Does it work??
NO IT #$@%^& DOESN'T.
I've been at this for most of the day. Hardware and drivers appear to be installed ok. (Latest drivers downloaded and used.) Both 'puters report an "excellent" signal strength. Both wireless cards are set to the same parameters. Both show little bits of transmitted and received signal, so I think they are talking to each other. One bit bothers me - the power led on the PCMCIA 650+ is not alight, though the "link" led blinks every now and then, in keeping with the windows that report Tx'ed and Rx'ed data.
But I cannot, for the life of me, get even the basic network to work over wireless, let alone Internet Connection Sharing.
Went back to Ethernet, all ok. Back again to wireless, no change, it refuses to work. Stuff me, it's just radio waves instead of a wire (ie, WIRELESS!!!) It can't be that b l o o d y hard, but it is.
Right now I'm just about ready to chuck it in, send the kit back and tell Wintel, D-Link and the IT industry to stuff it. It's doubtful it's worth this kind of frustration.
Before I slash me wrists, anyone got any clues. Please.
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