Problem With Wireless D-Link DWL-120+ USB NIC connection in Windows 2000

Hello,

Does anyone know why my father's Dell machine (don't have the exact
model offhand) with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates) and the latest NIC
driver (from Web site) has a problem with the NIC connection everytime
the computer is powered on (not power management) and Windows 2000 is
loaded? We tried moving the NIC to other USB ports (front and back), but
we can't seem to configure the network connection and the driver. NIC
seems to like the same port to work. Rebooting the computer mostly works
(90% works).

In order to fix the problem, he has to unplug the USB NIC and replugs
in. Then, Windows will find it and network connection is established
without any incidents. This is very annoying. Windows' Device Manager
doesn't show anything odd when it is working. It does show a yellow "!"
for this NIC when it is not found.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.

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Be sure you have the correct driver since that card has many flavors. Try
the card in another PC... could be a bad card.
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:BbmdnQsmn4TGoC6iRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know why my father's Dell machine (don't have the exact
> model offhand) with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates) and the latest NIC
> driver (from Web site) has a problem with the NIC connection everytime
> the computer is powered on (not power management) and Windows 2000 is
> loaded? We tried moving the NIC to other USB ports (front and back), but
> we can't seem to configure the network connection and the driver. NIC
> seems to like the same port to work. Rebooting the computer mostly works
> (90% works).
>
> In order to fix the problem, he has to unplug the USB NIC and replugs
> in. Then, Windows will find it and network connection is established
> without any incidents. This is very annoying. Windows' Device Manager
> doesn't show anything odd when it is working. It does show a yellow "!"
> for this NIC when it is not found.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.
>
> --
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Here's what weird. I used to work for a month, and all the sudden it has
problems.


In alt.internet.wireless John <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Be sure you have the correct driver since that card has many flavors. Try
> the card in another PC... could be a bad card.
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:BbmdnQsmn4TGoC6iRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know why my father's Dell machine (don't have the exact
> > model offhand) with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates) and the latest NIC
> > driver (from Web site) has a problem with the NIC connection everytime
> > the computer is powered on (not power management) and Windows 2000 is
> > loaded? We tried moving the NIC to other USB ports (front and back), but
> > we can't seem to configure the network connection and the driver. NIC
> > seems to like the same port to work. Rebooting the computer mostly works
> > (90% works).
> >
> > In order to fix the problem, he has to unplug the USB NIC and replugs
> > in. Then, Windows will find it and network connection is established
> > without any incidents. This is very annoying. Windows' Device Manager
> > doesn't show anything odd when it is working. It does show a yellow "!"
> > for this NIC when it is not found.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.
> >
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This is a follow-up and a repost:

I have a Dell machine with Windows 2000 SP4 (all updates) and the latest
NIC driver (from DLink's Web site) has a problem with the NIC connection
everytime the computer is powered on (not power management) and Windows
2000 is loaded. The NIC is not found. We tried moving the NIC to other
USB ports (front and back), but we can't seem to configure the network
connection and the driver. NIC seems to like the same port to work.
Rebooting the computer mostly works (75% chance, it works).

In order to fix the missing NIC problem, he has to unplug the USB NIC
and replugs it in. Then, Windows will find it and network connection is
established without any incidents. This is very annoying. When a reboot
occur and network is not established. Windows' Device Manager show a
yellow "!" for this NIC when it is not working. Disabling it and
re-enabling it. Note the two different symptoms: Power off and power on:
NIC is not found. Reboot (75% success without problems): NIC is not
working and Windows' device manager shows "!" (workarounds: reboot
again, unplug and replug, OR disable and re-enable NIC in device
manager).

The Dell machine is Optiplex GX 260 (P4 3 Ghz). I tried removing the
drivers, upgrading Intel 82801 USB Controller for Windows 2000 SP4 as
noted on http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.as...stion=DWL-120+
...., etc. No luck.

The weird part is that there were no problems in the beginning and then
all the sudden one day, this started happening ever since (three weeks
already).

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.
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