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When you go to control panel and network connections, check to see if there
are other connections listed there.  Basically what I think your problem is,
is that the connection that says disabled is not the connection you are
using.  Most likely this is what happened.  When you upgraded your machine
to XP, Windows kept the old connection there.  But then you probably
reinstalled the card, which created a new connection.  So you are looking at
the old settings from Win2k which are not working, while there is another
connection that is working for WinXP.
Hope this helps,
Vinny

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"Donkey Agony" <nobody@foo.invalid> wrote in message
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> I have an IBM Thinkpad A22p (with Win2k) onto which I
> installed an Orinoco silver wireless card.  Worked great.
> I upgraded the machine to Windows XP.  Now it still has a
> wireless connection, and the Orinoco Client Manager in
> the system tray still shows signal strength, etc.
>
> But there is a problem -- of sorts.  Under Control Panel,
> Network Connections, it shows the wireless connection,
> but says it is "unavailable".  Why is this?  There is
> clearly a wireless connection, not just available, but
> working well!  But *that* wireless connection is only
> apparent in the Orinoco (Lucent) system tray software,
> not in XP native.  What is the disconnect, and how can
> I resolve it?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> /da
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