Yes, the Dell c600 uses TI 1420 Cardbus which may be part of the
problem. Nevertheless, I took back the Linksys WPC54G and exchanged
for a D-Link DWL-G650 which works flawlessly. No more problems.
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:07:18 GMT, "TheMachineRNC"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Might want to check and see what PCMCIA controller the Dell has. If it's
>Texas Instruments, you might want to try the beta driver on the download
>page. Also... XP or 2K? XP in my experience is much better with
>wirelesss.
>
>"Trooper2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed).. .
>> I purchased a Linksys WPC54G wireless NIC today to use with my Dell
>> Latitude C600 notebook running Windows 2000. When I first installed
>> as per the instructions, the Linksys network adapter worked fine. But
>> after I updated the drivers to the latest ones available on the
>> Linksys site the card no longer works.
>>
>> Oddly enough, my system detects the card properly and recognizes it
>> every time it is added and removed however each time I try to activate
>> the network settings using Linksys WLAN Monitor it keeps saying
>> "Failed to change device configuration".
>>
>> Am finally out of patience and wondered if anyone else has experienced
>> this issue that can help me to resolve.
>>
>> Lastly, after uninstalling the Linksys monitor utility and manually
>> deleting the \program files\linksys folder from the machine, after
>> reinstalling it, it seemed to have somehow kept settings that
>> should've been deleted. Not sure how deeply rooted in the registry
>> this is, but would like to know how to COMPLETELY remove all Linksys
>> references from the windows 2000 registry to again install the WPC54G
>> from scratch.
>>
>> Please help.
>> Thanks.
>
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