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Windows 7 + Wireless Adapters = #$!@
durandal4532
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So I've just returned a Netgear wirless adapter after discovering the assholes don't support Windows 7 at all.
Now, I've got a linksys WUSB600N which has full Windows 7 support. And it doesn't fucking work. It goes through the process of installing right until it says says it's detected the adapter and is "Installing your network adapter". Then it hangs for 5 minutes and crashes with Error 211 "your network adapter may not be installed correctly". Fucking thanks.
So that's that. What're my options? Or should I just scrap the whole project and buy 100 feet of cabling that actually functions?
Now, I've got a linksys WUSB600N which has full Windows 7 support. And it doesn't fucking work. It goes through the process of installing right until it says says it's detected the adapter and is "Installing your network adapter". Then it hangs for 5 minutes and crashes with Error 211 "your network adapter may not be installed correctly". Fucking thanks.
So that's that. What're my options? Or should I just scrap the whole project and buy 100 feet of cabling that actually functions?
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As a matter of fact I think to get it working I just used Vista64 drivers (I have Win7 64).
I definitely need a new wireless adaptor though. This thing works but it was clearly designed for close-range routers, being a tiny usb WNIC and everything. I need something with better range.
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edit.. this is assuming you're just trying plug and play. If you're using actual Win7 drivers and it's not working then yeah that sucks. And also wired networking is a pain in the ass one time and then you're golden. Wireless can always be a pain in the ass. I go wired whenever possible just to avoid the hassles involved with wireless idiocy.
Linksys seems to have somehow... I don't even know. Even manually updating the drivers with ones I downloaded them gives the same long hang time followed by "an install problem".
How can it find the device, find the drivers, and then NOT INSTALL? Razzem frazzem grrr.
Christ, it won't even uninstall properly so I can try updating the drivers manually again. I hate these things so much. I really am thinking of just running 100 feet of cable downstairs.
Edit: Aaaaand the Linksys tech support lady informed me that no company has a wireless adapter available for Windows 7 64-bit.
Which seems like it would make all those "compatible with Windows 7!" stickers a fucking lie but what do I know?
Except the native drivers suck. 5-3000ms pings to the router, constant packet loss, the works. I've replaced the router with a Linksys with dd-wrt (twice now, one is a brand new WRT54GL) and plan on replacing the wireless card once I can reboot tonight. Picked this one up, apparently it works fine and has new Win7 drivers on the Edimax.us website:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315041
The Netgear piece of crap that we HAD at least worked, but required rebooting every 30-40 minutes or it would stop forwarding packets and randomly start dropping connections. For example, opening the PA forums would result in a ton of random pizza boxes as random images didn't open.
The DD-WRT ones seem to work great, except WOW connects for 5 seconds then gets 0-9000ms ping (either 0 or something ungodly high) and the game disconnects.
Kinda driving me nuts. 2wire also says my 5 meg cable connection is 400k, so... yeah. That's my afternoon project, heh.
I would at least try manually installing Vista64 drivers.
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Of course, because I can't uninstall the drivers I have currently I can't actually tell. Because who knows, maybe a clean install would work.
Do a manual install using the Vista driver, only first set the compatibility to Vista SP2 before running the installer. I've done this with 1 wireless adapter and several printers with great success.
I actually did the same to my 2Wire on Win 7 32 bit. It seemed to work. I just figure I'm screwed when it comes to 64-bit, as there's no 64-bit drivers as far as I can find (it's old).
Maybe try reinstalling Windows with the adapter plugged in during install?
My advice would be to never buy Netgear ...ever.
Yeah, mine is version 2.
And, no. No I will not be reinstalling windows in order to resolve a reasonably unimportant driver problem. That would be way more annoyance than it's worth.
I'll give that Vista SP2 install thing a go right now.
I guess I may as well try that card. This is such a fucking pain.
Make sure you get the new drivers off the website. When installing, I would install "drivers only."
If this still doesn't work, run the following commands in an Administrator Command Prompt:
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netsh winsock reset
Then reboot.
The annoying part is that there seems to be no way to uninstall these drivers. When I go into Device manager with the adapter plugged in, I can get the properties, look at what drivers are installed, and select uninstall. But it just hangs there indefinitely.
So for all I know, the reason some of these fixes aren't working is simply because I can't uninstall the freaking things in the first place.
Argh.
And it wont install drivers for anything else? Assuming you've tried anything new, like that newegg card or something...
Does it work to just manually find the drivers and take them out?
Also, is there any way to prevent Windows from automatically attempting to install drivers? It takes 15 minutes, prevents me from changing anything, and has never worked.
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