First post, by GriffintheFolf
I recently got a PCMCIA wireless card (Intellinet 524544) for my ThinkPad 600e, which has drivers based around the Realtek RTL8185L chipset. In theory, it should work with anything from Windows 98 to 7.
However, no matter what I tried, I could not get the card to work correctly. More specifically, in 99% of the time, the card does not even detect that there are any wireless networks to connect to. And even when it does, it effectively hangs the system for a minute or so before giving up on trying to connect.
I tried different drivers, different versions of Windows (Windows XP SP3), manually resetting… nothing served to help the fact that the card seems to be blind.
I figure I should also add that I got the card as new old stock, so any issues arising from potential hardware failure aren’t the issue here.
Am I missing something here, perhaps?
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