does it make any difference to the other machines whether the Dell Inspiron is turned on or not?
I've come across several cases in the past where the Dell wireless card fitted in some of these totally drowns out the signal for all other nearby equipment.
And are you sure you have the correct drivers installed on it? The fact you've got it dual booting with SuSE indicates you've reloaded it yourself, and generally the Dell website list multiple options for wifi drivers for different iterations of the same model. The only way to make sure you have the correct one is trial and error....
As to the Advent....only 96Mb RAM? You're lucky that runs at all with XP. Trying to get wireless to work on that would be hit and miss. What Advent model is it? I'd guess that its only got a -B capability, which would drag down the entire network, and probably is only capable of WEP not WPA
Give me the Advent model number, and if possible the manufacturers model number (usually a letter / number sequence on the bottom plate like A360 or A360+). Advent don't make these - they simply rebadge from other suppliers. I'd guess that an Advent of this age was made by FIC, but lets see.
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 3rd March 2013 at 16:18.