Wireless PCI card for Vista x64? - NOT NETGEAR!
07 January 2008, 10:29 AM
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Wireless PCI card for Vista x64? - NOT NETGEAR!
Can anyone recommend me a wireless PCI card that works well with Vista x64 Ultimate. I've given up with my Netgear WG311T - I've tried 3 versions of their driver and all cause Vista to lock up - even the latest one that Win Update installs (Atheros communications).
As cheap as possible please!
Thanks.
As cheap as possible please!
Thanks.
09 January 2008, 05:25 PM
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There seems to be a major conflict between the P35 chipset and the Atheros chipset in the Netgear card. I've tried my WG311T in about eight different motherboards and it works just fine in all of them. Except the two P35 ones: an IP35 and an Asus P5K-E. I'm fairly sure it's linked to ACPI, but you can't disable ACPI on the Abit board.
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09 January 2008, 05:51 PM
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You would really have hoped that this sort of thing would not happen in computers these days 
Netgear can be hit and miss in my experience, but so have all the other brands I have tried
My current Gigabit Netgear hub needs to be rebooted each and every morning after the PC is turned on. Otherwise it refuses to recognise the computer's NIC 
Clearly its going back, I'm just waiting a little while for other people to have complained bitterly to get a fix before I do so....I cannot be bothered to lead the charge with this one 
Netgear can be hit and miss in my experience, but so have all the other brands I have tried
My current Gigabit Netgear hub needs to be rebooted each and every morning after the PC is turned on. Otherwise it refuses to recognise the computer's NIC Clearly its going back, I'm just waiting a little while for other people to have complained bitterly to get a fix before I do so....I cannot be bothered to lead the charge with this one
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09 January 2008, 07:57 PM
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Have you got a WG311T working with a P35 motherboard? I'm actually serious, because I've not found anyone yet who has.
My other annoyance is the slow (or non-existent) speed with which Netgear issue drivers. For instance, with XP 64-bit they simply didn't bother for most of their cards.
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09 January 2008, 09:03 PM
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Have you got a WG311T working with a P35 motherboard? I'm actually serious, because I've not found anyone yet who has.
My other annoyance is the slow (or non-existent) speed with which Netgear issue drivers. For instance, with XP 64-bit they simply didn't bother for most of their cards.
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My other annoyance is the slow (or non-existent) speed with which Netgear issue drivers. For instance, with XP 64-bit they simply didn't bother for most of their cards.
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10 January 2008, 07:38 AM
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my email consists, that a, at pcw i recommend netgear, i have to reconsider,.
i used all drivers that are available on the site.
his damn reply was a full page of step by step instructions to download the same bloody driver and install it again..DUH
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It's out of the hands of NETGEAR because they do not write the drivers. Have you tried the latest generic Atheros drivers?
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