My son's HN200W HP wireless access point quit working. It never worked
very good in the first place, with signal strength going from excellent to
no-signal and back every two minutes. At other times (very rare) it would
work o.k. He got it on ebay some time ago and cannot return it. The
gateway/router wired part works fine and has never been a problem A
spectrum analyzer shows a signal being emitted about 2.42 ghz, but the
device no longer picks up any traffic.
I opened it up and discovered that it contained what appears to be a
LINKSYS WPC11 wireless pcmcia card with a pair of connectors for the antenna
where the edge of the card would normally poke out of a notebook. It does
not have any markings on it, but when I plugged it into a Windows XP system,
a dialog box popped up a "new hardware found" and indicated it had found the
LINKSYS WPC11 pc card. Anybody got any idea on if replaceing that pcmcia
card with a notebook type might work? I found some at compgeeks for under
$40 includeing G band pcmcia cards. Might one of those "G" even work in a
HN200W in place of the "11B" type card??
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