installed Win2k, installed the (still 1.0) driver off the website... settings as dumbed down as possible, i.e. no security, infrastructure, SSID is correct and in correct case, and this card simply will NOT set up a link with the customer's Netgear MR614V2 router which has the current 5.3 firmware from Netgear.
The Netgear router has absolutely no other problems talking to quite a variety of various and sundry adapter cards in other laptops.
As another test, we removed the GS adapter from the laptop and installed another brand new adapter, a Linksys WPC54G, this one without the "GS" speedbooster stuff. Before plugging it in, we removed the GS software, rebooted, installed the G software from the website, then plugged it in, all seeming to go correctly without errors. STILL no connect.
Amazing. We then took the G card and installed it into a completely different (older Dell) laptop at the site, along with the website-version driver, and it failed there as well. This Dell did have a Netgear adapter in it previously which ran just fine... so it would seem that there's some stupid and basic problem between these two items but I've been unable to find any reference to this or any related problem on the net.
The NG router is set for DHCP of course, access control turned off, and is handing out 192.168.0.2 through .20. I did see where someone's Linksys router won't route unless you're handing out .1.100 and up but this doesn't appear to apply here.
What am I missing? Is Linksys junk?