3Com wireless card installation problem

[phire]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post so apologies if I'm braking any etiquette.

I wonder if anyone can help me please.

I have a 3Com Wireless PC Card that I want to use with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100) to connect to my wireless router which is connected to my desktop (via cat5 cable).

The problems is that everytime I try to install the drivers for the 3com wireless PC card I get the following message


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The software you're installing for this hadware

3Com OfficeConnect Wireless 54 Mbps 11g PC Card

has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify compatibility with Windows XP.
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At this message I just click on continue anyway... but then after I insert the PC Card as instructed I get the following message:


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InsDrv2K

(Error Code : 105) Update Driver failed : ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
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then when I try to use the 3Com card to connect to the wireless router it says that the card is unplugged.

I borrowed a different laptop (Windows XP Pro SP2 a Toshiba) and it works perfectly well.

I contacted 3Com whom at first said there might be a fault with the PCMCIA card but later I found that it does work with the borrowed Toshiba. I downloaded the new drivers from 3Com, done the Windows Update, removed and re-installed but to no avail.

Can someone please help? 3Com haven't got a clue!

Thank you.

My laptop

Dell Inspiron 1100
Windows XP (home) SP2
256 Mb memory
30Gb Hard Disk with plenty of spare room.

[minorgeek]

I have a linksys card that has a similar problem. I ignore the directions, insert the card first, when windows asks for the cd I close that window and run the cd. A message pops up that it may not install properly, but it does. Also, if the device comes with a configuration utility, you need to associate with your router as the access point.

[phire]

Hello Minorgeek,

Thanks for your reply. I tried what you said and I still get the (Error Code : 105) Update Driver failed : ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error.

As I said before, when I tried installing on the borrowed Toshiba I didn't get that error and the card worked perfectly so I'm wondering whether my Dell has something corrupted or files missing or what?

Any more help appreciated.