win 64 wifi card??

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Gun_Strife

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Well I am wanting to use my win xp pro 64 and my linksys card has no drivers that support this os and was woundering if any of you guys know which desktop wifi cards support it
 
k well, i might be lost a bit, what card is it that you have and who is it made by a link would be great

also I am really gratefull for your help
 
i bought a JAHT desktop wireless card from Newegg, it was around 30$ including shipping, it has a Ralink2500 chipset that supports winxp64 ...i love it !!!

they also sell a number of cards that use this chipset such as the Foxcon card,

check it out ....
 
The Gigabyte GN-WPKG wifi pci card uses the ra2500 chip. I'm running it now with my x64 install (got it free with my motherboard). Works like a charm. $20 + shipping at the egg.
 
latief75 said:
i bought a JAHT desktop wireless card from Newegg, it was around 30$ including shipping, it has a Ralink2500 chipset that supports winxp64 ...i love it !!!

they also sell a number of cards that use this chipset such as the Foxcon card,

check it out ....
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LOVE the Foxconn card, cheap, separate mast antenna w/ mag base and so far bulletproof. I've got 30 of them out in the wild.
 
thanks guys I think I'll pick up that gigabyte one could you please tell me how you can find out what chipset the cards are running
 
I had to do some serious google searching to find out, as I was very frustrated when Gigabyte themselves told me that their wifi cards weren't compatible with x64 since they were only 32bit hardware devices. Ha! I sent them a rather uncheerful reply stating that an x64 driver was in fact available and works perfectly.


It's almost hard to believe that RALink is about the only wifi manufacturer out there with a working x64 for their wifi cards right now. Very much a disappointment as I was interested in buying LinkSys everything for my network.
 
yea linksys pissed me off with their lack of support
so the gigabyte does have the 64bit drivers, and they can be found at gigabyte's website right?

also I cant thank you enough I really appreciate the help
 
No, Gigabyte doesn't have them on their site because they won't directly support x64 with certain products. You'll have to download the RALink RA2500 x64 driver posted earlier and use those. It's fine though, because even the RALink driver detects the card as a Gigabyte card. Well, I should say Windows lists it as a Gigabyte card after the driver initializes the hardware. ;)


To recap, here's the proper driver you'll need:

1. Click here to go to RALink's web support page.
2. Find the 3rd section down that says 11g-RT2500.
3. Click on PCI/MiniPCI/CardBus for XP x64.
4. Download the ZIP file.
5. You know the rest....

Enjoy!
 
maybe i dont know the rest it downloads as very small file like 118kb I think and when I open file I can't get it to work, is the file supposed to be bigger or what program do I need to get the files to work plz help me out once again
 
Yep, that's the right file size. You'll have to install it manually.


When you boot x64, you might get the New Hardware Wizard for the wifi card. Hit cancel.

Then do the following:
1. Open up the device manager (right click on My Computer and choose Manage, then select device manager from the list on the left).
2. Find the wifi device under network adapters.
3. Right click on it and choose update driver.
4. Follow the screen by screen play and be sure to point it to the folder where the unzipped driver files are.
5. You'll probably have to reboot.
6. Enjoy!

Let us know if you need any more help bud.
 
thanks alot bro I kept trying and trying but thanks to you I now gots my new rig up and running on x64
 
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