Yep - I tried re-seating it earlier on. XP knows it is there and what it is, drivers up to date, antennae connected. XP seems to know it is there and what it is, Device manager reports it as working but Network Connections shows it as disconnected.

Thanks

Alan

Go to Network Connections and right click on the wireless connection.  Is the wireless card disabled there?  If so, enable it.   Are you sure you are using the Fn F2 key combination correctly?  It is not instantaneous, in other word it may take  few seconds to turn on or off the radio, so that if you hit the Fn F2 key combination again it will reverse the last instruction you gave wit the Fn F2 key combination

Steve

Is the SSID on your router hidden?  Are there any other security settings enabled on the router?

Steve

Can you see any wireless networks (right click the wireless connection and select View available wireless networks).

Steve

Are you sure that the MiniPCI card is securely seated in the MiniPCI slot?

Steve

The wireless connection reports as "not connected" in network connections.

I think I did the FnF2 correctly. I've done it again now (just the once!) and no change....

Are you running any firewall software?  If so, disable it completely in case it has somehow become misconfigured. Have you tried uninstalling the device in Device Manager and then rebooting and reinstalling the drivers?   If you know of any other wireless network that you might have access to and can try to connect to that, it would help to determine if it is a faulty network adapter.

Steve 

Hmmm, I suppose it could be faulty, although, it's new. I'll see if I can get access to any other wireless network in the meantime, though...

Any other ideas in the meantime gratefully accepted - thanks for the help so far! :)

Alan