Problem w/Wireless Adapter

[jagged30net]

I have a Linksys WPC11v4 wireless adapter that installed and worked fine for a few months and then quit working suddenly. And now when I try to boot the computer w/the card installed, it just hangs. I've been fighting this battle for weeks between Linksys, HP, and Microsoft. Has anyone else solved this problem? HP admits that there is an issue with my computer and the PCMCIA slot, which could be related to Microsoft's KB article 813707. This article mentions an updated driver for 'mf.sys version 5.1.2600.1167' available from Microsoft. Are they the only source for this driver? Getting the driver from Microsoft requires the product id and I don't have it w/me. I've already done some searching on Google, but haven't found it.

 

[bcastner]

There is an issue with some TI chipsets, but if yours worked "for months" than the issue is not the TI chipset, or an MS hotfix.

You might consider trying the 2-21-2004 driver upgrade for the device: ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/

But honestly the issue sounds like a pure hardware, and not software, problem. Try the card in a different PCMCIA slot, or replace the card. It is still under warranty:

https://ssl.linksys.com/rma1.asp

 

[jagged30net]

Thanks. I have the latest version of the driver for the adapter, which would not install correclty. And the card was replaced by Linksys last week because I didn't have another computer to try the card in (mine only has one slot the card will fit in). Guess I'll have to take the card and laptop to a service center.

 

[bcastner]

My daughter had a similar issue with a Dell Latitude notebook.

Somewhere, somehow, she had bumped the adapter sticking out the side of the case hard enough to damage the PCMCIA connector inside, and it was replaced as a warranty item.

In any case, it sounds like hardware from some source, likely the internal PCMCIA connector.