Wireless Access

Hi All,
When I install the WL200 card on WINDOWS XP, (NEC 2000XP), windows can't install the pcmcia to pci driver, it say the error 12 : connot install because not ressource for that.
next when I install the driver, the wl200 card is not found.
I try to upgrade the firmware, install newest drivers, but nothing work.
Please anybody help me !

Bad News. From what I can find out you cant use a WL200 with XP. There doesn't appear to be specific XP drivers available and the 2000 drivers don't work. I had my XP crash trying to get these cards to work. I gave up and run it under Win98 as an access point with WL300 software. It works great except when I try to use it with WEP from my laptop with a WL100 PCMCIA card.
Sorry this doesn't help much but at least you know others have tried.

Thanks Cambo.

I will install 200 and hope this is ok.

Same problem can't get wl200 pci card to work on XP. Where are the drivers COMPAQ - XP has been out over a year now !!!! Poor support

IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING STEPS EXACTLY WINDOWS XP CAN CRASH AND CAUSE YOU TO RELOAD WINDOWS XP. BACKUP ALL DATA BEFORE PERFORMING THIS OR ANY OTHER INSTALL. THIS IS A WORK AROUND FOR THE WL200 TO WORK IN XP. DO NOT RUN THE SETUP FOR THIS SOFTPAQ ONLY LOAD THE DRIVER FROM THE SETUP DIRECTORY After inserting card when XP boots and detects new hardware do NOT let XP install software automatically. select don't search I will choose the driver to install. select you want to install a network card select have disk (point to the setup folder where you put wl200 and netcw2k.inf file) install driver disregarding all the XP complaints about the driver. latest wl200 driver link below
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After driver is installed download SP19982 for a version of the Intel management software for laptops which will run in XP on the desktops. Run setup from this softpaq to install management software that will work with wl200 card in XP. Note see attachment for instructions to move downloaded file from download computer to diskettes to new computer with wl200 and XP on. This file is 3.2mb when downloaded <>
Run setup once software is on XP unit with wl200 card installed. It will say no network wireless card detcted that is fine just continue setup. After complete and after restart utility will be on start bar. After it does a scan for access points it will work.

I also saw this strange FAQ item about nVidia chipsets being 'unsupported'with WL200 and WL210 cards...
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ5606

I've found a better way than Sean's suggestion. At least it worked out better for me...

As Sean suggests, when XP detects the hardware, don't let it auto-install the drivers, instead choose from specified location.

I went ahead and started with the actual WL200 driver for W2k, after that was installed, I updated the firmware using the utility in the SoftPaq.

Here's the cool part...
Using Sean's suggestion, it seems that you lose the best part of Wireless in XP, the auto-config tools. Well, the WL200 is actually a WL100 soldered to a PCMCIA to PCI adapter. With my particular WL200, XP found the Cirrus PCMCIA fine, so no issues for me there. I decided to try out the WL100 driver from the N600c drivers page (my laptop is an N600c, so I already had that version of the WL100 xp driver handy)

When I asked XP to search the WL100 driver folder, it found 3 drivers:
WL100
PRISM2 PCCard
and ...
PRISM2 PCI Card (the good one)

I choose the PCI Card, and told XP to continue anyway (barked about not being a signed driver)

In less than a minute, it found my wireless network (ad-hoc at the moment)

Overall pretty sweet!