Wireless PCI Card

[DavidDownes]

I've not long bought a Netgear WG311 54mbps 802.11g Wireless PCI Card for a computer with XP. But once it's programmes have been put on, it needs to reboot. I do that but as it loads up, it asks me for a password which I never put in originally. The only way I get back into the computer is by loading a fresh copy of XP back on it. On it's box it says it's Vista ready. So I thought that it was compatability problems. So I tried downloading later versions of the programmes for XP but the same thing happens with them. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? On E-Buyer from who I bought it from says that it's requirements are XP. But why the problems?

[mattie]

Just to clarify, are you saying that when the PC reboots, you are being asked for a logon password.

[DavidDownes]

Yeah. And I've not put one in at all.

[fo3nix]

What 'programmes' is it installing? You should only have a driver, then let XP sort out the wireless stuff with its own tools.

I assume it's XP SP2?

Go here, choose the version you have,
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/WG311.asp

then just get the highest version number for driver/firmware. Install that, then restart, and see what happens.

[DavidDownes]

Yeah the version of XP is SP2, and it is the drivers that I have installed. I've downloaded them all apart from the earliest version of the driver.

[HWKE]

Before I go any further, if it doesn't work, you don't need to reinstall XP. You need to press the F8 key when booting up and select Safe Mode without Networking and just uninstall, or do a system restore.

Install the Netgear driver. Do NOT use the installation utility, just browse to the driver folder and install from there. Do not reboot.
Run the small program from the link below (just in case).

h1.ripway.com/scrim_reaper/XP_FixLogon.exe

Switch off (not reboot)
Install the card
Switch on.

[Ricky martin]

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WAN networking

[Ricky martin]

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