Unable to install Netgear WG511- Laptop freezes

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I have been using WG511 the last year on 2 different laptops without any
greater problem. I am using XP with SP2 but I just go for 802.11b and WEP
since I experienced disconnecting when using 802.11g in combination with
WPA. Does it work if you use WEP?
K.

"Muammar Arida" <marida1@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> I spent hours trying to install Netgear WG511 54 MB wireless adapter
> card on my laptop. After I install the driver and when I instert the card,
> my laptop freezes and I have to power it down. I followed the netgear
> support person advice by unistalling Netgear and manually deleting the
> driver and removing the netgear driver refrences from windows xp registry
> then reinstalled the netgear software. I tried that several times but that
> didn't help and the computer would crash everytime. My Windows XP
> otherwise works fine and I am using my older Linksys 802.11b wireless card
> which installed and worked smoothly.
> The strange thing about this problem, is that when I initially had
> the card it worked fine until I downloaded an updated driver from Netgear
> website to support WPA. A few days ago, I formated my hard drive and
> installed clean Windows XP and SP2 but I am still not able to install the
> driver for the card.
> This really have been one of the most frustrating computer problems
> I've ever had to deal with. Shall I just quit and get a different brand
> card or it's an XP problem and can be fixed?
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