I bought a used Panasonic Toughbook that cam with a working 802.11g
pcmcia card. Because I would benefit from being able to use an external
antenna I bought an Orinoco Gold 8470-WD 11b/g card.
Problem is that the card would not work. I always had an error in Device
Manager of "Card cannot start, Code-10", which Proxim said was an
incorrect installation. After several uninstall & reinstalls they said
they could only suggest to try the card in another laptop.
Shortly thereafter while trying the un-re route again the laptop locked.
When I rebooted the card began working! I had uninstalled the card
control utility but installed the driver. I noticed that the card was
being controlled by the Windows Zero Config utility. I unchecked the box
directing its use and reinstalled the Proxim card control utility.
Rebooted, at first did not work, then it did! This utility allows a lot
of control the Zero Config does not.
I immediately saved a system restore point.
All worked well for two days until I went to plug in the external
antenna. I could not get the little rubber cap off the card so I removed
it to get better access. The cap off I plugged in the antenna and
reinserted the card. Original problem back! Card cannot start, Code-10.
I have tried everything I can think of, though I am no expert. I removed
the antenna. I tried uninstalling=reinstalling,
uninstalling+reinstalling driver only, uninstall+reinstall all then
going to msconfig and not loading zero config, tried using pc management
to start, stop, disable zero config. Went back in system restore to the
save I made while all was working. No success.
Proxim feels my short term success means their card is fine and this is
a Windows problem, which is not theirs to fix. So their support is done
with me.
I'm using XP Pro. Any ideas?
Possible Clue? This is a previously owned laptop. For two months it
booted straight to Windows. A week ago it suddenly came up with a name
and pw entry. I ignored pw and clicked to continue and loading continued
every time. I went to User Accounts and saw no names there. I created an
Admin for myself, but on booting it still came up with the other name.
After my long session with Proxim the laptop suddenly began booting to
my name,asking for pw which was non existent so ignoring I'd click to
continue, which it did. It was in this boot config that the card began
working about an hour later. Still boots this way. And it was this setup
that was working with the card when I created the restore point. But as
mentioned that restore does not solve the problem of the card no longer
working after being removed and reinserted.
The original card does still work.
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