wireless USB card setup

20 Dec 2006 5:36 PM

nick5911

My dad has XP, and is trying to set it up for wireless. He got hold of a
wireless USB card, but in attempting to run the wizard, when it gets to the
part where it asks you to insert the card into a USB port so it can put the
system info in it, it says it is trying to load the info using drive A: which
is of course his floppy drive. The pull-down it offers to let you change the
drive letter only has A, nothing else. I had him install SP2, same result.
The drive letter comes up in the wizard before the USB card is inserted. He
put a floppy into the drive to see what it would do, and it loaded the info
onto the floppy, and was happy. Didn't help the USB card, of course. So how
can I get the wizard to redirect the card load to the USB port? I have ME at
home, so can only do so much via phone. Thanks!

20 Dec 2006 5:48 PM

David Hettel

Hmm It really sounds like he is running the wrong program. From your post
it's hard to tell just what you and your father are attempting to do. Are
you trying to install drivers for your wireless card, or write wireless info
to a USB thumb drive so you can transfer it to your Wireless router and or
other computers in the network?

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"nick5911" <nick5***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:694A1DE1-2258-410D-86A5-537F28EEC2FC@microsoft.com...
> My dad has XP, and is trying to set it up for wireless. He got hold of a
> wireless USB card, but in attempting to run the wizard, when it gets to
> the
> part where it asks you to insert the card into a USB port so it can put
> the
> system info in it, it says it is trying to load the info using drive A:
> which
> is of course his floppy drive. The pull-down it offers to let you change
> the
> drive letter only has A, nothing else. I had him install SP2, same result.
> The drive letter comes up in the wizard before the USB card is inserted.
> He
> put a floppy into the drive to see what it would do, and it loaded the
> info
> onto the floppy, and was happy. Didn't help the USB card, of course. So
> how
> can I get the wizard to redirect the card load to the USB port? I have ME
> at
> home, so can only do so much via phone. Thanks!

20 Dec 2006 8:46 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Hi
In most cases you do not run a wizard, you insert first the USB card in, the
computer would detect a new USB card and would ask for the Drivers, you
choose to install from a specific address and you maneuver or the menus to
place were the Drivers reside in.
Some devices want you to run first a program that installs the drivers and
or other related utility, in such a case, if the installation was done
correctly (may be a reboot is needed) the computer would detected the
drivers by itself.
However from your description it seems like you are running Windows utility
that can store the existing Wireless information on a USB Flash drive in
order to use it elsewhere. It is Not the proper thing to run for new
Wireless Card installation.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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"nick5911" <nick5***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:694A1DE1-2258-410D-86A5-537F28EEC2FC@microsoft.com...
> My dad has XP, and is trying to set it up for wireless. He got hold of a
> wireless USB card, but in attempting to run the wizard, when it gets to
> the
> part where it asks you to insert the card into a USB port so it can put
> the
> system info in it, it says it is trying to load the info using drive A:
> which
> is of course his floppy drive. The pull-down it offers to let you change
> the
> drive letter only has A, nothing else. I had him install SP2, same result.
> The drive letter comes up in the wizard before the USB card is inserted.
> He
> put a floppy into the drive to see what it would do, and it loaded the
> info
> onto the floppy, and was happy. Didn't help the USB card, of course. So
> how
> can I get the wizard to redirect the card load to the USB port? I have ME
> at
> home, so can only do so much via phone. Thanks!

21 Dec 2006 5:46 PM

nick5911

Hello again.

Apparently he had already loaded the drivers from CD. When I had him plug
the USB card in, it doesn't detect new hardware, but he said "it did do that
once". I'll probably have him try it again, or I may just wait until we go
visit at Christmas and do it myself. I know everyone makes fun of phone tech
support, but it's been harder to do than it probably should be.

Thanks again.

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"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote:

> Hi
> In most cases you do not run a wizard, you insert first the USB card in, the
> computer would detect a new USB card and would ask for the Drivers, you
> choose to install from a specific address and you maneuver or the menus to
> place were the Drivers reside in.
> Some devices want you to run first a program that installs the drivers and
> or other related utility, in such a case, if the installation was done
> correctly (may be a reboot is needed) the computer would detected the
> drivers by itself.
> However from your description it seems like you are running Windows utility
> that can store the existing Wireless information on a USB Flash drive in
> order to use it elsewhere. It is Not the proper thing to run for new
> Wireless Card installation.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "nick5911" <nick5***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:694A1DE1-2258-410D-86A5-537F28EEC2FC@microsoft.com...
> > My dad has XP, and is trying to set it up for wireless. He got hold of a
> > wireless USB card, but in attempting to run the wizard, when it gets to
> > the
> > part where it asks you to insert the card into a USB port so it can put
> > the
> > system info in it, it says it is trying to load the info using drive A:
> > which
> > is of course his floppy drive. The pull-down it offers to let you change
> > the
> > drive letter only has A, nothing else. I had him install SP2, same result.
> > The drive letter comes up in the wizard before the USB card is inserted.
> > He
> > put a floppy into the drive to see what it would do, and it loaded the
> > info
> > onto the floppy, and was happy. Didn't help the USB card, of course. So
> > how
> > can I get the wizard to redirect the card load to the USB port? I have ME
> > at
> > home, so can only do so much via phone. Thanks!
>
>
>