Cannot Enable Wireless Adapter

[Sagotua]

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

 

[Kari]

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

Kari

 

[Sagotua]

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.

 

[Kari]

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

 

[Sagotua]

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

 

[Kari]

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

 

[Sagotua]

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 (d)

 

[Kari]

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

 

[Sagotua]

Thanks Kari you are a Leg End lol

 

[ron7]

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

 

[Kari]

Ron, thanks for info. I did not know Belkin works with Linksys drivers.

Kari