Wireless Network not found

"If the pc with the Linksys adapter isn't showing the adapter in Device Manager than that means it isn't installed and driver compatibility is the issue there. Download the driver to usb using wired connection to the router or from another machine with internet connection and then proceed to the machine with the linksys adapter and install it."

aem,

Thanks, I will follow that advice and let you know what happens.

Here's what happened:

I downloaded the driver to a thumbdrive and unzipped it to the new Win 7 PC. It automatically loaded to a folder "Linksys Driver". Within Linksys Driver, I saw a setup icon. Clicking Setup gave me a Linksys Welcome screen. It invited me to "Click here to start" (installing the Wireless-G adapter, I assume). Then, I get a message: " The Driver has already been installed. If you want to replace this driver, you must uninstall the old one."

Meanwhile, I looked for the new network again, thinking my effort to download and install the linksys driver might somehow have done the trick. It did not. When I try to force a connection to the new network through WAN Miniport, I get an "error 651". ("The modem (or other connecting device) has reported an error."

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dubina said:

See if Windows see's the adaptor in Device Manager, it may see it straight away and install a driver for it. If you see the adaptor in Device Manager you should be able to install the driver for it manually if Windows doesn't do it for you.

I removed, restarted, stopped and then replaced the adapter card. Restarted PC but had the same result as before.

re: does Windows see the adapter in device manager? Maybe. I'm not sure. Under "Network Adapters", I see Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection, which is probably the card below the Linksys card.

Under "Other devices" I see a (problematic) Network Controller. In "General", , Device Status indicates "The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28)"

I downloaded the best Linksys driver to a thumbdrive and put on the PC C Drive in a "Linksys" folder. The subdirectory is "Drivers". When I try to "Update Driver" in "General", Windows asks me to browse to the folder that contains the driver. I do that. When I click "Next", Windows tells me that "Windows could not find software for your device".

Meanwhile, the "Driver" folder under "Linksys" on the PC hard drive has a Setup file. When I click on it, I get the Linksys welcome screen with a "Click here to start" button. When I click there, I get the same old message: "The driver has already been installed. If you want to replace the driver, you must uninstall the old driver."

So on the one hand, "Windows cannot find software for your device"; on the other hand, I must uninstall the old driver. Furthermore, "The drivers for this device are not installed (Code 28)"

So I am confused. Any ideas at this point?

I should remind you of something that I posted earlier in this thread: that the adapter was installed and connecting to the network before I installed Windows 7.

Another question while I'm at it: I'm thinking of trying out Windows 8 beta. If I decide to do that, would the Win8 beta install (most likely) solve this connectivity problem automatically?