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Hello guysI hope that Im in the right forum, as Im having a right ol problem with my wi-fi adapter sitecom W171 gt, I have downloaded the drivers for vista and it is all there my problem is that my adapter is not showing at all, I've tried add hardware, etc but still no joy, as I a great interest in testing this beta 7, its no good if I can't access the net.I am at present using the same adapter on XP and there's no problems. My system is an Acer power with 2 gig ram Nvidia 8600gt with 1024 meg and 2 HD's, 1. with XP and the other with windows 7 Question is the sitecom W171 compatable with 7, I have also tried changing the compatability to run as XP with SP3. any helpers please
May 21st, 2009 3:37pm

Mike-Now that's gotta be one fairly obscure Wifi card... I did a Google search for it and it coughed up pretty much anything and everything BUT info on the card... There was at least one link that lead to another link on the German version of Amazon.com that had some information on it. According to the listing on Amazon - that particular card seems to be compliant with Windows 98 SE, Win ME, Win 2000, and XP. There's no information on it being compatible or supported under Vista. As such, it may not be. Then again, I'm only relying on the tech specs on Amazon.de for details. The key here would not be XP compatibility - but Vista compatibility. The driver model for Vista changed drastically from the one used in XP and as such, XP drivers may not work with it properly.And if they won't work with Vista, you can pretty much forget it working with Windows 7.If you can find drivers that were meant for that card and Vista, you should be able to get it to work properly. If not, might be time to find yourself one that is.
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May 21st, 2009 3:53pm

thanks wolfe.Helped a lot I figgered just as much, so back to ebay lol and get another one might just try one of the new USB types which seem to be all the rage now, still thanks again.Mike
May 21st, 2009 4:36pm

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