> It has been my experience that laptops in particular seem to behave better with the OS that was originally installed on them at the factory. Drivers and often hardware items are optimized for the original OS and upgrading the OS many times does not provide drivers that work the way they are supposed to with either the OS or the hardware. Setup for XP may not have touched all or possibly any of the hardware drivers necessary to allow the card to function properly. So, I would check for updated drivers for your laptop's PCMCIA hardware, PCI bridge, or other bus related hardware. A BIOS upgrade may be in order as well. > > While the two OS's are similar, they are different and will interact with the laptop's hardware differently do not believe it is an issue with Smartbridges hardware or software. I think it is with the interaction of your laptop with XP when your laptop originally had Win 2K on it and was optimized for Win 2K.. > > Like I said, I may be all wet, but this follows my past experiences with trying to up grade the OS on a laptop and even some desktops. >
My Dell laptop has the designed for XP sitcker and came with a free upgrade to XP from ME (which is why it had Win 2K Pro on it :-). I have not checked for any driver updates for PCMCIA but this seems like a logical step. I'll take a look and see. I never sent in for the XP upgrade (upgrade YUCK!) I have the Microsoft action pack which included XP Pro so that's how I went to XP Pro. Thanks! Lewis ANNOUNCEMENT WISPCON IV - Can You Ping Me Now? Good! October 27-29, 2003 - Dallas Texas http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm WISP 101 Boot Camp September 29-October 3, 2003 - Chicago, Illinois http://www.part-15.org/train/wisp/101.html The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
