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Can't get USB wireless adapter to work in Windows 7
Hi everyone. This is my first post at the SevenForums.
I have had a windows 7 machine for about a year and I recently wanted to get a wireless adapter working on the machine. My machine is a Dell Studio XPS 8000 running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
The adapter I am using is a SMCWUSB-G Wireless USB 2.0 adapter.
I don't have any problems seeing the adapter in Device Manager and I have made sure the WLAN Autoconfig is started (see pics).
But when I go to the Network and Sharing center and click on "Manage wireless networks" it is not finding any networks to connect to. (see pic) It should be seeing about 10 (I checked on my netbook that has a working wifi connection.)
If I click on the wireless adapter in Network Connections and then click on "Diagnose this connection" it ends up telling me that "There might be a problem with the driver for the Wireless Network Connection adapter". But I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers from the manufacturers website and I get the same results.
I have read the forums here and tried a few things. I had AVG antivirus installed and I removed it. That didn't help. I have the ZoneAlarm firewall installed and disabled it. That also didn't help. I have not yet tried uninstalling ZoneAlarm to see if that helps. I booted the machine with a live linux usb OS and using that the adapter worked fine. I also tried a different adapter on the machine and got the same results. That tells me there isn't a problem with the adapter.
Can anybody suggest anything that might help me resolve this?