wireless networking card problems

[LLBeanie]

I am having problems loading my daughters 802.11g wireless networking card on her 1 year old Toshiba Satellite notebook. I loaded the belkin router onto my hubby's PC, my son's laptop had the linksys card already installed and worked immediately. The laptop seemed to recognize the card at first and began loading the softwear to run it. Eventually the softwear just "hung" and the laptop had to be rebooted. Now the laptop does not recognize the card at all, I cannot install or uninstall without the computer "hang".... I called Belkin tech support, they tell me I cannot run this "cardbus" networking card in the laptop because it has a PCMCIA slot. Drove 75 miles to nearest Bestbuy to buy a different card for her and lo' and behold they are all CARDBUS! Geek squad at BB said the cardbus works in PCMCIA (?????) I thought if anyone could talk me through this mess, somebody here could. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA

 

[JackMDS]

Cardbus, PCMCIA does not matter. What can matter is if the Laptop has 16bit or 32bit slots. A 32bit card will not work in a 16bit slot.

If it is a year old laptop, it is probably 32bit.

You can not get rid of the current drivers because you probably already have a ?Ghost? installation using the drivers in the Device manger

Boot the computer without the card get to the Device manger and uninstall the Ghost (. (if you do not know how to get there type the term Device Manager to Windows Native Help. One of the topics that will come will be Using Device Manager).

Boot again without the card and your computer will be clean. If Belkin?s support saying it would not work let them take back the card. These cards are rather inexpensive these days get another one (Not Belkin).

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