 Re: Dlink DWL-G650 (WinXP) works, but not at boot/startup (Code 10)
On Aug 22, 1:43*am, Ohaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently got a Dlink DWL-G50 wireless adapter for one of my older
> laptops (a Compaq, running WinXP Home SP2).
>
> The Dlink card is a "Rev. B5", and I downloaded the drivers from Dlink
> and got them installed.
>
> The Dlink installation installs Dlink's own utility for configuring the
> wireless, but I wanted to use the Windows Zero config to do that. *At
> first, when I enabled the "Let Windows manage" checkbox, I couldn't get
> the configuration to show WPA/WPA-PSK, but after a lot of fiddling, I've
> been able to get that. *I'm not 100% what finally got it working, but I
> think it may've been installing the WinXP WPA2 update.
>
> Anyway, things seem to work ok, but I notice that when I boot the
> machine up, and if the card is plugged in when I boot, it wasn't showing
> up, and in Device Manager, it showed that the card couldn't start, with
> a "Code 10".
>
> If I pop the card out, then back in again, XP detects it immediately,
> and the wireless works.
>
> If I leave the card out and boot the laptop, then plug the card in after
> XP has booted, it gets detected.
>
> I'm probably being a little picky, but I'd like to have the card work in
> the situation where the card is plugged in already when the laptop is
> booted, and was wondering if anyone has some ideas about what the
> problem might be, and how to fix it?
>
> The driver currently 2.2.4.1, dated 7/14/2004, and the file is
> ar511.sys, in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jim
D-Link adapters tend to install a Connection Manger software link in
the Start-up folder. If there is one, remove it from the Start-up
folder and Wireless Zero Configuration should work correctly.
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