Greetings Tom's,
One of the last components I am adding to this old Gateway Solo 9100 Laptop is a PCMCIA wireless card, specifically a Cisco Aironet 802.11 a/b/g card (part number AIR-CB21AG-A-K9).
Now, I just received the card yesterday and I am stumped . I know my PCMCIA slots work (I have 2), as I have a modem that works on both of these slots without any problems. My system does meet at least the minimum requirements that Cisco needs (32-bit Cardbus slot - check! - 300 MHz processor - I have 400 MHz, I have WinXP SP3, they need 128 MB RAM, I have 384 MB, and a ton of HDD space).
I've checked everywhere, even in BIOS to see if there is some power management settings I could change - nothing.
What happens specifically is that I plug it in and the PCMCIA slot makes a "popping" sound in the speakers when something is inserted (happens with the modem too). The Cisco card does that too, but infrequently.
I checked Device Manager - nothing in there either.
I also tried the card in another laptop (Dell Inspiron 2200 running XP SP3) - works fine.
Any ideas???
Thanks!
VV5
One of the last components I am adding to this old Gateway Solo 9100 Laptop is a PCMCIA wireless card, specifically a Cisco Aironet 802.11 a/b/g card (part number AIR-CB21AG-A-K9).
Now, I just received the card yesterday and I am stumped . I know my PCMCIA slots work (I have 2), as I have a modem that works on both of these slots without any problems. My system does meet at least the minimum requirements that Cisco needs (32-bit Cardbus slot - check! - 300 MHz processor - I have 400 MHz, I have WinXP SP3, they need 128 MB RAM, I have 384 MB, and a ton of HDD space).
I've checked everywhere, even in BIOS to see if there is some power management settings I could change - nothing.
What happens specifically is that I plug it in and the PCMCIA slot makes a "popping" sound in the speakers when something is inserted (happens with the modem too). The Cisco card does that too, but infrequently.
I checked Device Manager - nothing in there either.
I also tried the card in another laptop (Dell Inspiron 2200 running XP SP3) - works fine.
Any ideas???
Thanks!
VV5