Wireless Ethernet Problem

I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in ethernet adapter.
However, I disliked all the wires, so since a relative of
mine had an extra Linksys wireless card that plugs in the
side (PCMCIA ports, I believe they're called). Anyway, I cannot
seem to get that to work AT ALL! I'm sure the card is
fine, because it works fine on my relative's laptop. I
have the driver, but windows XP never says "new hardware
detected".

I suspect it might be some strange conflict that a laptop
cannot have 2 ethernet adapters. If thats the case, how
can i disable my wireless one? I tried going to control
panel > system > device manager and then deleting the built
in one, but it said something about it was essential to
boot-up. Though it did delete it, when I rebooted the
computer, it was back again!

Any ideas?

(Robert Jones) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in ethernet adapter.
> However, I disliked all the wires, so since a relative of
> mine had an extra Linksys wireless card that plugs in the
> side (PCMCIA ports, I believe they're called). Anyway, I cannot
> seem to get that to work AT ALL! I'm sure the card is
> fine, because it works fine on my relative's laptop. I
> have the driver, but windows XP never says "new hardware
> detected".
>
> I suspect it might be some strange conflict that a laptop
> cannot have 2 ethernet adapters. If thats the case, how
> can i disable my wireless one? I tried going to control
> panel > system > device manager and then deleting the built
> in one, but it said something about it was essential to
> boot-up. Though it did delete it, when I rebooted the
> computer, it was back again!
>
> Any ideas?

There are two standards for those PCMCIA slots - "16-bit" and
"Cardbus" (or 32-bit). Check and see that you haven't put a Cardbus
card into a 16-bit slot....

Anyways, that's my two bits.... ;-)
Good Luck!
ECM

On 10 Nov 2003 07:54:23 -0800, (ECM) wrote:

> (Robert Jones) wrote in message news:<. com>...
>> I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in ethernet adapter.
>> However, I disliked all the wires, so since a relative of
>> mine had an extra Linksys wireless card that plugs in the
>> side (PCMCIA ports, I believe they're called). Anyway, I cannot
>> seem to get that to work AT ALL! I'm sure the card is
>> fine, because it works fine on my relative's laptop. I
>> have the driver, but windows XP never says "new hardware
>> detected".
>>
>> I suspect it might be some strange conflict that a laptop
>> cannot have 2 ethernet adapters. If thats the case, how
>> can i disable my wireless one? I tried going to control
>> panel > system > device manager and then deleting the built
>> in one, but it said something about it was essential to
>> boot-up. Though it did delete it, when I rebooted the
>> computer, it was back again!
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>There are two standards for those PCMCIA slots - "16-bit" and
>"Cardbus" (or 32-bit). Check and see that you haven't put a Cardbus
>card into a 16-bit slot....
>
>Anyways, that's my two bits.... ;-)
>Good Luck!
>ECM
Not that I know, I just think I remember my wireless PCMCIA network
adaptor was a 16 bit. But I HAD to go to CONTROL PANEL and uninstall
the previous device and all it's drivers...worked well in Win2K, would
expect the same in XP...
( switched from Belkin to Linksys ethernet adaptor on notebook
PCMCIA)
HTH.

My laptop is fairly new, so I'm pretty sure the slots are 32-bit
cardbus, however, the wireless adapter card is old. If the card is
16-bit, will it work on a 32-bit cardbus?

(ECM) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> (Robert Jones) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> > I have a Toshiba laptop with a built-in ethernet adapter.
> > However, I disliked all the wires, so since a relative of
> > mine had an extra Linksys wireless card that plugs in the
> > side (PCMCIA ports, I believe they're called). Anyway, I cannot
> > seem to get that to work AT ALL! I'm sure the card is
> > fine, because it works fine on my relative's laptop. I
> > have the driver, but windows XP never says "new hardware
> > detected".
> >
> > I suspect it might be some strange conflict that a laptop
> > cannot have 2 ethernet adapters. If thats the case, how
> > can i disable my wireless one? I tried going to control
> > panel > system > device manager and then deleting the built
> > in one, but it said something about it was essential to
> > boot-up. Though it did delete it, when I rebooted the
> > computer, it was back again!
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> There are two standards for those PCMCIA slots - "16-bit" and
> "Cardbus" (or 32-bit). Check and see that you haven't put a Cardbus
> card into a 16-bit slot....
>
> Anyways, that's my two bits.... ;-)
> Good Luck!
> ECM