Follow Up Info : Win XP and ORiNOCO Wireless LAN Cards

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Just thought I'd let you guys know where I've got to with WinXP and the
ORiNOCO cards.

As you're aware from previous postings I was getting nowhere fast with
WinXP
and the ORiNOCO stuff so I went back to Win2k. I then got to thinking that
if I used the "Import/Export Settings" facility on WinXP then
that might
work so with a stable install of Win2k I went to export the network
settings
for WinXP...

....unfortunately the network setting themselves are not exported (or at
least it seems that way) - only the mapped drives etc.

So ... I tried updating my Win2k install on my laptop with XP. I considered
that I had nothing to lose and if it worked I would simply jot down all the
settings and transfer those into a clean install. Thankfully the update of
Win2k worked and XP was happily running untethered. I jotted down all the
settings from the network configuration dialogues and stripped down the
laptop again.

After installing XP from clean and entering *ALL* the same information back
into the dialogues then once again we have nothing ... however since an
upgrade from Win2k works then I think that might be the best recourse! Ah
well ... it only takes a couple of hours to reinstall an OS!

Phil