Windows 7 Network connection problems

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Hi all,

I've just installed W.7, however I'm having no luck whatsoever connecting to the internet. I use a BT Home Hub wireless connection and my vista works fine with it - but windows 7 can't find the hub at all. When I click on network connections and search for the hub, the screen says 'it may take up to 90 seconds' but doesn't find anything at all. Can anyone help?
 
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Can you connect to any other wireless networks? You could try update the wireless card drivers on your pc. What kind of wireless card do you have?
 
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No it doesn't find any wireless connections at all - usually there's about 4 which are visible, but not one is showing up. The wireless card I have is an atheros AR5007UG wireless network adapter. I've just dowloaded the updated driver for it - but still no success - I have tried manually adding the connection, but it says windows wireless is not enabled. Don't know where to go from here....
 
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On some of the laptops here at work there is a switch on the side to actually disable the wireless radio...do you have a switch like that?
 
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No, there isn't a switch on this laptop for that - I have windows vista running alongside windows 7, and when I log onto vista there isn't an issue with finding network connections etc, but windows 7 is just oblivious!
 
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So you are dual booting then? Vista and Win7 on the same machine, or are they on different laptops? If you are dual booting, then I would definitely say its a driver issue.

I tried to look on their official site, but I couldn't find a spot to actually download drivers anywhere.

You could try this site:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...dows+7&usg=AFQjCNHHVOb-4XMI2SlwpHl48dDZRAv4Vg

Also, which version of Windows 7 do you have? 64 bit/32bit?
 
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Yes I'm dual booting from the same laptop - I created a seperate partition and installed windows 7 on that. It's 32 bit.

I'm going to have a play around with the driver(s) and see if anything works.

Thank you for your help so far
 
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Though I don't remember the procedure I used, the only way I can connect is using wep, which if I remember correctly is not how w7 wants to hook up. It seems setting up vista on a lappy was much easier and didn't require allot of fiddling. Probably a driver issue?
 
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