Dell 1150 Truemobile Wlan card 'cable unplugged' on W2K

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robertharvey@my-deja.com wrote:
> I have just fallen foul of what turned out to be an old chestnut. The
> card produces a network connection which reports that the cable is
> unplugged.
>
> I installed the client manager, which reported that the RF connection
> was fine, and the latest driver (which changed the layout of the
> dialogues wherein the WEP is entered, but was otherwise unsuccesful).
>
> A google search showed that this is a very well known problem indeed,
> but it appears that not everyone has come across the answer. The
> answer is, actually, in a Dell knowledge base article, but not one
> that Dell's search utility was keen to reproduce. You need a 3rd bit
> of software to take the place of the cable between the radio modem
> and the pseudo ethernet port - it was true, the "cable" was not
> connected.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6xfme tells you what's missing, but the method of
> finding it given is not right - you actually have to search the
> download page not the page given. http://tinyurl.com/46wa5 is what
> you want.
>
> I ended up with 3 things to install. R22540, R43778, R46012.
>
> The problem is with W2000 and the allocation of interrupts. The
> mini-pci slot is trying to use an interrupt that W2K can't allocate
> with a simple driver definition file.
>
> I'm glad to have sorted it, but There have been hundreds of people
> inconvenienced by this in the past. They have gone up blind alleys
> with patching both the driver and hardware to sort ot things that
> should not have gone wrong in the first place. It took me at least 5
> hours of hunting before I found it on the Dell web site, whose main
> points of entry assume you are using XP. I still don't understand why
> this code had to be downloaded separately.
> Anyway, I hope this helps other people.

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I just want to add that it takes it nearly 2 minutes to connect after
booting, but that's the sort of thing I've come to expect with windows
systems...