Can PCMCIA and USB work together?

Hi Group,
Running Win98SE with a D-Link DWL 650+ as the main card perfectly happily
but i also have a USB Netgear MA111 that i would sometimes want to use,
trouble is whenever i remove the PCMCIA card and reboot with the USB
inserted it just doesnt recognise its there and the utitlity doesnt load up,
has the D-link 'stolen' all the wireless action even when its not in use? Is
there a way round this?

cheers

Dave

Happy Dave <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi Group,
> Running Win98SE with a D-Link DWL 650+ as the main card perfectly happily
> but i also have a USB Netgear MA111 that i would sometimes want to use,
> trouble is whenever i remove the PCMCIA card and reboot with the USB
> inserted it just doesnt recognise its there and the utitlity doesnt load up,
> has the D-link 'stolen' all the wireless action even when its not in use? Is
> there a way round this?

Broken operating system/drivers.
It should work just fine.
Have you checked you'r using the most recent drivers, and that you've
used the proper sort of knife when sacrificing the goat?

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"Happy Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3f946fbf$0$11246$(E-Mail Removed) ...
> Hi Group,
> Running Win98SE with a D-Link DWL 650+ as the main card perfectly happily
> but i also have a USB Netgear MA111 that i would sometimes want to use,
> trouble is whenever i remove the PCMCIA card and reboot with the USB
> inserted it just doesnt recognise its there and the utitlity doesnt load
up,
> has the D-link 'stolen' all the wireless action even when its not in use?
Is
> there a way round this?
>
> cheers
>
> Dave
>
>

First, if everything is working correctly, there would be no need to reboot.
You can remove PCMCIA cards without having to reboot. And you can add USB
devices without rebooting. I would suggest removing all drivers and
re-installing for both. I would also recomend then upgrading to XP or
better yet, 2000. 98SE, being a great OS, has a drawback, it does not know
automatically how to handle multiple network cards. XP and 2000
automatically bind everything so you can share the connections seamlessly.
One of my managers just got a new Dell notebook with the built in wireless
and it came with XP Pro. I told him that he was lucky because when he
docks, he will have both the 100baseT connection as well as the wireless
going. Sort of an extra kick in the pants you might say to overcome
internal bandwidth hogs.

Good luck. I would suggest also doing some extra reading in the networking
arena. I am still be amazed by the cool stuff you can do these days.

later