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how do delete network adapters in device mgr

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dfarrales

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the office i work at has a wireless network that i've been trying to join but no luck so far.

i just installed a wifi-g card by linksys in my lappy running xp pro. after the install, in device mgr, the icons for the wifi card all have exclamation points. when i click on any of them, the status says "cannot laod the device driver. driver may be corrupted or missing". i installed the drivers straight from the linksys cd.

then i noticed a bunch of other network adapter items installed that i don't have. the network guy there said that i may need to get rid of those b/c the lappy may be confused w/ all the other nework adapters installed. so, i try uninstalling them and they won't totally uninstall. they just become 'disabled' and have the red X over the icon. the one's listed are "direct parallel" and 5 different "WAN Miniports".

bwt, i'm using dell inspiron 7500.

anyone run into this before? how do i get rid of those totally? what do i do about the drivers?
 
here's my problem... previously i was using an ethernet pc card for my laptop. worked fine. then i bought a linksys wifi card to use at work. did the install but didn't work. looked at my device mgr and all network adapters on the list had exclamation points. they all have a device status of "windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. the driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39)".

i tried deleting the devices so i could just re-install, but it won't delete and gives me a msg similar to "delet failed. item may be needed to boot up".

i can't get on the net at all, even w/ the ethernet pc card. any ideas??????
 
I've got exactly the same problem, tried deleting the device drivers in 'safe mode' and get same message 'Failed to uninstall the device driver may be required to boot up the computer'.

No help, I know. Just wondering if you got any further?
 
These unwanted Network Devices may be leftovers from having AOL dialup software installed. You should be able to go to Device Manager, and find the exact driver files being loaded, then boot from a CD-bootable operating system, such as Knoppix, or Windows Pre-Install Environment. From there, delete the exact driver files being used (the ones found previously).
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