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I was using the Linksys Wrieless router BEFW11S4 and the Linksys Adapter and card on my Dell Dimension 8200 and everything was running along smoothly...THEN I UPGRADED TO XP!! Now my computer will not recognize the card or adapter. I have installed and uninstalled the card and adapter. I have downloaded and installed the new drivers from Linksys. I have read so many forums and FAQs that I am going crazy!! Could someome pleeze give me some step by step instructions on how to fix this problelm. Also, my other computer is running Windows 98 and the same card and adpater and it is working fine. Thanks so much!
Did you ever get the problem resolved. I'm having a terrible time getting my configuration (identical to yours) running -- the driver leads to an outright XP crash any time I try to change a setting in the hardware setup page...but it will not connect with the default settings.
For what it's worth, here's what Linksys tech support had to say. Haven't tried it yet, but will tonight:
Dear John,
Thank you for contacting Linksys Customer Support.
Please configure the card through its configuration utility and not through the hardware properties. If you haven't installed this yet, please do. The utility is included in the driver download. If you are not able to run the utility, try configuring the card through XP's wireless configuration utility. There should be an icon for wireless network on your SYS TRAY, which is part of XP (icon resembles 2 computers like on 2000), double click on it and check if you are showing a green signal. If not, click the advance button, click on wireless network tab, click refresh or wait a couple of seconds and you should see a green icon with the word Linksys or their SSID name. When you can see the ssid in the wireless tab, click connect and you should see the green signal. Once you see the green signal your connected. (please refer to the attached document)
If you still experience problems, please try uninstalling the driver from the device manager, restart your computer and reinstall.
Please email me again regarding the outcome. Thank you!
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Linksys Customer service SUCKS !!!. I have tried for over a week to get this wireless product to work with my XP computers. I called and verified compatibility before purchase. Was told to have v.2.5 and everything fine. FINALLY got through to tech support and they told me to download NEW driver and I infomed them of that and they said to do it again and if did not work to call back. I am on hold again. I was transfered and disconnected. BE Honest Linksys. If you product does not work, TELL people. Don't string us along. I have been able to connect with Cat5 cable for time being. Defeats the purpose of NEw laptops and New routers and cards. Little Pissed!
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Try this trick...
Power off your wireless router and your cable/dsl device. Wait 30 seconds. Turn on your cable/dsl modem. Wait 30 seconds. Turn on your wireless router.
See if that helped. I don't know why, but that worked for me. I run WinXP Home on a desktop and use Linksys's wireless Cable/DSL router.
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I finally got my windows XP laptop to work when I entered the "key code number" that I had from the router. (using the WEP feature) The problem I am no having, I can't get it to work with the windows 98 laptop. I've tried everything !!
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The reality of this is that Microsoft really really changed the wireless network standards in XP - even added the somewhat dubious 'media sense' feature and tied that to XP. I have a system that consistently works for like 30 seconds, perfectly, flawlessly.. and then XP decides that the interface is down because some API that I can't disable wanders in and doesn't like the results of some metric.
Darn them.
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I am not even getting this far - I have a "Cannot Install Hardware" error (A service installation section in this INF file is invalid) when trying to install the WCP11 Ver 3 PC card. I saw that HP has a product that is XP compliant - maybe that's the way to go?
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I just got my laptop the other day. I'll be going on my 3rd Restore tonight or tomorrow. I've narrowed the problem down to trying to access my home network. Yesterday I restored the computer and installed the drivers from Linksys web site. Connected beautifully. Updated XP and all other software that I have. While updating one piece of software I lost my connection. I tried to access my home network and nothing. Two hours spent setting settings and nothing worked.
This morning I restored again and before I did anything with XP I installed my WPC11 v2.5 drivers from the original disk. Not the upgraded ones downloaded yesterday. Got online...checked some online email...other pages. SUPER...it works. Tried accessing my other computers to get some downloaded software and within 30 seconds of downloading from another computer on my network I lost the connection. Said path not found. Couldn't get online or anything.
My problem yesterday, when I lost my online connection, was because I was trying to get something from my internal network at the same time as from on the internet. That is my problem and I don't know how to solve it. Any help would be appreciated. Email me or post here.
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Hi Everyone,
I found the solution to the problem with the 30 second disconnects with winXP today! Or at least one of them.
Theres a service that must be disabled known - the wireless zero configuration thing.
Right click on My Computer, Manage, expand services and applications, click Services, scroll to the bottom and open Wireless Zero Configuration. Set Startyp type to disabled, hit ok and reboot.
That fixed it for me at least.
Nick
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I really don't know now. I was online yesterday morning with the WPC11 and the BEFW11S4 router. For a few hours I was. Tried to access my LAN and it went to hell again. No internet and no LAN can I connect to. Left my WPC11 alone because I wanted to try it at school last night. Worked beautiful at school. For around 4 hours at school I was getting super download rates. I work midnights so when I got home this morning I plug it in and NADA. No internet. The weird part about my problem is that I'm getting my IP from the DHCP on the router no problem. I "ipconfig /release" to zero it out and the use repair or "ipconfig /renew" to get my ip back and it gets it again. I'm connected I just can't do anything on the connection. Really...any help in this stupid problem would be appreciated. It works at school like a champ...no changes...get home it doesn't. I am not using the Utility that you can download from Linksys either. I'm only using the wireless stuff that comes with XP now also. Unlike the guy with the post above. I did what he suggested just now and it didn't work for me.
I shouldn't be having any problem anyway. I am connected after all.
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Finally...
My current sys is: windowsXP Pro, sony vaio GRX570, linksys WPC11 (the first version, not v.3), and a D-Link WAP.I had ALL of the same problems, wacked tech support, wack documentation, seemingly wack drivers. Needless to say, I spent a ton of time on the phones. I finally got my set-up going by 1) installing XP drivers from Linksys' site (not the WPC11 v.3, because i have one of the earlier wireless PC Cards), i installed the utility, but i didnt run it on start-up, left Wireless Zero Config service as default - to auto start, but... the one thing that i had to tweak was the SSID. I'm set in 'infrastructure mode', with no WEP, and NO SSID. By default it's 'linksys' so you have to remove it from the 'configuration' tab within your Nic's properties. Then, 'Apply Changes' and voila, it should work.
good luck,
mc
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Maybe not the right place to jump in, BUT have an original WPC11 and running XP on a new Dell Insperion 8100 . . . couldn't get the WPC11 to work correctly worked with x2 tech. support people at linksys the second be better and he determined the card was bad??? How can I be certain of this??? Said I'd be better with the Version 3.0 as it is better supported under XP. Dowloaded and installed correct drivers for original WPC11 and the Utilities application. Was receiving BUT could not send packets . . . couldn't ping the router. Any ideas beyond swaping the card for a new one???
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