Installing WPA drivers in Win2K ?

Question

I've got a dual-boot Latitude D800 with a Truemobile 1300 miniPCI card on it. I am having trouble installing the wireless drivers/utility on Windows 2000 - the main goal being to enable WPA-PSK as the current setup does only WEP. The file is R81435.EXE (Euro version, but tried US and Japan versions as well with same result). At the beginning of install, setup will exit with a 'DevMgr 502' error and claim setup is unable to continue. A partial workaround is to install the drivers from the .inf files rather than setup.exe - result is that driver is updated OK, but I am still unable to get the wireless utility nor WPA installed. Wireless will otherwise work OK both on ad-hoc mode and against an Asus WL-500g access point on WEP but no WPA. If the same laptop with Linux, same drivers with ndiswrapper, and a third-party (i.e. Linux, non-dell) supplicant utility, WPA will work so I am pretty confident that the hardware and drivers are OK. This looks like an installer issue. Questions: - Has anyone had this problem? - What is the 'DevMgr 502' error? What should I do to correct it? - Any way to work around, and get the utility installed without the standard installer? Best regards, -Felipe

FelipeC · Answer

Ouch.

Tried removing the old drivers prior to installation of the new drivers. Did not work.

As a matter of fact, the old drivers will not install anymore (I get a "DevMgr" error with a different number this time), even if they were installed earlier this year. I have been left wireless-less :-)

So clearly something is wrong with this particular installer and the current state of my Windows 200 installation.

-Felipe

knivesout · Answer

I have the same problem with my D600, the newest driver (R81433) cannot find the device for which the driver is going to be upgraded.  I am on Win2K.

jwatt · Answer

If you're encountering a 'no compatible hardware found' error, see if the information in this thread helps. Jim

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