I need your guys help.
I just bought a sony pcwa-c100 wireless pcmcia from compusa and trying to connect it to a apple airport at home and at school.
The laptop is a pentium II 333 128mb ram with Windows XP professional.
Here is the problems I have incounters. I plug the nic in to the laptop and right off bat it detected and used the default windows xp drivers. Sounds good, but then it doens't find a network, the airport is setup to do dhcp and its the same setup at school. The school also do not use a password to access the network and has internet access. The school has wireless dell laptop with lucent wireless cards.
So both the lucent and the sony are made by orinoco. From that, we know they should work a like.
Well i can't get it connect to a network, the nic card (sony one) flashes the two green light every 10 seconds. The manual indicates the lan card works but unable to find a connection.
I tried then to use the sony xp drivers, no success, and then tried orinoco xp drivers, and still no connection.
The last attempt to get the card to work was taking the laptop and the nic to my work place at school. I plug the sony nic to the laptop and install the sony drivers. The nic has one light on (lights up on the link indicator) which shows that pcmcia works.
But still no connection to the network. Then i tried to use the lucent wireless nic on my laptop and still the same problem, two light flash once ever 10 seconds.
Any solutions,
thanks
dmak
p.s: the lucent card works in the school network.
I just bought a sony pcwa-c100 wireless pcmcia from compusa and trying to connect it to a apple airport at home and at school.
The laptop is a pentium II 333 128mb ram with Windows XP professional.
Here is the problems I have incounters. I plug the nic in to the laptop and right off bat it detected and used the default windows xp drivers. Sounds good, but then it doens't find a network, the airport is setup to do dhcp and its the same setup at school. The school also do not use a password to access the network and has internet access. The school has wireless dell laptop with lucent wireless cards.
So both the lucent and the sony are made by orinoco. From that, we know they should work a like.
Well i can't get it connect to a network, the nic card (sony one) flashes the two green light every 10 seconds. The manual indicates the lan card works but unable to find a connection.
I tried then to use the sony xp drivers, no success, and then tried orinoco xp drivers, and still no connection.
The last attempt to get the card to work was taking the laptop and the nic to my work place at school. I plug the sony nic to the laptop and install the sony drivers. The nic has one light on (lights up on the link indicator) which shows that pcmcia works.
But still no connection to the network. Then i tried to use the lucent wireless nic on my laptop and still the same problem, two light flash once ever 10 seconds.
Any solutions,
thanks
dmak
p.s: the lucent card works in the school network.
