RALINK RT2500 devices not working together

I have a PCMCIA card with an RT2500 chip in.
This comes with the RALINK drivers and utilities.
Seems to work O.K. under Win2K apart from when using WEP/PSK.

I impulse bought a Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter F5D7050UK because
it was under £20 in John Lewis.

I installed it as instructed on my Win2K portable with the RALINK card
already in and working) but couldn't get the Belkin management utility to
start.

Once I checked and found they were both using similar chips (RA2500 and
RA2500USB) I became suspicious.

I closed down, removed the RALINK card and restarted.

The Belkin utility then worked fine and I could configure the card.

Subject to further testing, this seems to me a major bug.

I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to have two active wireless
devices on the same system at the same time.

For instance, I might want to bridge between two wireless networks.

Anyone else had this problem?

Cheers

Dave R

you might be interested...
http://research.microsoft.com/netres/
scroll down to Virtual WiFi go there

"David WE Roberts" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have a PCMCIA card with an RT2500 chip in.
> This comes with the RALINK drivers and utilities.
> Seems to work O.K. under Win2K apart from when using WEP/PSK.
>
> I impulse bought a Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter F5D7050UK because
> it was under £20 in John Lewis.
>
> I installed it as instructed on my Win2K portable with the RALINK card
> already in and working) but couldn't get the Belkin management utility to
> start.
>
> Once I checked and found they were both using similar chips (RA2500 and
> RA2500USB) I became suspicious.
>
> I closed down, removed the RALINK card and restarted.
>
> The Belkin utility then worked fine and I could configure the card.
>
> Subject to further testing, this seems to me a major bug.
>
> I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to have two active wireless
> devices on the same system at the same time.
>
> For instance, I might want to bridge between two wireless networks.
>
> Anyone else had this problem?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave R

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:48:47 +0000, bumtracks wrote:

> you might be interested...
> http://research.microsoft.com/netres/
> scroll down to Virtual WiFi go there

Well, yeah, so they are thinking about allowing a single physical card to
support multiple network identities.
[Sounds slow given the overheads on current WiFi cards]

Much as Ethernet cards do now.

Interesting, for sure.

However I want to have two different physical cards each connected to a
different logical network which is hardly rocket science.

Being unable to even manage the second device when the first is active is
pretty awful.

So: has anyone else had this problem?

TIA
Dave R