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Posted Windows Desktop Fixes, WiFi Wireless Networking on Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
In recent months new NetGear RangeMax and Linksys SRX wireless adapters have been configured to require that respective manufacturer’s wireless management utility to be installed with the drivers. This is a problem because both managment tools cause errors when running on a Windows XP PC with Service Pack 2 installed. There are even several reviews of the RangeMax PCI adapter on Amazon
The fix…
Simple. First, don’t uninstall the NetGear or Linksys software. That will probably remove the drivers for the card too. Instead, disable the NetGear or Linksys configuration software by pulling them from the Programs menu’s Startup folder and the registry startup items (Open regedit > then HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/ > and delete any references to the software). Then just follow the steps in this Microsoft Knowledge Base article to enable the Wireless Zero Config. (WZC) service: “Error Message in Wireless Network Setup Wizard…“. That’s it, no reboot required, the Windows WZC should pop up a message about detected networks in a few seconds.
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