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"Andrew" <usenetMYSHOES@bizaveMYSHOES.com> wrote in message
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| In comp.sys.laptops * * Chas <dnafutz@aol.spam.com> wrote:
| : I just bought a U.S. Robotics USR5410, 802.11g PC Card. So far, it's
| : working great.
|
| : It has the best reception of any wireless PC Card I've used and it's
the
| : only one that I've been able to get to work on Win98SE TPs (240x &
T20).
|
| : The USR 802.11g Wireless Turbo Configuration Utility works OK in
win98SE
| : but when I tried installing the card in XP, it seems to conflict
with
| : the native XP wireless connection utility.
|
| Why does it conflict?  What do you mean?  What do you see in Device
| Manager?  Any yellow (!) next to the network device?  If the drivers
| aren't installed correctly, try to install them correctly.
|
| Here's what I've done:  if you have a yellow'ed device in drive
| driver, remove it.  Then do Control Panel -> Add New Hardware.  You
| should be prompted to install this device.  If you let it pick a
| device, try installing whatever device it picks.  If that still
| doesn't work, you may find that after Setup ran it uncompressed/copied
| some drivers a program directory for the card - try browsing to the
| .inf files you might find there.  Sometimes it is just a matter of
| installing/re-installing the drivers a few times to get it right, even
| in XP.
|
| Andrew

Thanks for the input. Conflict was the wrong choice of words. The card
has always worked great. I only want the card inserted in my laptop when
I use it at a Wi-Fi hotspot 2 -3 times a week.

What was happening was I had to switch between the XP Wireless
Connection Utility Tray Icon and the USR Tray Icon to get the card
switched on and configured each time I used it. I wanted to use the XP
Windows Zero Configuration Utility instead of the US Robotics program.
I've given up on WZC and disabled the service. Now it's only the USR
utility.

Chas.