I am getting a bit frustrated with this problem and hope somebody can
provide an answer. I have a desktop with a PCMCIA PCI adapter. I am
trying to use an Orinoco silver PC card to access a wireless access
point. The problem is that when I insert the card, Windows recognizes
the card as a "Generic Memory Card" not as the Orinoco card that it
should. Everywhere I read says Windows will automatically recognize the
card. I have even tried installing drivers and that doesn't work. I'm
running XP SP2. The card works in my laptop. Any ideas?

<mikecsm@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am getting a bit frustrated with this problem and hope somebody can
> provide an answer. I have a desktop with a PCMCIA PCI adapter. I am
> trying to use an Orinoco silver PC card to access a wireless access
> point. The problem is that when I insert the card, Windows recognizes
> the card as a "Generic Memory Card" not as the Orinoco card that it
> should. Everywhere I read says Windows will automatically recognize the
> card. I have even tried installing drivers and that doesn't work. I'm
> running XP SP2. The card works in my laptop. Any ideas?
>
It is not what you think it is? Windows XP is very good at determining what
kind of card you just inserted into the computer.
Jim