Windows7 64bit PCI Wireless

neilw

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Does anybody have any sugestions as to what to go for. There doesn't seem to be many drivers out there yet.

My Netgear WG311 won't work.
 
64 bit by any chance?

Last I heard from Netgears forums is that they would not support 64 bit because there was no demand for it - the 400 or so people who demanded it were ignored.

Small version: they couldn't be ****** to do 64 bit drivers. It also took them a monumental age to do Vista drivers, again, because there was no demand for it.

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M.
 
Yeh I'm running 64bit. Stupid Netgear....

Looking for someone running, 7 in 64bit with a working PCI wireless card.

What card do you have? So I can buy one and not get winged by the misses for having cat5 accross the house
 
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[TW]Fox;15134139 said:
I have a PCI Wireless card and Windows 7 64bit?

It's a Linksys Wireless-G PCI Adaptor.
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Yes I wasn't referring to all manufacturer's Fox - just Netgear.

There are loads out there that are 64 bit - just that Netgear sees it as a small market and won't make them.



M.
 
cheers fox. I have discovered several Linksys Wireless G cards in the Hardware cupboard at work :) I'll will try one out.
 
Linksys were crap as well with Vista. Their 64 bit drivers made my wireless performance appauling and my card worked better with the default Windows drivers.
 
I have had the WG111T working fine on vista 64 bit, and now have a WN111v2 working fine on win7 64bit, although admitedly they were both slightly problematic. There's plenty of help out there though, just requires a bit of googling.

By the looks of it you will need to manually put the driver on, and the driver you need is the atheros communications ar5004G. You will be able to bodge it somehow I'm sure :)
 
I've got a Belkin Wireless G F5D7000, running fine on windows 7 64bit

Its rather outdated though, I need a new one :)
 
coupe69 said:
I have had the WG111T working fine on vista 64 bit, and now have a WN111v2 working fine on win7 64bit, although admitedly they were both slightly problematic. There's plenty of help out there though, just requires a bit of googling.

By the looks of it you will need to manually put the driver on, and the driver you need is the atheros communications ar5004G. You will be able to bodge it somehow I'm sure :)
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nope, not for the netgear WG311, i tried this exact same thing a few days ago. no amount of .inf fiddling or somesuch would get the damn thing to work. in the end, I gave up and just bought a Belkin USB wireless adapter which worked right off the bat.
 
I've heard you can get the WG311v3 working using the 64bit Marvell drivers, as its Marvell who make the actual wireless chip on the card. Though that depends on what version of the card you have. Of course that means you cant use the Netgear wireless utility either (but that's not necessarily a bad thing)

Mikey
 
I cant get the netgear wg111v2 working for love nor money, been googling for answers but nothing yet... this is on the 32bit btw.
 
HaMMuS said:
I've heard you can get the WG311v3 working using the 64bit Marvell drivers, as its Marvell who make the actual wireless chip on the card.
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This is a good tip - when the hardware manufacturer's drivers don't work, find out who makes the actual chipset and download their generic driver. My Linksys wireless card wouldn't work under Vista x64 until I downloaded the generic Ralink drivers - now it works fine.
 
I have some unbranded one that I bought a few years back. Not even sure who makes the card, but the chipset is a Ralink RT2500.
Using the Vista drivers, and it works fine for me on Win 7 x64 RC (build 7100).
 
My piece of crap eBay dongle works in Vista and Win7 x64 bit natively (used to connect via Tethering 3G if Virgin goes down) - I didn't realise they needed drivers still!
 
ChrisGreen1993 said:
What! How can they say that there is no demand? Everyone I know is going 64-bit and there will be more people using 4 gig + RAM. 64-bit= the future
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Absolutely agree - everyone was mad on the forums. A few guys suggested work arounds as the WN311T (which was what I was trying at the time) was based on another chipset which had x64 drivers. Still couldn't get it work though and in the end I gave up and wired it up.

Netgear, I concluded, were a bunch of useless *****!

Bah tried to find the original posts but they've deleted them as well as the KB article saying that x64 is not used by most people and so wasn't supported. They do have a few x64 drivers there but god are they awfully slow to update them - especially as all they have to do is rebrand other companies drivers in most case.


M.
 
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