TCP/IP fails after wireless card/driver install

[wirelessnube]

Here's my setup:
Inspiron 7000 laptop
Win98 2nd edition
D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+
3com 3C589D EtherLink III LAN PC Card

Here's what I do:
1. I have the 3com card already installed and running
2. I turn my machine off and remove the 3com card
3. I follow the directions and install the D-Link card

I reboot and suddenly I get crashes whenever I try and run a program that attempts to use TCP/IP eg. IE, Mozilla, SmartFTP...etc I even get a crash when I run "netstat -a" in a dos prompt. What's going on here?!

4. I then turn off my machine and remove the wireless card
5. I put the 3com card back in and restart the machine

At this point I still have the same problems.

what I've tried:
-I've tried rebooting with either card and the errors still occur
-I've tried releasing and renewing my settings under winipcfg
-I've tried removing all network components and reinstalling them. The moment I install the wireless card either alongside or by itself TCP/IP fails.

The only thing that gets me back to where I was once TCP starts failing is a registry restore. Anyone seen this before or know why this is happening or some tool to help diagnose this problem?

thanks

 

[WheeDoggy]

First thing I would do, usung the latest available D-Link driver, with the D-Link card in the PCI slot, is to re-install the driver.

If this does not work, uninstall D-Link driver, replace the 3COM card, and reload the driver for the 3COM card.

If then the 3COM card works, the new D-Link card is probably no good. Get an exchange on the card.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[wirelessnube]

Thanks for the input.

Well after much searching I found numerous other mentions of similar problems. I finally found the solution. Although my symptoms were different the cause was probably the same and the solution worked!

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1453

9.) Winsock corruption