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March 18, 2008 at 06:21 PM
jviscomi

Laptop no longer recognizing cardbus wireless adapter?!

by jviscomi . Updated 18 years, 3 months ago

Have an older Compaq Evo n800c laptop running WinXP Pro with a Belkin Wireless-G cardbus adapter. Was working fine, no changes, when the system stopped recognizing the adapter.

It shows up in the Device Manager as an unknown device, and while I can’t stop it before removing it (because it doesn’t show up in the “safely remove hardware” list), when I pull the card out the system plays the remove device sound. The Wireless-G card works fine in other laptops, so it’s not the card, and an old wireless-B card works intermittently in the laptop. I ran the Winsock fix for XP 1.2 and it didn’t help. Any ideas?

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