losing the driver

[Melodi]

Hello:
I don't claim to be a hardware expert but I can usually muddle thru. I am dealing with a Dell Latitude CPX laptop that originally was a Windows 98 that I reformatted and upgraded to Windows XP. XP works great on it, it's a very nice laptop (as good as a dell can be anyway). However it keeps loosing the driver for the d-link usb wireless card. Everytime we restart it I have to reinstall the driver before it will connect. It is true that the usb plug is 2.0 but it's backward compatible for 1.1 which the usb port is. It's making me crazy.
Specs:
Latitude CPx H-series
Card Bus controller: Texas Instruments PCI 1225
PC Card connectors: Supports type 1 and type 2 cards in any combination, type 3 cards can only be used n th elower connector
Cards supported: 3.3-V and 5-V
PC Card connector size: 68 pin
PCMCIA: 16 bits
CardBuss: 32 bits
AGP bus: 66 mgh
PCI bus: 33 mgh

[Mobo]

Originally Posted by Melodi

Hello:
(as good as a dell can be anyway).

Never had a problem here with my dell yet...
Anyway what is the model of the wireless card ?

[Melodi]

It is a d-link dwl-g120 I'm doing this from memory but I believe that is the one otherwise it's dwl-122 I can check on their site which one it is

confirmed
DWL-G120

[Mobo]

Ok and what happens when you reboot ? Does the little light next to "link" show any activity ?

[Melodi]

yes it shows activity, says that it's 'connected' but get 'page cannot be displayed' and I can't ping. I scan for available networks, I actually connect it and the properties shows i'm sending and receiving packets, but I'm not. I uninstall the driver, reinstall it and like magic I can connect again.

[Mobo]

So its not a driver issue then. Its more like a configuration/network issue that needs to be looked at. Download the pdf installation for that product and you will see it describes the way to enable settings via its configuration utility.

[Melodi]

oh duh, yeah, good idea. thanks I will do that.