On May 8, 8:01 pm, "EZ Allen" <eall...@satx.rr.com> wrote:


>Thanks for your help Steve. My new Toshiba laptop is working fine on
wireless, but my older Compaq laptop is still having problems
"finding/seeing" my wireless network. This is the strange part... I
download a patch from Belkin's webpage for my wireless card.
Initially, if
found the network and even connected to it. The next day, I powered
up my
Compaq and again, the same problem on not seeing the network. I've
pretty
much given up and will try taking it to one of the independent
computer
shops here in town to see if they can figure out what's going on...

>EZ


Sounds like Windows has some default startup file for that device and
the file is trashed, so it goes back to some damaged defaults after
rebooting. But I don't know what it might be. Or is the *stack*
specific to each network device? That's something that goes out on
ocasion in XP.

[Links to follow- see if my posting problem gets fixed]

What I suggested before is the *generally recommended approach* and I
took it as well, but don't remember if it worked - I keep several
adapters around and may have just put a different one on that notebook
when it gave me grief. Eventually I sold the notebook for one with
built-in wireless. I still have the card as a backup, but I now
consider it to be a flaky one. Whether that's a correct assesment or
not, don't know.

My Belkin is a F5D7010 - what's yours? Oh, and I do seem to remember
that I eventually found the original provided driver (on CD) to work
better or instead of the newer download one. So, contrary to
previous suggestion, try the original if you do a clean reinstall
again.

Oh, one more idea - what about windows restore? Got a restore point
from before your trip?

So, I'd go this route:

1) Restore point- if you got it, see if that works.

2) If not, try the stack cleanup tools. I'm sure somebody here could
tell us if this is appropriate or not here, but lacking further
advice, I'd just do it.

3) Uninstall new driver and reinstall old driver.

4) Get a cheap USB adapter for the notebook in question and forget
about it. Life is short, use the Belkin somewhere else or sell it !