First post, by ultimate386
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Hi all. I'm nearly done restoring a Dell Dimension 4600 Pentium 4 system and could use some help setting up wifi under Windows 2000 SP4. I have the system happily dual booting Puppy Linux and Windows 2k SP4. The wireless card is a Linksys WMP54gx4. The driver is no longer available directly from Linksys, but I found a Windows 2k/XP installation package online with a driver dated 11/10/2005. Running the setup program under Windows appears to work just fine. Device manager shows the card as working properly and the wireless network manager loads just fine. The problem is, it doesn't find any wifi networks! I have enabled the Win2k wireless network service and reinstalled the driver/software several times to no avail. The only clue I have so far is that, in the Windows event log, I have several dozen Error: "Wireless-G PCI Adapter with SRX400 : Has determined that the adapter is not functioning properly." messages. Now, over in Puppy Linux, I am using the exact same driver with ndiswrapper and it works perfectly! I'm posting from the system now, in fact.
Any thoughts on getting this working under Windows (I don't want to use XP, btw)? Thanks!
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