Firmware for wireless card?

[knives2276]

I had to reformate the computer a month or so back. before then th
wireless card on the PC worked fine. but now it will not work. i
says the following after i put the card in the slot

"The device "Ricoh R/RL/RT/RC/5C475(II), R5C520 o
Compatible Cardbus controller" has detected a Cardbus in it
slot, But the firmware on this system is not configured to allow th
cardbus controller to be run in cardbus mode, The operating syste
wil

there is more to it but there is not enough room in the little are
that the message comes up in and if i click it it just disapears so
can't even read the rest. who's bright idea was that anyway

how do i configure the firmware to allow the wireless card to work
there has to be a way because it worked fine once. windows is u
todate as is the motherboard and bios. it took FORever to do o
AOhell.

and the software for the card is already in. the computer just won'
let the card work. can anyone help

thanks,

 

[George Macdonald]

I had to reformate the computer a month or so back. before then the
wireless card on the PC worked fine. but now it will not work. it
says the following after i put the card in the slot

It would help if you told a bit more about the computer, OS and wireless
card. I'm guessing this is a desktop computer (mbrd, chipset ?), running
Windows XP SP2 with a Belkin F5D8000 Wireless Pre-N Desktop Network Card?

"The device "Ricoh R/RL/RT/RC/5C475(II), R5C520 or
Compatible Cardbus controller" has detected a Cardbus in its
slot, But the firmware on this system is not configured to allow the
cardbus controller to be run in cardbus mode, The operating system
wil"

I'd guess the end of the msg was likely: "... The operating system will
currently accept only 16-bit (R2) pc-cards on this controller."

there is more to it but there is not enough room in the little area
that the message comes up in and if i click it it just disapears so i
can't even read the rest. who's bright idea was that anyway.

Maybe reduce font size in Display Properties if you really want to see the
full msg. This happens with a lot of dialog boxes in Windows when fonts
are mismatched to display resolution.

how do i configure the firmware to allow the wireless card to work?
there has to be a way because it worked fine once. windows is up
todate as is the motherboard and bios. it took FORever to do on
AOhell.

and the software for the card is already in. the computer just won't
let the card work. can anyone help?

I've had trouble in the past with Cardbus when things were connected or
installed in the wrong order. Did you follow the installation
precisely?... install the PCI card and startup Windows *without* the
wireless card, or its software, first? This should install the Windows
PCMCIA/Cardbus driver; at this point you should check Device Manager to be
sure that it's confiured properly - then you install the software and
finally plug in the wireless card.

Other than that have you checked for driver updates at Belkin?