What network chip

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Is there a way to find out from in vista what network chip is on my wireless card? I know its a belkin, and I think its an F5D7000, but I'm not certain. Its just that I don't trust belkin's drivers one bit (Regular bluescreens on vista when it first came out), and I'm switching to the windows 7 RC instead, so ideally I'd like to just get the drivers straight from realtek. But I need to know what to dowload first.

Would it mention anywhere in the device manager or anything? I've had a look but can't see anything :(
 
Open your PC and look at it?

I'd rather not, since its in an annoying place and can't get into it easier, so I was just hoping there'd be a way to see from in windows somehow. And I'm not even too sure what the network card is, 95% sure its the Belkin F5D7000, but I had it all apart a few weeks ago, and it didn't actually say anything on it, just that it was version 6.
 
http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php?t7889.html

I installed Windows Vista 64bit RC2 recently and could not get this card to work. I tried many drivers, from the official Belkin drivers to other drivers I was told would work.

I eventually did this: I opened my computer and looked at the chip on the wireless card, which said "R2561T". The chip, if you don't already know, is a square, black piece protruding from the network card. There should be some manufacturer and model no. on it.

I Googled for "R2561T" and found out the manufacturer of the chip was Ralink. I went to the Ralink site and downloaded the drivers for the chip. The trick was that it was not the RT61+RT2500 drivers that I needed (even though I thought R2561T would fall into that category) but instead the RT61 drivers. The former ones would install but would Windows would say "This device could not start (Code 10)." The latter drivers worked. I installed them by going to Device Manager, as there was no simple way to install them.

Now the real problem is that not all of these wireless cards have the same chip, so what you need to do is identify the chip and start googling for drivers for that chip from there. If I'm not mistaken not all F5D7000 v6 cards have the Ralink chip. Older models use a Broadcom chip (so I heard). So you just need to find the right chip and the right drivers. I have my doubts Belkin will ever get around to releasing official drivers for 64bit environments.
 
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