Cannot Enable Wireless Adapter

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  1. Posts : 10
    Windows 7
       #1

    Cannot Enable Wireless Adapter


    THIS HAS BEEN SOLVED AS I GOT A NEW ADAPTER


    Hello everyone .

    First thing.
    I have integrated LAN in my PC which I dont use so I disabled it in BIOS.
    Than I installed the driver for my Belkin F5D7050.
    I go into the Adapter Settings and than it comes up with my adapter disabled so I click on Enable and than the box pops up and says Enabling than Enabled but still its Disabled as its gray. Sometimes the box freezes when Enabling. And yes I have clicked Refresh after I tried to enable.

    Anyone got clues, there was no problems when I was connecting with Vista.

    Thanks Guys
    Last edited by Sagotua; 31 Dec 2009 at 07:07.
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  2. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #2

    Hello Sagotua and welcome to the SevenForums. You might want to check this thread out.

    Kari
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  3. Posts : 10
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks Kari, However that posts is totally different to my problem, I cannot enable the wireless adapter and I cannot connect to internet if the wireless adapter is disabled.
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  4. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #4

    In my opinion it is not a totally different problem. Search this forum for Belkin and you find that Belkin Wireless Adapter, both USB and card, have some known compatibility issues with Windows 7.

    I'm sometimes using a Belkin Wireless USB adapter that has about the same chipset and drivers than your adapter. It don't work at all with Belkin drivers.

    KAri
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  5. Posts : 10
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    dont quite get it, so my USB adapter wont work with original Belkin drivers ?

    Does your USB adapter work ? If yes what drivers do you use.

    Thanks
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  6. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #6

    Sagotua said:
    dont quite get it, so my USB adapter wont work with original Belkin drivers ?

    Does your USB adapter work ? If yes what drivers do you use.

    Thanks
    Like I tried to tell you, Belkin USB adapters have known issues with Windows 7.

    Try this, as told on the thread I told you earlier:

    • disconnect Belkin USB
    • uninstall all Belkin drivers using Device Manager
    • uninstall Belkin software using Control Panel > Programs and Features
    • reboot your computer
    • reconnect Belkin USB
    • let Windows install the drivers

    The attached picture shows which driver I have after doing precisely as described above. The adapter works perfectly. Please don't feel confused, Belkin adapters are equipped with Marvell Yukon chipsets.

    A colleague of mine also told, that a Belkin driver 3xxx from this site should work even with series 4xxx and 5xxx adapters. I have not tried it, so I can not confirm.

    Kari

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  7. Posts : 10
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Thanks, but everytime i plug it into USB it just comes up with "windows could not install the hardware software " and when I go on choose manually and than click Network Adapters than Marvell it comes up with some random PCI adapters.


    Dont know what to do now
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  8. Posts : 17,545
    Windows 10 Pro x64 EN-GB
       #8

    Kari said:
    A colleague of mine also told, that a Belkin driver 3xxx from this site should work even with series 4xxx and 5xxx adapters. I have not tried it, so I can not confirm.
    Did you try that? Or maybe this could be something for you?

    Kari
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  9. Posts : 10
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Thanks Kari you are a Leg End lol
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  10. Posts : 1
    windows 7 64
       #10

    Just an FYI, I had my belkin running ok by initially running the setup.exe in "troubleshoot compatiblity mode" and choosing vista as stated above. I decided to play around with it and removed and but could not get it working again. It would install but I was not able to "enable" the adapter. After reading through these forums I uninstalled everything, rebooted and plugged in the adapter. Windows could not find the proper drivers. I then went to detect it manually and I selected "linksys/cisco usb adapter from the list because belkin was not listed. Installed those drivers and its working absolutely perfect.

    Thanks all for the posts!
    -Ron
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