Belkin Pre-N Network Card

Purchased the Pre-N card and router from Belkin. The router works
great, but the card does not see the router during a scan.
My old network card (Netgear) sees the router and runs fine.
Tried the Belkin card in a 2nd notebook, but same results - does not
see the network. Tech support was of little help, except telling me
that PC card slot need to be a type III in order to run a 32bit bus
card. However, my old Netgear card, which works, is a 32bit bus card.
Any suggestions?

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Purchased the Pre-N card and router from Belkin. The router works
> great, but the card does not see the router during a scan.
> My old network card (Netgear) sees the router and runs fine.
> Tried the Belkin card in a 2nd notebook, but same results - does not
> see the network. Tech support was of little help, except telling me
> that PC card slot need to be a type III in order to run a 32bit bus
> card. However, my old Netgear card, which works, is a 32bit bus
card.
> Any suggestions?

Id say either the card was broke or something else is wrong.
How old are the notebooks?
Is the old netgear a PCMCIA or a Cardbus.
What OS?

The notebooks are both less than 2 years old. The Netgear card is a
32bit Cardbus. OS is WinXP Home.

Did you load the Belkin software for the card?

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Purchased the Pre-N card and router from Belkin. The router works
> great, but the card does not see the router during a scan.
> My old network card (Netgear) sees the router and runs fine.
> Tried the Belkin card in a 2nd notebook, but same results - does not
> see the network. Tech support was of little help, except telling me
> that PC card slot need to be a type III in order to run a 32bit bus
> card. However, my old Netgear card, which works, is a 32bit bus card.
> Any suggestions?
>

"Rodney Kelp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Did you load the Belkin software for the card?

Also how is the network setup?

To use wpa you need to use windows wireless config and not the belkin stuff.
For wep you should be ok with either |Did the drivers install ok? Any yellow
exclamation marks in the device manager?

Also do you have all the network settings you need set correctly (both for
the connection, and also security for the wireless network config). Have you
tried adding a wireless network manually with the correct sttings?

daniel

My guess is that you might, indeed, have the router set for WPA an
you're still trying to use the Belkin utility on the Pre-N card at th
pc. As suggested above, you'll need to let Windows XP manage th
connection, and then tell XP wireless networking to use WPA - then mak
sure all the settings, key, etc are the same at both ends of th
connection

I've been using all three Pre-N devices (router, laptop card, pc card
for more than 2 months, and they truly blow away anything else I'v
used (and with 26 years IT consulting experience, I've used MANY DLink
Netgear, Linksys, etc, solutions - this IS the best I've ever seen)

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jonaze
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