Wireless B network adaptor trouble

[Roy D Carlson]

I own a Sony VAIO PCGRV650 notebook, and I've recently
purchased a D-Link DWL650+ wireless PCMCIA card for it.
Whe I first started using the card, everything seemed to
work fine. However, over the past couple of months, I've
experienced very strange problems.

When I restarted the computer, the card would not be
recognized. If I changed to a different PCMCIA slot, the
computer would ask for drivers for the card, install the
drivers, and show a code 10 error in the device manager.
I uninstalled the driver, restarted the computer,
reinserted the card, and everything would be fine again.
However, as soon as I shut the computer off or let it dit
for more than an hour or two, the laptop would loose its
ability to see the card again.

I downloaded the most recent version of the D-Link
software, as they recommended, and tried that. However,
lately the problem has gotten worse...now when I insert
the card, Windows thinks it's a Texas Instruments TIX100
wireless card instead...it installs default drivers for
this device, but of course it doesn't work. When I try
to update using the proper D-Link driver, it tells me
that the driver installed is the most compatible, and
that it couldn't find a better driver (when I direct it
to search in the folder with the correct drivers).

I've found a little help here and there on Microsoft's
website, but nothing to explain why widows sees this as a
Texas Instruments card and not a D-Link. I mean, the D-
Link worked fine when I first got it, but then windows
started producing all these errors, and now it won't work
at all.

If anyone can be of any help, please let me know. I'm
fimilar with the windows registry, and it sounds like a
registry problem...either that or the card sucks.

Thanks

Roy D Carlson

 

[\(yet another\) Steve]

Try turning off all "Power Save" options for the card. It may be going into
standby and is unable to wake-up.
Steve

 

[PAul Maskens]

Strange, I was about to say ...


I own a Compaq Evn N1015v and last year I purchased a D-Link DWL650+
wireless PCMCIA card for it.
Whe I first started using the card, everything seemed to work fine.
However, over the past couple of months, I've
experienced very strange problems.

When I restarted the computer, the card would not be recognized.
I uninstalled the driver, restarted the computer, reinserted the card, and
everything would be fine again.

I downloaded the most recent version of the D-Link software, as they
recommended, and tried that.
However, lately the problem has gotten worse...now when I insert the card,
Windows thinks it's a Texas Instruments ACX100 wireless card instead...it
installs default drivers for this device.

I noticed a new device in device manager called "Jungo" with a picture of a
network card, but it is not in the network section. I thought that was
suspicious so I rolled back to a system restore point from a time when all
used to work.
No luck, still the card was mis-recognised as the TI ACX100 (which is the
chipset on the Dlink card).
So I uninstalled everything (again) and reinserted the card - and accepted
the TI drivers Windows XP offered me.

Without the D-Link drivers installed the card seems to work!!
It picked up a wireless network from somewhere else in the office building,
so maybe it's going to work at home.


I think that it is related to a Windows update installed over the last few
weeks, but which one I have no idea.

I tried with a Belkin card, and that worked for one day.
Next day I tried inserting the car - it locked up the laptop SOLID.
100% CPU resources assigned to "System" in task mangler - not really
helpful.
And the CA antivirus bouncing ball stopped bouncing.

So I uninstalled it all and that card's going back to PC World.


But I still think that it's Windows XP that is the problem here, not the
DLink card.

 

[PAul Maskens]

I have never used power save on my card, because I didn't trust it to wake
up on demand to keep the link protocol alive.
So that's not the fault in my almost identical case.