Greetings. I've spent quite a few days on this one and I'm afraid I'll have to do a complete reinstall of Windows XP which I wish to avoid. Maximum points awarded to whomever can help me figure this out without an XP reinstall :P I've searched Google, Google Groups and dug down deep in the Experts-Exchange search and Q&As trying everything I've found to no avail. Basically no matter what PC Card I insert into my notebook they show up as MTD-0002 in device manager and don't work. I know this believe this is a common problem with my PCMCIA host adapter which is listed as a Texas Instruments PCI-1410. Check out these other, unsolved threads:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Notebooks_Wireless/Q_21269288.html and
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.traum-projekt.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D39997&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpci-1410%2Bmtd-0002%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D and
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_20410393.htmlRead my story of trying to get a linksys pc card working to see all the things I've tried to get it working:
Basically every time I try to install my Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card Model No. WPC11 ver.3 in Windows XP SP2 on a Compaq Presario Evo N1015v laptop XP pops up saying its found new hardware, but the hardware shown is PCMCIA MTD-0002. When I point it to the Linksys drivers, or try to update the driver in device manager, it tells me the hardware cannot be installed because the wizard cannot find the neccesary software. I've tried the uninstalling and reinstalling the v3 drivers and even the v4 drivers, disabling wireless zero configuration, disabling the device and reenabling, uninstalling the device, reinstalling the device, deleting oemX.inf files in %windir%\inf, adjusting registry permissions on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Enum | PCI and Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Enum and plain even just beating my head on a desk until I lost conciousness, but unfortunately that worked just as good as the other solutions.
Though one day it showed up in Device Manager as a WPC11 but the device could not start (code 10) error. Unfortunately I hadn't read
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Notebooks_Wireless/Q_21062798.html at the time so in my attempts to get it working I lost it again and it went back to MTD-0002. I still tried the solutions on that Q&A page though when I found it today to no avail. I just wish I knew how to get it back to a code 10 atleast! Just showing up as a WPC11 would be amazing! It seems that noone even knows what PCMCIA MTD-0002 means as far as the internet is concerned. This has happend with other cards as well.
AND I know the card is good-- I've slipped it into other laptops and it worked so nicely it made me cry. At the same time I've been able to use OTHER Linksys adapters on this notebook, specifically the WUSB11, succesfully.
Someone suggested I try reinstalling the drivers for the laptop, well I tried that out, wen't wild with it, downloaded every compaq driver I could find from Compaq and installed them, then grabbed this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272 and did a devcon -r remove * on the thing. Rebooted several times and let windows autodetect all the new hardware, and then even reinstalled the downloaded drivers for good measure.
Still.No.Dice. :(
Anyone have ANYTHING ELSE to try? The one thing that I'd LOVE to know is what the heck MTD-0002 means. Noone seems to know. I'll share points with anyone who helps explain that atleast.
Thanks!
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