Inspiron 1100 and True Mobile 1150 lock up when card inserted

Question

I have a Insprion 1100 with and TrueMobile 1150 wireless internet card. When I put the wireless card into the computer the power light come on and it looks like card is beginning to work, but after a couple sections the light stops flashing and the computer locks up.  You're no table to move the mouse or do anything on the computer.  However, if you eject the wireless card the computer unfreezes and everything is fine, the mouse pointer jumps from where it was to a new place if you were trying to move the mouse. Any ideas as to what is going on?

accurate81 · Answer

is it possible to get your hands on a friends wireless card? this way we can see if its a a faulty card or a faulty slot. try that first

accurate81 · Answer

try going into device manager and uninstalling the drivers for the slot and then downloading the most recent drivers from the dell website.

whop45 · Answer

I have already tried a seperate wireless card and it does not work diagonstics say the pcmcia port is working correctly.

whop45 · Answer

all of the device drivers are current.  I think there is a conflict with someother software.

accurate81 · Answer

the drivers may be corrupted, try reinstalling them fresh n clean.

GreyMack · Answer

Is it a hot swap issue? Does it work if the card is inserted when the computer is off and then booted? GM

whop45 · Answer

I have updated the drivers several times, downloaded them from dell. even took off the client manager software for the wireless card.  tried to take it off using windows but it gave me a error. so i used the disk to unistall, still finding hints of it here and there. It is not a hot swap issue, when the card is plugged in at startup the computer freezes as it boots.

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