mlleangelique
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Hello. I'm Angelique and my Wifi hates me.
So, I've got a new (well, new old) laptop off eBay, which just has Windows XP and Norton Utilities installed. I also bought a Wifi card, installed the software and put it in, and it didn't work. When trying putting it in another laptop it didn't seem to light up or anything, so I concluded it was probably the card.
But the odd thing was: when I tried to load the software that came with it (a 3com utility thing) it briefly appeared, then disappeared and sat in the tray, and refused to reappear for more than a fraction of a second.
Anyway, having decided that was dud, I bought a USB Wifi thing, and after installing it, pretty much the same thing happened, but this one has a little glowing light which seems to show that at least it's responding. It doesn't seem to work, and the software that came with it (this time LM / "ZDWLan") appears for a brief second, then disappears, and claims to exist in Task Manager, but can't be retrieved.
Anyone know what's going on? It'd be nice not to have lots of wires sticking out of this machine...
So, I've got a new (well, new old) laptop off eBay, which just has Windows XP and Norton Utilities installed. I also bought a Wifi card, installed the software and put it in, and it didn't work. When trying putting it in another laptop it didn't seem to light up or anything, so I concluded it was probably the card.
But the odd thing was: when I tried to load the software that came with it (a 3com utility thing) it briefly appeared, then disappeared and sat in the tray, and refused to reappear for more than a fraction of a second.
Anyway, having decided that was dud, I bought a USB Wifi thing, and after installing it, pretty much the same thing happened, but this one has a little glowing light which seems to show that at least it's responding. It doesn't seem to work, and the software that came with it (this time LM / "ZDWLan") appears for a brief second, then disappears, and claims to exist in Task Manager, but can't be retrieved.
Anyone know what's going on? It'd be nice not to have lots of wires sticking out of this machine...