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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Steve,
I just did the same thing with a Dell Latitude last week and after spending a couple of hours working with both a Netgear and Linksys WiFi PCMCIA card, then having a networking and computer guru friend of come over and he spent a couple of hours trying to get it to work... we gave up. The two just do not interface. Could be either too old a WiFi card or too old computer in my case.
We did get my Tivo WiFi talking with my server and able to transfer files, so its not the WiFi hub. As John said, I always start with a newly formatted hard drive when not sure of the OS condition. Personally I like W2000 more than XP but thats me. XP tries to do everything for you and is too damm automated for me, but I have been working with computers since 1973 and am an old fogey at times in this area.
JoeA
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