Wireless Access

Hi

Well I have exhausted every method I can think of to get this card to work under XP, I think its about time Compaq/HP got off the backsides and started to provide support for their customer base. The last update for this card was in 2000, Does this mean they consider 18 month old hardware obselete. Well I am off to buy a new card and wont be spending another penny on compaq or HP hardware until they begin to support their customer base.

XP has been around long enough that they could have produced a driver by now.

Jon

IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING STEPS EXACTLY WINDOWS XP CAN CRASH AND CAUSE YOU TO RELOAD WINDOWS XP. BACKUP ALL DATA BEFORE PERFORMING THIS OR ANY OTHER INSTALL. THIS IS A WORK AROUND FOR THE WL200 TO WORK IN XP. DO NOT RUN THE SETUP FOR THIS SOFTPAQ ONLY LOAD THE DRIVER FROM THE SETUP DIRECTORY After inserting card when XP boots and detects new hardware do NOT let XP install software automatically. select don't search I will choose the driver to install. select you want to install a network card select have disk (point to the setup folder where you put wl200 and netcw2k.inf file) install driver disregarding all the XP complaints about the driver. latest wl200 driver link below
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After driver is installed download SP19982 for a version of the Intel management software for laptops which will run in XP on the desktops. Run setup from this softpaq to install management software that will work with wl200 card in XP. Note see attachment for instructions to move downloaded file from download computer to diskettes to new computer with wl200 and XP on. This file is 3.2mb when downloaded <>
Run setup once software is on XP unit with wl200 card installed. It will say no network wireless card detcted that is fine just continue setup. After complete and after restart utility will be on start bar. After it does a scan for access points it will work.