Ralink Wireless card

Hey Guys

I have a problem with my Ralink wireless card. windows "says" its fine but it doesn't enable (on windows 7)

It might be a driver problem i'm not sure...

I have the latest driver for it too its a Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless Card chipset is 2561/RT61

if you know of any drivers that will work with windows 7 please post here and a link to the download so others like myself can fix this problem once and for all

Cheers all

Gamer1238

Gamer1238 said:

Hey Guys

I have a problem with my Ralink wireless card. windows "says" its fine but it doesn't enable (on windows 7)

It might be a driver problem i'm not sure...

I have the latest driver for it too its a Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless Card chipset is 2561/RT61

if you know of any drivers that will work with windows 7 please post here and a link to the download so others like myself can fix this problem once and for all

Cheers all

Gamer1238

Hey gamer

is the driver working in device manager ( it should be listed in networking and not have a yellow triangle on it)

What model does it say the ralink is in the device manager?

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

Hey Guys

I have a problem with my Ralink wireless card. windows "says" its fine but it doesn't enable (on windows 7)

It might be a driver problem i'm not sure...

I have the latest driver for it too its a Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless Card chipset is 2561/RT61

if you know of any drivers that will work with windows 7 please post here and a link to the download so others like myself can fix this problem once and for all

Cheers all

Gamer1238

Hey gamer

is the driver working in device manager ( it should be listed in networking and not have a yellow triangle on it)

What model does it say the ralink is in the device manager?

yeah the driver is working device manager says its fine

Model is RT61 turbo wireless lan (hope thats right)

date of driver is 3.0.1.0

Gamer1238 said:

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

Hey Guys

I have a problem with my Ralink wireless card. windows "says" its fine but it doesn't enable (on windows 7)

It might be a driver problem i'm not sure...

I have the latest driver for it too its a Ralink RT61 Turbo Wireless Card chipset is 2561/RT61

if you know of any drivers that will work with windows 7 please post here and a link to the download so others like myself can fix this problem once and for all

Cheers all

Gamer1238

Hey gamer

is the driver working in device manager ( it should be listed in networking and not have a yellow triangle on it)

What model does it say the ralink is in the device manager?

yeah the driver is working device manager says its fine

Model is RT61 turbo wireless lan (hope thats right)

date of driver is 3.0.1.0

What do you mean by doesn't enable? tell us about your networking setup too

zigzag3143 said:

Gamer1238 said:

zigzag3143 said:

Hey gamer

is the driver working in device manager ( it should be listed in networking and not have a yellow triangle on it)

What model does it say the ralink is in the device manager?

yeah the driver is working device manager says its fine

Model is RT61 turbo wireless lan (hope thats right)

date of driver is 3.0.1.0

What do you mean by doesn't enable? tell us about your networking setup too

well i also have a Wire LAN cable plugged in. When i go to network and sharing center then go to changes adapter setting to enable it its grey for disconnected...
Now when i double click it to enable it it goes enabling then enabled but then still the icon is grey

hope that helps

Hey Guys got the wireless card to work i'll post or up the file i am using and i hope it helps someone else

here is the driver guys enjoy

Gamer1238 said:

here is the driver guys enjoy

Although this thread is marked problem solved, I wonder, as a mid-80 year-old non-techie, if I could take it a little further. The Windows 7 upgrade advisor tells me that I should save an upgraded driver for my RT 61 turbo wireless card and install it after installing Windows 7 (after upgrading from Vista). I cannot find anything on the Ralink Technology web site which helps me but I came across this thread which seems to mirror my problem.

Accordingly, I downloaded from the link Gamer 1238 kindly supplied and saved it. Am I right in thinking that I can now install Windows 7, then open and install the driver from the from the saved file and all will be well? Or can I install the driver now before replacing my Vista with Windows 7?

Gamer1238 said:

Hi Tom what i'd not install the file and just upgrade from Vista to Windows 7.... Now I haven't got the upgrade editon myself but I can still help you :)...

So here we go...

Now your doing the Upgrade you DON'T want the upgrade to install updates just yet, there will be an option for you to say no for updating while windows 7 is upgrading, the reason is that there is a Driver for the wireless card we have and the update for it doesn't work for Windows 7.

I take it you would know how to do an upgrade???

If not let me know and I can search for a step by step guide to upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 for you...

Thanks for posting I'm always happy to help others out if needed thanks again for the post Littletom

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Gamer1238

Many thanks, Gamer. Yes I am clear on the upgrade process from Vista to Windows 7 and the new driver for the Ralink is the last thing before taking the plunge.

The advice from Windows is to find the new driver for the RT61 Wireless card, save it to a temp file, then after upgrading to W7, install the new driver. Are you saying that I should install the new driver now, before upgrading to W7? Or will the current driver work in the new OS?