list under network adapters. So I am now connected to the
router. Thanks very much for your help,
whittycat
 

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