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[Yorick]

So I just moved into a new apartment and I've been trying to leech my landlord's wireless, which is obviously working now as I'm posing this message. That said, I am having a problem. I never ran wireless simply because I never had to, but now being on the third floor while my landlord is on the first, it's become necessary.

I'm running a custom rig that I built close to two years ago, and last September or so I upgraded it to Windows 7. It works marvelously except for one thing. Whenever I try to install a Wireless Adapter, it won't work. The drivers will install fine, but when they try to synch up with the adapter itself, nothing happens. So I tried 3 different adapters. An SMC card, then a Cisco/Linksys card, and finally a Netgear card, and had the same problem with all of them.

I booted up my computer on the old XP Install, which worked with the newest adapter (Netgear) instantly, but Windows 7 still doesn't seem to want to put 2 and 2 together. Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening, or what I can do about it? Preferably short of reformatting.

Thanks!

 

[Eejit]

Tried updating drivers for the cards? You might need to for Windows 7 support.

 

[Raziaar]

Steal your landlord's adapter.

 

[Schall]

Steal your landlord's adapter.

Only fix.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Win7 has been a bitch with wireless for my laptop too. I just reinstalled XP. Don't have to worry anymore.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Works perfectly fine since I upgraded.

 

[Yorick]

Yeah when I booted it up in XP it worked fine.

I heard on some internets that it was because of it being the x64 version of 7 that it wouldn't work. Alternatively it was because it was only the Premium edition. But now I'm running x86 Ultimate and it's working beautifully.

 

[VirusType2]

I bought Windows 7 and my old ass Motorola wireless would not install on Windows 7, and (with my new computer, would blue screen XP). This was when W7 was new, so I searched high and low to be sure to get a 'compatible' windows 7 wireless card. Ended up with one from Azio that everyone said worked with W7.

Well, the drivers installed, but I never got the adapter to work right. So I bought 2 different N routers and still couldn't get it to work.

Then, on a long shot, I put in some really old Belkin wireless G card I had never used, and Windows installed a driver for it and it worked.

Then, Windows 7 updated offered a driver update for it. I downloaded that, and my bars doubled.

I guess there are two things I'm suggesting: just get some mainstream card for best compatibility, and just let Windows install the driver and control it.

 

[Ridge]

I used an abit AirPace Wifi card. Drivers work fine on Vista or 7...