I hope someone can help with this.

I have an old HP laptop with a Linksys Wireless G network card in the PC card slot. It was working absolutely FINE two days ago. Yesterday, the card was working, but couldn't actually CONNECT to the network here.

Today, the DEVICE Manager says the card is disabled for some reason, and when I click on Enable Device, I get an hourglass icon and the computer locks up.

Any ideas on what's going on?And what has happened since then to your system? Cards don't usually just die.When the system locks up, I have to POWER down, as ctrl-alt-del doesn't work.

When I power up again, the card SHOWS up as disabled in Device Manager once more, but otherwise the system works fine.

And if I try to enable the card again, it locks up again.
Tried system restore?
Has anything been installed, deleted or updated prior to the problem happening?

Try uninstalling it and then rebooting for a driver reinstall on boot up.That's the funny thing; nothing's been changed at all. No changes between the time it was working fine and the time it couldn't connect to the network, and there were no changes between that time and now, when it says the card is disabled.

I just powered it up one day to find that it was having trouble connecting to the network, and the next day when I powered it up, the card had become disabled. It's just a very baffling error.Try uninstalling the software through Add/Remove, and remove the card. Reboot and reinstall software. Reboot and add card. Check to make sure network is named correctly (SSID) and check for competing networks from neighbors.I removed the hardware, and I removed the driver.

I then reinstalled both the card and the driver as per the proper instructions.

Now the card shows up as Enabled and "working correctly" in Device Manager, which is a step forward.

However, the card still won't connect to the network. All the network settings are correct, but the program associated with the card claims the card is "inactive" and that it can't create an "association" with the network.

 :-/Is your SSID correct? What operating system? Is it clean from virus/spyware/adware?Yep, SSID is correct. No spyware or viruses. And it's Windows 98, but it's been running on that before with no problems.

I'm not an advanced computer user, but I can spot and fix obvious problems, and this just has me baffled.What if you run Internet Connection Wizared?

Program Files/Internet Explorer/ Connection Manager/ inetwiz