Ok, I have an older wifi card and am trying to get it to work. I have downloaded the ful setup and originally the drivers wouldn't load upon installation but after much finagling it finally installed and I thought all was well; it was not. The program works fine but the network card is not being found. It isn't even showing up in Device Manager. This is the second network adapter I have tried and the first one did the same thing, so I don't know what is going on. Can anyone help me? My father-in-law is a pretty computer savy person but he can't figure it out either.
It is a Linksys WMP11. I do have plug'n'play permitted in my BIOS. It has not been in a Vista OS computer. I saw some other discussions about other Linksys equipment not working properly but it seems they were able to figure it out. The link for drivers they gave doesn't have my model number though. What I don't understand is that the program that Linksys uses, the wireless moniter installs (with some finagling) but the card itself does not appear. I didn't know hardware couldn't be recongnized by an OS.
Ok I uninstalled the hardware and set the folder for it to find the driver but it says that no driver is found. I know the driver is there because I looked to make sure, but it still won't find it. Is there any way I can just copy and paste a driver into the system file?
Could it be because I installed WIN7 64-bit? I'm thinking that is the only thing so I just downloaded the 32-bit version and going to see if that fixes it.
That was it. I loaded 32-bit and it worked fine. But I have another question: is there a reason that the network manager doesn't use WPA security? I can only set it up with WEP and that makes it so hard to give out a password if the network is all WEP.