Installation problems with Buffalo WLI-USB-G54

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From: il_cipo (il_cipo_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: 2 Jan 2005 03:24:16 -0800

Hello,

i am losing my mind trying to make work this device.
I just bought a WLI-USB-G54 and a WLI-CB-G54A card for my laptop. All I
need is to setup an ad-hoc connection between the two devices.

The PCMCIA is smoothly running on a ThinkPad T30 with XP pro SP2 while
the USB adapter is connected to a desktop Intel P4 3.2 Ghz with w2k
SP4. I did manage to make them working and connecting once (even dough
the SW to control them has very limited functions).
Anyway, this morning I reboot my desktop and I noticed that the USB
adapter was not working and was not connecting with the laptop.

In the desktop (w2k) I now have a "question mark" next to the wlan
device in the connection manager. The device doesn't work and the
system ask me the reinstall the unit. Here comes the HUGE problem. I
tried to manually delete the related .inf and some sys files to
recreate a blank system where to reinstall the device. Somehow when I
disconnect the USB device, reboot and reconnect it the system still
find some old settings or file ..... in any case I never managed to
reinstall the drivers. I did download the latest from
http://asia.buffalotech.com/download/index.php?c=hk
I am using the "WLI-USB-G54" from there.

One difference between the installation on the laptop and the one on
the desktop. In the laptop (under the property of the wlan device) the
manufacturer is set to be "MELCO" while on the USB device I never
manage to see that but only "Buffalo".

One other problem: the only time (the first) I did manage to make them
work (on the first fresh installation) the functions I had on the
properties of the USB devices were very limited to the ones I have on
the PCMCIA unit (WLI-CB-G54A). On the latter there is a huge list under
"wireless network connections properties" and "configure" the card and
finally under the "advanced" properties .... I get many parameters as
channel ID, SSID etc etc
On the USB adapter the only time it was working I had only one setting:
the network IP address. Nothing else.

Please, help me to make th USB device running under the w2k system and
create ad-hoc connection with the PCMCIA device.

I have also the setupapi.ini that I can post if needed.
Thank you
Cheers
CIPO

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