Straightforward? XP SP2 has a much better and improved native interface for wireless cards. With the pre SP2 way, there was so much headache that I would disable windows native control and use the card's client utility to configure it. I still use the client utility on my personal system, but for all the other machines that I fix, I upgrade to SP2 (if not SP2 already) and let windows control the wifi. Much easier for both me and the other person involved.
