Aerolan AL1611 Drivers

Clarifications

Have you tried updating the CardBus drivers for the laptop?

Silly question, you are running Windows 98SE?

How thoroughly have you cleaned off any old drivers before trying a new one?

With Windows 98, I find that I often have to manually clean out keys from the registry when I have a driver installation error.

Of course, editing the registry is not for the faint of heart and should be approached with deliberate caution along with making a back up copy before editing.

It would not hurt to also check the legacy DOS files with MSCONFIG just to make sure you don't have any strange device calls there.

I would also make sure that all network related patches from Microsoft are installed. This includes DUN 1.3 or 1.4.

Chas

Hi,

Got your message.

The comment you got from Asante about an incompatible chip may just be the key here.

What I suspect they are referring to is that they know that their card does not work with either the chip-set in your laptop or the CardBus controller chip.

The "fix" most likely would involve new firm-ware or even hardware on the AL1611 card. Once the incompatibility was discovered and verified, it was likely determined that the cost of the fix was too high versus any lost sales or customers. This would be even more likely if the product was discontinued as part of or before a buy-out or merger.

There are scads of good computer hardware that is thrown a way daily because there is no driver or other issues.

Your only option here, is to find a laptop that has the same basic hardware configuration of your Windows 2000 system that died.

Chas