Asus WL-107g PC Card Code 10

[Cyberdog]

Hi

I have a Amitech 4802 Laptop (AMD 64) running XP (Service Pack 1) with built in LAN and have bought a Asus WL-107g PC Card Wireless LAN. The Card is detected fine, but when drivers are installed it says the card cannot start and a Code 10.

I have tried uninstalling my built in LAN, disabling it and have looked for newer drivers. Nothing helps.

Does anyone have any tips (I saw the previous Code 10 thread, but could not find anything useful)

Cheers

Kenneth

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Cyberdog.

Code 10 means there is not enough resources free to enable the device to start.

This can be because the bios is not fully acpi compliant or that you simply have run out of space.

It could also be that the drivers require a particular configuration that xp cannot allow.

Was the laptop supplied with xp?

[Cyberdog]

Hi Thanks for the welcome

The machine has plenty of space. I disabled printer port in BIOS then did a complete recovery but have the same problem. So I can't see where the resource problem should be. Perhaps the card only uses a specific address or something. Card is XP compliant (XP specific drivers)

The machine is brand new AMD Athlon 64 based and originally supplied with XP Home Sp1.

Any tips?

Update: Tried the card in a HP Pavillion zx5042ea running XP Home with built in wlan, Lan and modem and the card worked a charm. Can't seem to get it to work in my machine though

Tried disabling internal lan, modem and printer port on my machine, then reinstalled card with no result.

Help..
Kenneth

[hudsonsmith]

If you open the resources tab for the card, does it show a conflict?

You could also try updating the drivers for your cardbus controller.

[Cyberdog]

If you open the resources tab for the card, does it show a conflict?

You could also try updating the drivers for your cardbus controller.

No resources as the card is not available. I have now taken the Mini PCI WLAN card from the earlier mentioned HP Pavillion and mounted in my machine and that also works fine. Windows detects and installes it and it functions without a glitch.

I can't undrestand what the problem might be..

I will look for cardbus controller drivers, but I think I have the latest version.

Kenneth

[hudsonsmith]

On the resources tab, have you tried unchecking the box for "use automatic settings" and trying some of the other configurations in the "Setting based on:" pull down? Also, in device manager, what does it say under the computer heading? It should have some variant of ACPI.

[shardlowj]

I have a similar problem with the same Asus wl-107g pcmcia card.

My card is not recognised at all by the "found new hardware" wizard on insertion.

If I force an install via device manager and select the location for the driver, it instals the card but with the error "Device Cannot Start (Code 10).

I've also loaded the latest cardbus drivers for my laptop (Medion).

I have been able to try out the Asus card in an IBM thinkpad and it was recognised, installed, and working in minutes, so it's certainly a problem with the Medion/ENE CB1410 Cardbus Controller mix.

Not sure what to try next.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards
John.

[hudsonsmith]

Welcome to Windrivers John. We need to know the specific Medion model you have, as well as what version of Windows and service pack level.

[driver1]

Windows XP Home 2002 Service Pack 1

Medion 6488
Pentium 4 2.6Ghz
512Mb RAM

I've also been doing a little more research and have found an article on Microsofts KB concerning an update to mf.sys.

I'm not sure if the Asus wl-107g counts as a multi function card though, so I'm not sure if the MS KB article applies. In any event the link on the KB only takes you to a contact page for Microsoft and not the driver itself.

I've pasted the XP Event Viewer error for the Asus card below:-

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Pcmcia
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10
Date: 07/06/2004
Time: 22:36:35
User: N/A
Computer: CYBERMAXX
Description:
The description for Event ID ( 10 ) in Source ( Pcmcia ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: \Device\Pcmcia0.
Data:
0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 5a 00 ......Z.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 06 c0 .......À
0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 ....

I hope the above helps

Regards
John.

[shardlowj]

Managed to dig out an old laptop drive and installed it in my Medion laptop. Conducted a fresh installation of XP Home 2002 SP1.

Plugged in the Asus card, and it just locks up XP, can't even do a Ctrl Alt Del.

I'm going to return the Asus card to the supplier for a refund.

I'll have to conduct some more research into other wireless cards before my next purchase ;-(

Regards
John.