Hi. I missed the beginning of this thread, but are you sure that the HF (high frequency) part of your WLAN card is enabled and that the HF part of the card is not damaged? If the HF part is not enabled then the driver is namely able to detect the card without problems, but the card itself is not able to send and receive data. On some notebooks you can enable the HF part by keystrokes, on others by software. Regards, Andreas