Cisco 350 client pcmcia card problem

[c....@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk]

Hi.

I'm trying to get a Cisco Aironet 350 pcmcia client card working on my laptop
but as soon as i plug it into a slot (with no other pcmcia cards plugged in) it
just simply crashes the laptop - every single time :(

I have a Dell Latitude CPi 300XT with WinXP running on it.

My brothers tried the card in his pc which is running Win95 , not sure what the
laptop is he has (it's different to mine) but it does exactly the same thing.

The card works ok as he's tried it in a friends pc at his works - no problems.

I can't even get as far as installing any drivers as the blue screen crash pops
up within seconds of either running windows or plugging the card in after
windows has booted up.

Any ideas ?

Regards ... Clive

[Halfton]

Did the card work before XP
was XP a fresh install or Upgrade from 9x/NT/2k
could be
Bad socket, does another card work in your machine
Bad Registry/OS/Driver load, uninstall/cleanout all drivers/registry entrys
and try PnP again or last resort reinstall OS from scratch, even an old bios
can screw up resource assignment, update it prior to OS reload

I've seen several Dell "oem Compal" laptop sockets fail and this is a prime
indicator although it usually happens "more pronounced" with Cardbus Pccard
Nic's not ISA/PCIC

hth
Joe

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[c....@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk]

Hi Joe.

Thanks for the reply !

>Did the card work before XP

yes and it still does (on other pc's).

>was XP a fresh install or Upgrade from 9x/NT/2k

It's a fresh install.

>could be
>Bad socket, does another card work in your machine

Yes ALL/ANY other cards (lan or otherwise) work in either/both pcmcia sockets.

>Bad Registry/OS/Driver load, uninstall/cleanout all drivers/registry entrys
>and try PnP again or last resort reinstall OS from scratch, even an old bios
>can screw up resource assignment, update it prior to OS reload

It's the latest bios update on my laptop (late this year).

>I've seen several Dell "oem Compal" laptop sockets fail and this is a prime
>indicator although it usually happens "more pronounced" with Cardbus Pccard
>Nic's not ISA/PCIC

mmmmm but the card works in some pc's but not in my dell and my brothers laptop
(not sure what make his laptop is but it's not a dell).

Clive

[Halfton]

if the Cisco card worked before XP on this machine, its got to be a
driver or major resource conflict with XP

IOW, XP address' hardware differently than previous OS or the Cisco
drivers in use are not compatible

check the M$ KB for pcmcia, pccard, cisco, reboot, restart etc
check with Cisco support for XP drivers and any fix's

hth
Joe

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[Ken Anderson]

Win XP Pro's driver for aironet 350 pmcmia cards doesn't work, at least
not in the configuration I am using(WEP on, Open Authentication, No EAP
or LEAP). I had to install the cisco driver (against XP's better
judgement) to get the card to function.

Now, it works, but XP says it's not working, since apparently the cisco
driver doesn't have the right hooks for the o/s.

I'm waiting for a better driver from Cisco.

Ken

[Halfton]

I haven't tried them yet but the release notes for the ACUv415015.exe date:
10/30/01 says it's XP ready
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-win
look through the release notes on the NDIS drivers also

hth
Joe

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