Abit AirSpace Wi-Fi on x64

I can't get a driver to work for my Abit AirSpace Wi-Fi card on Windows 7 x64 Beta 1.

Are there drivers that would work (or a generic?)

When I tried installing the Vista x64 drivers I got a BSOD with a ndis.sys error.

Altso looking for an answer

Got the exact same problem. Any solutions?

Very simple, this card is actually an atheros chipset card, simply uninstall any abit driver and install the driver for the card manually using Windows 7 default drivers under 'Network Adapters', pick either Atheros AR5006X or AR5006XS.

Thanks alot man!

that worked fine, thanks for the hint

that worked a treat... thank you very much....

Perfect! Thanks!

Hi i seem to have a little bit of an issue with my network adaptor
Since i made the dual boot vista and 7 when i initially boot aether vista or 7 device manager doesn't seem to see any installed network adaptors
To get device manager to reccognise that there is an installed network adaptor i have to make a reboot.... seems somewhat strainge that i have to do this...
do you think that its because i have the official driver for vista and use the Atheros AR5006X for 7? seems strainge that that that would be the case

i also noted with in vista i see my C: D: and H: drive bit within 7 i only see my C: and D: drive...

how i have this setup is from vista view is
drive 1 C: vista installed
drive 2 D: storage
Drive 2 H:windows 7 installed

How it shows in 7 is
drive 2 C: windows 7
drive 2 D: storage
drive 1 does not show : this is where vista is installed

in 7 drive H: shows as drive C:

I hope you understand this... it is a little confusing

Brink posted a solution about this on the Vista forums.

Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove - Vista Forums

I think that might solve your problem.

For the network adapter problem, I also had the same issue in Vista where the drivers wouldn't install for the Abit Airpace card.

To fix this in Vista, you can simply just point device manager to search for drivers in system32, but doing this in Windows 7 blue screened the PC for me, but when I rebooted it had recognised the device (but still wouldn't install drivers).

Manually searching for the drivers and selecting the Atheros drivers worked, though.

Hi Everlong18... yeah i just saw the post over on vista forums thanx

but as for the airpace card... it not that the drivers aren't loading... well i think its not....

lets say when i boot up and the icon show not connected to a network.... i don't think its because it cant load the driver but more to the fact that i cant find/detect the network adaptor... since my Ethernet ports don't load in 7 ether it shows no network devices what so ever
basically7 sees my computer as having no network devices at all until i make a restart...then device manager will see the network card at the next boot...and will load the correct assigned drivers

Well I think I might have had the same problem for mine. I tried loading the drivers, but the abit guru said there was no airpace card detected, so I tried the system32 folder (which works on Vista, but not 7), and it blue screened. After the restart device manager could find it, but the drivers still wouldn't load properly until I did the Atheros trick.

well i just done what potatohead advised in windows 7 32bit and well mate wat can i say that problem been bugging me all day as i kept getting blue screen etc etc just done it ur way just wen i was gonna giv in and it works a treat

potatohead if i could i would kiss u lol thank u mate appreciated loads for ur time and help!!

I know what ripbox is talking about and it doesn't have anything to do with the AirPace card so much as the fact that Windows will refuse to see any network card period. It does the same thing to me, but a restart doesn't fix the problem. I have to shut everything down and then cut power to the motherboard by switching off the PSU. Then turn everything back on. Only then will it recogonize the network adapters. It's annoying, but at least the adapters work. It seems like this might be a BIOS/hardware issue that Windows trips up on, possibly no workaround until Abit releases a patch.

glad its not just me then

Interesting thing I found out with my system. I have a drive for XP setup as well as one for 7 and I just switch the order of the boot sequence (less of pain to me than using dual booting utilities) in the bios. I did this upon a restart, thinking that XP wouldn't be affected by a completely separate OS on a completely different hard drive (in fact, the 7 drive is a SATA while the XP drive is PATA). So the method I used to solve the problem before with 7 not recognizing my network devices, by turning the entire system off at the PSU, was not performed this time due to my ignorance of any happenings that may occur in XP.

Turns out, XP did the exact same thing. All my network devices were unrecognizable. I had to shut down the entire system at the CPU and then boot into XP again for it to recognize the network adapters. This is definitely and issue with the motherboard I'm using. Come to think of it, I've actually had many problems with this board and Vista. It would literally hang at the pre-BIOS stage for nearly a minute or more before it would start properly. I thought the board was just faulty, but it seems Vista (possibly something to do with EFI emulation or something) was forcing the BIOS into a loop and would take forever to correct itself. After installing XP and using that exclusively, I didn't have a single problem with the board.

I think it'd be safe to say that it can be narrowed down to three problems, one the board needs a BIOS update in order to function properly, two Abit needs to look into what EFI emulation does to this board, and three MS may be able to correct it at their end by tweaking their EFI emulation for Vista and 7. I could be entirely wrong about the EFI thing, though, but I don't believe this board uses EFI at all. I'm pretty certain it's a problem with the BIOS in some way, however.

potatohead said:

Very simple, this card is actually an atheros chipset card, simply uninstall any abit driver and install the driver for the card manually using Windows 7 default drivers under 'Network Adapters', pick either Atheros AR5006X or AR5006XS.

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you rock PotatoHead! Worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!

seems this driver no longer works in RC 1 however i found that the Atheros List has now grown larger and was pretty simple to work out being 1 driver called pci wifi b/g or something similar.... maybe i will get round to double checking the actual driver i used when i next log in to 7 RC1

Unoffiical Airpace drivers.

Here is an unofficial driver I edited to work on Windows 7 x64. I used the Atheros drivers and edited the ini. Theses are test drivers and I cannot offer any real support but I hope they work for other people like it did on mine.
Driver version is v7.6.1.162.

Unoffical Abit Airpace Windows 7 driver.
Version v7.7.0.231
http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12160&stc=1&d=1243390729

turgo said:

Unoffical Abit Airpace Windows 7 driver.
Version v7.7.0.231

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Just used this to install my Airpace driver on Windows 7 RC and it works great. Just selected the folder when manually installing the drivers and it installed and works with no problems, thanks a lot

Repped.