pcmcia port

[moonbounce]

Anyone know why my laptop does't recognize my pcmcia port? My laptop is an old Toshiba Tecra 8100 running Windows xp pro with SP 3, my wifi adapter is a Dlink AirPlus Xtreme G.

Today I found that my PCMCIA adapter was for Windows 98 and that I needed to go into system/hardware/device manager and uninstall my two pcmcia ports. After uninstalling them I shut the computer off inserted my pcmcia card, started the computer up and the card was recognized. At this point I was able to connect to the web, everything was working fine until I shut the computer off and restarted it. After restarting the computer the wifi icon wouldn't popup. I have been unable to get hooked up to the web since the first time. I have gone over all of my previous step but no luck.

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[KB0VWG]

Is the driver still there in Device manager

After you turn your pc back on is the driver still there in Device manager? Have you done any updates recently and did this ever happen before the updates?

You might need an updated driver for the card. You might be able to do a system restore back when everything was working fine and see if that helps.

Michael
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[moonbounce]

Yes the drivers are still in the device manager. I deleted the program this morning and started from scratch. Now after installing the drivers and shutting the computer off rebooting and letting the program add the software it won't go to the last step which is where I click "Finished". So I have a Dlink icon on the desktop and in the systems tray, the systems tray has an "X" thru the icon and I can't get it to run, If I click on the icon in the desktop nothing happens.

Second problem that seems to also involved is, when I start the computer up after beibg turned off, I get this message "new hardware found" but it is for the printer. I don't have a printer attached to the computer? At one time there was but I haven't had it hook up in a long time, so nothing has changed there even though the computer thinks I just pluggedone in?

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