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Joined: Fri Jan 25 2008, 05:22AM
Location: Maryland, USA
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So here is the story:
I recently got a used computer free that hard a Broadcom 4301 wireless PC card in it. I decided to take that card out of old comp and swap it out for a one of the two mysterious TM1300 cards that came with that rig (a long and weird story about those too.) I'm running windows XP pro on that machine, and it has two hard wired NICs that work fine. Well once I had the card in windows couldn't find a driver that worked with it. No biggie right? Just open up everest, get the device name and pop on google to find a driver, right?
Er... here is where I went wrong.
I can't seem to find ANY drivers that work with windows XP.
I've found one page saying I need HPBroadcom.exe, however I can't find that file anywhere.
I know this wireless card is a bit old, but I'd love to get it working and have yet another machine with wireless access without having to buy another wifi card.
Edit: The exact model is a Linksys WMP11 v2.7, the chip is Broadcom BCM4301
Edit edit: finally got the right driver from
...but whenever I try to install the driver from the linksys program, I get that the WMP11 is not installed after it installs. When I try to install through windows, I get "This device cannot start" Error code 10 after it finds all the driver files and copies them over.
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Sorry about the double post, but I think this sort of calls for it.
Problem finally solved. That card is indeed one of the hardest to install properly.
Here was my final method: 1. Remove card and uninstall all previous drivers I tried for it. 2. Boot computer and install software from 3. Shut down 4. Firmly insert wireless card with computer off (for some reason the card tends to not make proper contact unless you get it in there just right, and this might be the reason behind code 10 errors when you try to install it) 5. Turn computer back on. 6. It should work now, enjoy your wireless networking. And the /b/ in me couldn't resist... 7. ???? 8. PROFIT!
The real doozey seemed to be getting the card in there just right so all the pins made contact and didn't give me a code 10 on installation.
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