Hi, This is really strange - has anyone experienced the same......??? I work for a wireless networking company and we're frequently testing out Cisco Client cards and Oranges latest 3G PCMCIA cards..... However two of our engineers have HP(Compaq) notebooks and we just can't get get any PCMCIA cards to work(be recognised). All other laptops here are fine and the HP(Compaq) can use it's own in-built wireless card fine just not any others! One laptop in question is the NC8000 which by all means is the mutt's nuts! Is this a common feature with HP that their own hardware dominates control of windows networking or that the internal card is conflicting???? I have tried every thing from disabling the internal card, updating my drivers etc. My next step is to take apart the laptop and remove the internal wireless card as it seems to be interfering with any additional wireless hardware! Also the internal card(Intel) keep dropping connections frequently hence me wanting to use a Cisco one instead! I have also had a few reports coming in that 3G customers are struggling to install the cards on HP(Compaqs). Does anyone have any work arounds for this problem please? HP(Compaq) themselves do not have many ideas atm! Help appreciated!

Guess you need to hire better staff. I don't mind helping the regular Joe but if you are a company then I think that line one is correct.

Well our staff specialise in more complex things and we don't really have the time to spend playing around with M$ problems and drivers etc. If you object to sharing your knowledge because I am employed then that is rather petty.

I think it is great that you have a job. Better still that I have a job. I think that it is petty of me to withhold information from a company that should have staff to fix this. I might be able to fix it but since I invested well, retired from IBM and don't care to work that might be a problem.