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| slinthi 2003-10-11, 10:45 am |
| After attending Denny's CWNA class I managed to get a Proxim Rangelan 7400 FHSS card to use as an ersatz spectrum analyzer. Card has a driver out there for Windows 2000 and appears to work fine with when I boot my laptop up to that OS. However, select Windows XP as the OS, install the card, and it blue screens. Anyone out there had any luck with running the card in a Windows XP environment. I’ve looked all over the place and can’t find an XP driver. Help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Steve | |
| isles1 2003-10-11, 12:31 pm |
| I had the same problem with XP. My card is still sitting idle on my desk since I too had no luck finding any drivers.
Anyone have better luck? | |
| meijin 2003-10-11, 1:12 pm |
| Yeah...no drivers for XP and it will not work at all with XP. | |
| slinthi 2003-10-11, 7:39 pm |
| Damn. Well I've got an old laptop (P-166). Guess I'll make it a dedicated RangeLan Spectrum Analyzer. Looks like there are drivers for Win95 & 98. Good use for that laptop. | |
| meijin 2003-10-11, 7:52 pm |
| Yeah...that or run a flavor of Linux on it.
I'm not a huge fan of XP, so the card works well for me.
After getting an iPAQ with AirMagnet software loaded on it, I don't need it much now.
Later! | |
| Hunter_D 2003-12-18, 10:29 am |
| I don't have one of these but i'm looking at getting one.
But the problem you are experiencing with XP might be the Wireless zero service in XP.
Click start> run> and type "services.msc"
then click ok. At the bottom of this list is the wireless zero services , disable this service and try it again. This should make XP treat wirless devices more like 2000.
Note: with this service disabled other wirless cards might not work correctly. | |
| isles1 2003-12-22, 10:41 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Hunter_D
I don't have one of these but i'm looking at getting one.
But the problem you are experiencing with XP might be the Wireless zero service in XP.
Click start> run> and type "services.msc"
then click ok. At the bottom of this list is the wireless zero services , disable this service and try it again. This should make XP treat wirless devices more like 2000.
Note: with this service disabled other wirless cards might not work correctly.
You think this would avoid the BSOD that people get at startup when running the card on XP. It seems to be the driver for the card that crashes the system.
I might give it a shot. Have you or anyone you know tried this successfully? | |
| Hunter_D 2003-12-22, 2:16 pm |
| I've ordered on and should have in a about a week. I do think it will stop the BSOD. I think is blue screen because XP thinks it a 2 way wireless card and tries to apply generic drivers to it useing the the wireless xero configureation. When i get it i'm gonna try it. Or i could be completely wrong and it will still blue screen, but i'll find out. | |
| slinthi 2003-12-22, 6:43 pm |
| Let us know how it goes. | |
| lucecomputers 2004-01-17, 4:24 am |
| Hello,
I am using the Rangelan2 7400 from proxim on my laptop running XP right now. You just use the win2k driver and disable the monitoring utility Proxim provides so it doesn't start on booting. I am not much of a windows admin, so I am not sure the exact reason for the blue screen kernel fault. Also the screen goes away to quickly to decipher. I am a CS programmer not a MIS. Some type of restricted memory page, I think though. Kind of reminds me of pointer arith in C or something. By the way, it took about 5 minutes to arrive at this solution, you just have to play with goofy windows.
But honestly, windows has the worst logging daemon in the history of OS's so I wouldn't expect one to even be able to interpret anything useful from this. What ever happened to the clear and consise logs to Syslog from GNU apps.. sad that windows does these cryptic things. |
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