Linksys wireless card problem with ME

I will try this here, I got NO answers or even comments in the Windows ME General newsgroup.

I gave my college kid a Linksys wpc11 version3 - 2.4GHz - 802.11b wireless card to use in her Dell 8000 laptop running WinME. She ran the drivers via the Linksys CD. Her laptop shows the card properly configured in Device Manager, and her connection icon is lit. But she is unable to connect to the Internet. She's been through tech support (in India by the accents) with Dell, who blamed Linksys. She called Linksys who then blamed the internet server. The laptop was formerly configured to connect with her college's server via an ethernet connection. That is no longer available (out of the dorms for the summer) and we are trying to get her hooked up to one or more local wireless servers. She has gone through all the trouble shooting sets, reconfigured network neighborhood, and more. Still no connection in IE, even though the card shows a green signal

The card worked in my old laptop running Win98, to connect to our home network, as well as to connect to TMobile and a wireless freenet available locally. I have a new laptop running XPHome with integrated ethernet and I get the wireless signals we are trying to access on her laptop just fine. What are we missing, since so far every tech we've talked to is passing the buck

Also, while on my XP machine I can choose from several connections via my wireless network connection box, she hasn't been able to find anything similar in ME. It seems like you choose one connection, and if you wish to switch to a different one you need to reconfigure and reboot. Is there another way, similar to XP, to allow her to choose between several active wireless signals without all this nonsense (assuming we can get the initial connection fixed first, LOL)???

Many thanks in advance








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