Setting up a WaveLan Card on Win2k: What to Do When All Else Fails
First, a brief history: I've got a laptop running Win2k. I attempted to install a WaveLan Silver. It got recognized as the old WaveLan IEEE (a different card, and not compatible). The usual proceedure of removing the old driver and installing the new one didn't work. At all. For several months. Here is the solution.
Latest Information
From Stephen Gutknecht: July 20, 2001. I installed the Orinoco Silver card on two Windows 2000 systems. One is a IBM ThinkPad T20 laptop, the other is a dual-processor desktop Windows 2000 system I have, using a SwapBox Classic X2 ISA to PCMCIA adapter. I used Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 systems.
I had ZERO problems! This was plug and play in both cases. I did not have to do ANY of the steps listed below. It is possible that latest drivers resolved this issue, and a fix was included to correct PCMCIA IRQ sharing in Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 and later.
My procedure was:
- Make sure your Windows 2000 system is on Service Pack 2 or later.
download latest driver from wavelan.com web site. http://www.wavelan.com/template.html?section=m52&envelope=90&action=folder unpack the files to your hard disk. As of June 20 2001 - Release 7.0.
- Insert the adapter into the PCMCIA slot. Windows 2000 will detect it and prompt for driver disk... point it to the location you unpacked the files.
- Ready to use! Mine worked right away. I recommend you update the firmware on your adapter, the firmware update program works great under Windows 2000.
e-mail me at Stephen@RoundSparrow.com if you need help. Otherwise use the following information as reference, but be aware it may not be needed with current software releases.
Basic Instructions
The instructions in this section were kindly provided by Angel Hernandez of AgereSystems. They are probably correct in most situations, however read the whole page before you get started.
If you haven't already, download the latest driver set from the www.orinocowireless.com web site. The name of the most current driver file is WLW2K64.exe
1. Right click on Client Manager and click on 'Exit'
2. Go into Add/Remove Programs and uninstall any ORiNOCO/WAVELAN software on the computer
3. Go into Device Manager and uninstall the PC Card and the PCMCIA Adapter.
4. Shut the computer down and remove the PC Card and the PCMCIA Adapter.
5. Start the computer up. Perform a search on the hard drive for *luc48*.* and delete any files it finds.
6. Perform a second search for *wvlan*.* and delete any files found.
7. Go into the Registry Editor. Click on 'Edit' then 'Find' and type in orinoco
8. The program will search the registry and will stop and hilight an item that meets the criteria. Right click on this item and delete it.
9. Press the 'F3' key to continue the search. Every time it stops, delete the hilighted item.
10. Once it gives you the 'Finished Searching Registry' message, in the left hand window, scroll to the top and to the left and click My computer
11. Repeat steps 7-10 but this time search for luc48
12. Once that search is done, perform a third search for wavelan
13. Once that is done, perform a 4th search for wvlan
14. Once the wvlan search is done, reboot the computer.
15. Shut the computer down and install just the Adapter card.
16. Boot the computer and let it install the adapter.
17. Restart the computer.
18. Run the WLW2K64.exe file and have it unpack to the desktop (it should unpack 3-4 folders)
19. Insert the PC Card.
20a. If it detects and installs a WAVELAN/IEEE card, let it install then go into device manager and update the drivers.
20b. If it asks for the drivers, point it to the drivers directory you unpacked to the desktop.
21. : some of the keys that the instructions said to delete were locked. Upon attempting to delete them, regedit would give me an error and refuse to do it. First I thought this was because the key was being kept open by a driver or some such thing. Booting into safe mode with all PCMCIA drivers and all of that removed didn't help. So at last the solution:
You need to use the old (hard-core) registry editor, regedt32.exe. It can delete the keys that regedit.exe bitches about; you need to change the permissions on the obstinate keys to full control for group Everyone. Full control for Administrator is for some reason not enough. Once you've done with the registry butchery you should be able to complete the rest of the steps without problem.
Guide by ChoongNg, Fri Mar 11 2001, except for the part written by AH. And yes, Win2k can be a RPITA
