[X4U] Re: airport wireless - just double checking

[Timothy Luoma]

On Feb 22, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Mark Gibson wrote:

> If the PC is running Win 98 or earlier you are at the mercy of the PC 
> software that came with the wireless card.

true but I've seen these work without any more problems than the 
average PC user is likely to find.

> Win 2000 and XP have built in drivers that do work though.

Sometimes.

Generally speaking, IME, you're better off using the software that 
comes with the card (Linksys at least) than with Microsoft's "Zero 
Config" stuff.

I've had a Linksys card with a Linksys router that kept repeatedly 
popping up:

	"Network is unsecure, do you want to join anyway?"
	no [YES]

and I'd choose YES  and it would pop the same bloody panel back up.  
This would happen infinity-1 times when all of a sudden it would decide 
to work.  And this was XP.

I'm so glad not to be dealing with that crap anymore.

TjL