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Does anyone have experience w/ WiFi cards going bad? I’m having difficulties with my PC laptop (Windows XP) which I think are stemming form the Orinoco Mini PCI card (802.11b). The problem varies with different networks. At home the computer will see the network, but not connect to it. I have tested another laptop (802.11g external card) which works fine. At work the computer sees the network, but as soon as I open the Wireless Network dialogue showing the list of available networks Windoze begins freezing intermittently. Once I am finally able to enter the network key / password to connect everything is fine- good connection.

I have tried reinstalling the drivers & have updated to service pack 2 to no avail. I’m thinking of just buying an external 802.11g card & disabling the internal one, or does it sound like something else is causing this?