hello all, my step-dad has a compaq 1700t laptop and he had win ME on it. he decided to upgrade to win2k because his digital camcorder didn't work on it. so all of the periphrials that he had installed before, he didn't take them off when he did an upgrade so when the upgrade was done, the wifi card didn't work. i uninstalled it and that was ok so i went to install it again and it said "network device not ready". that happens when i try to run the setup .exe file. so i decided that we probably have to uninstall the wifi router. i went to do that and it said that some of the files are missing? i don't understand why i can't uninstall the wifi router. right now he has win2k and it's a linksys wifi card and router 54g. nice card and router so it's a pain that it doesn't work. he can get on the internet with a conventional rj-45 cord but he (rightley so)wants the wifi card to work. also, when it did work under win ME, he said that the signal strength wasn't that strong, is there anyway of making it stronger without buying a signal booster? thanx in advance, <shad>

Shad: The linksys WRT54G and other Linksys 802.11g kit are very tricky to get working. In our experience - and we lost a lot of hair getting our WiFi network to work, it seems to be the order in which drivers and software is loaded. Your best bet is to contact Linksys directly and follow - to the letter- their installation instructions. Since I don't know exactly what you have, this is the best option. You will, unless the cards are damaged get this working. Range in our office is about 20m - reliably, 35m unreliably. Good luck.

but why does it say "network device not ready" whenever i try to run the installation for the wifi card? this is what confuses me. <shad>

Shad: Thats exactly what happened in our installation. In our experience, following the linksys installation instructions exactly is the way to go. Richard