No WiFi hardware found

[aldol]

Hello,
I have Toshiba laptop L500 02H with Win 7 Ultimate. I'm trying to use the Easy WiFi Radar that is the XP app but I'm receiving a message " No WiFi hardware found". The XP mode is using the Shared Network adapter while in the Win 7 mode I have Realtek RTL819SE Wireless LAN 802 11n PCI-E NIC and MS Virtual miniport adapter.
Howcould I make WiFi active in the XP mode? Please advise.
Thanks

 

[zzz2496]

XP mode is in a virtual machine environment, it is not aware of what the host computer have (including wifi hardware). If you want to install a "wifi radar", you need to install in W7 instead.

zzz2496

 

[aldol]

Thanks, zzz2496. That was a reason I installed the XP mode. The Easy Radar doen't work with Win 7.

 

[aldol]

So, as I understood there is no way to make WiFi working on the XP Mode.
Please, advise if anybody knows if it's still possible to have WiFi in the XP Mode.

Thanks

 

[Kari]

Open XP Mode settings, click Networking on the left pane, change Adapter 1 to your host machine's WiFi NIC.

Kari

 

[aldol]

Thank you, Kari.

I did change it to the Realtek RTL819SE Wireless LAN 802 11n PCI-E NIC but when I opened the Network in XP it shwos only the Local Area Connection and it's still the same message "no WiFi software found" from the Easy WiFi Radar.
I tried to change it to Microsoft Virtual Miniport Adapter as well.

Any other thoughts on it?

Thanks

 

[Kari]

If the WiFi NIC works on host, I really don't understand why it doesn't in XP Mode.

I am very sorry, I really don't have any other ideas. I'll do some researching and come back.

Kari

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
as Kari says if the Wifi works on the Host it should work on your VM (even in XP mode)

This might be a basic question but it's a well known fact that in the event of many possibilities often the SIMPLEST solution is the correct one.

Have you actually ENABLED networking for the VM -- I'm not exactly sure how to do it in XP mode as I don't use XP mode - but on a "Typical VM" you set the Networking options in Host machine when you define the virtual machine - such as NAT, Bridged or HOST only.

In the case of VMWARE the "Virtual network adapter" (vnetxx xx is 01 - whatever) used by the Virtual Machine is the one the host is using so if your WiFi works on the host the virtual network adapter will automatically use it as well.

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Cheers
jimbo

 

[smc333]

All changing that setting does is point the VM to that networking adapter. VPC still emulates whatever hardware it natively emulates for LAN, just referencing that connection. No devIDs are passed and Win7 would have to (and therefore doesn't) relinquish control of the device.

Unfortunately, there is no way around this. I'm not sure what success other VM software might yield.

 

[Kari]

All changing that setting does is point the VM to that networking adapter. VPC still emulates whatever hardware it natively emulates for LAN, just referencing that connection. No devIDs are passed and Win7 would have to (and therefore doesn't) relinquish control of the device.

Unfortunately, there is no way around this. I'm not sure what success other VM software might yield.

I'm not sure if I understand your point correctly, so I'll just say this:

I have XP Mode installed on two laptops, both having the host's WiFi NIC as Adapter 1 in XP Mode settings. When on the road and only using WiFi (no LAN available), I've never had any problems to connect both my host and installed XP Mode to internet.

 

[zzz2496]

All changing that setting does is point the VM to that networking adapter. VPC still emulates whatever hardware it natively emulates for LAN, just referencing that connection. No devIDs are passed and Win7 would have to (and therefore doesn't) relinquish control of the device.

Unfortunately, there is no way around this. I'm not sure what success other VM software might yield.

I'm not sure if I understand your point correctly, so I'll just say this:

I have XP Mode installed on two laptops, both having the host's WiFi NIC as Adapter 1 in XP Mode settings. When on the road and only using WiFi (no LAN available), I've never had any problems to connect both my host and installed XP Mode to internet.

Kari, our OP have a specific software that he needs to use - that needs a specific hardware to be present. Passing a VM network interface does expose the connection to the guest OS, but not the hardware, the hardware is abstracted by the VM. To the VM, it's just a regular NIC (LAN), the software needs Wifi interface.

zzz2496

 

[Kari]

Thanks, I can see my mistake now.

 

[aldol]

Thanks to everybody for your replies. I didn't mention that I have the Internet connection on the Win XP but I'd need to use the Easy WiFi Radar that is not working under the Win 7 but under the Win XP it says there is no WiFi hardware found. Probably, it could be the case the Easy WiFi radar doesn't support my WiFi card or the actual hardware cannot be visible from the Win XP (that is the most likely).

Thanks