Linksys Card causing boot hangup

[rnmcd]

I just installed a Linksys Wireless-G card WPC54GS and it causes my laptop to hangup during the booting process....about 10 minutes.

 

If I take the card out of the laptop and reboot it only takes about 1 minutes to get to my desktop.

 

Any idea what could cause this?

 

The laptop seems to run fine once it gets fully booted with the Linksys card installed.

[Madmanmcp]

A slow boot could be several things. What did you use for wireless before this card, was it built into the motherboard or was it another external card? If it was builtin wireless did you disable it in CMOS and remove the drivers? If it was another card did you remove the drivers for it?

 

Next did you install the card and the drivers according to the instructions. Sometimes you need to load them a specific way for them to work correctly, the instructions will say to install the drivers BEFORE inserting the card.

 

And finally, sometimes the bootup time will increase because of the drivers needed...but 10 minutes seems a long time.

[rnmcd]

A slow boot could be several things. What did you use for wireless before this card, was it built into the motherboard or was it another external card? If it was builtin wireless did you disable it in CMOS and remove the drivers? If it was another card did you remove the drivers for it?

 

Next did you install the card and the drivers according to the instructions. Sometimes you need to load them a specific way for them to work correctly, the instructions will say to install the drivers BEFORE inserting the card.

 

And finally, sometimes the bootup time will increase because of the drivers needed...but 10 minutes seems a long time.

I used a U.S. Robotics wireless card prior to this and I uninstalled all of the drivers prior to installing the drivers for this. I do believe I installed this according to the instructions provided by Linksys.

 

Could it take that long for it to assign a DHCP address?

[TCH-JimE]

The cause of it hanging is not because it is trying to get a IP address.

 

This is normally a conflict elsewhere. I suggest you look at the device manager and see that there are no Red X or yellow ? which may be conflicting with it.

 

I also suggest you surf the linksys website and support area in case its a known issue with something else you have running.

 

JimE

[rnmcd]

The cause of it hanging is not because it is trying to get a IP address.

 

This is normally a conflict elsewhere. I suggest you look at the device manager and see that there are no Red X or yellow ? which may be conflicting with it.

 

I also suggest you surf the linksys website and support area in case its a known issue with something else you have running.

 

JimE

 

There aren't any yellow or red "X" in the device manager.

 

I have already called Linksys support 3 times and they said they have never heard of the problem. I will check out their support site.

[stevesh]

I had exactly the same problem with a different model Linksys card in the laptop of one of our salespeople. Never did figure out what it was, but a HD format and XP re-install fixed it, so I always assumed it was the drivers from the previous network card causing some kind of conflict, although I deleted what I could before installing the new one.

 

Steve