Hello all.I rather successfullyinstalled the Windows 7 Beta 1 onto my laptopabout a week ago, including getting the TrueMobile 1300 WLAN card to connect with my home wifinetwork. Everything works fine, including internet.However, a couple of days ago I installed W7 onto my desktop and the experience was not so smooth. It appears everything is working except for my WG311v3 Netgear wifi card. It's acting very strangely.Here are some of the things I've tried (FYI, I fully uninstalledand deleted drivers and software between each step): Installed the latest regular Netgear drivers... the Netgear app installed, but the drivers didn't seem to work - Windows recognised drivers had been installed, but complained that the device wouldn't start. The Netgear application noted the same. Installed the NT/XP Marvell drivers (chipset manufacturers of the WG311v3)... this was promising, as I had Windows install the drivers, and they were recognised (no device problems). I connected to my home network, typed the WPA key and voila. But unfortunately, it first complained about limited connection, then decided it could only create a local area connection. No internet. Strangely, it also marked the network as 'unidentified' and marked it as 'public'. Odd. Connected an ethernet cable and got online no problems. Used Windows Update to install whatever was recommended. These included Netgear drivers. Resulted similarly as the first point, (i.e. device won't start)but without the Netgear software. Returned to the Marvell drivers and fiddled with the IPv4 and IPv6 options (on/off, etc). Added a registry line that was recommended on the MS website for a very similar Vista problem. Nothing helped.As you can see, a wired connection works fine,but it's really not very reasonable with the way my flat is set up.Has anyone any ideas or help? I'm tempted to buy a wifi dongle, but worried that won't work either...Cheers.

The device does not work properly. It can be caused by programs or the device driver. I suggest that you temporary disable the anti-virus and firewall. Then reinstall the device driver. If the issue persists, I suspect that this is a compatibility issue between the Netgear WG311v3 and Windows 7 beta. If there are other network adapters available, I suggest that you switch the device and then check the result. Arthur Xie - MSFT

I feared as much. Oh well.Thanks for the response.

I have some what the same problem but with an air card (netgear) have tried every thing but no go. try a belken card works well.I have another problem. I was connecting to a network at home with Vista with my laptop. but now with windows 7 I see the network, shows as poor to low sometime good but will not connect, can not fix it. Tried every thing I could think of.with Vista I could connect even if it showed low.What is up with that. The new drivers with window7 work better when you have 4 or 5 bars but anything less then 3 you cant connect.

autodoc said: I have some what the same problem but with an air card (netgear) have tried every thing but no go. try a belken card works well.I have another problem. I was connecting to a network at home with Vista with my laptop. but now with windows 7 I see the network, shows as poor to low sometime good but will not connect, can not fix it. Tried every thing I could think of.with Vista I could connect even if it showed low.What is up with that. The new drivers with window7 work better when you have 4 or 5 bars but anything less then 3 you cant connect. Hi, This issue is caused by the performance of the device driver. As you said, in both Windows Vista and Windows 7 beta it shows low. We could find that the system build-in drivers do not work well with the device. As the driver in Windows 7 beta should be newer than it in Windows Vista. There would be more incompatibility between the device and the system after you upgrade to Windows 7 beta. We hope that the device manufacturer will release Windows 7-compatible drivers in future.Arthur Xie - MSFT

FWIW, I'm experiencing identical problems. Working on a Dell Inspiron 6000 w/Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wlan adapter - I get a local connection but no internet. Connecting via the onboard ethernet adpater, everything works smoothly (local and internet). I tried the registry entry fix suggested (for Vista) in a related thread - see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928233. No go.

TRY THIS: http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19262053.aspx Hope that helps.