Which Wireless Cards Works with Vista

Stanomatic · Apr 18, 2006, 03:17 PM

Hello,

My Netgear WPN311 wireless card will not work with vista. I tried a manual install with no joy. So instead of hammering a round peg through a square whole which wireless cards are working for February Vista? I will buy the one that works.

Stan

drivers_64 · Jun 15, 2006, 06:49 AM

The wireless card should work just fine. I had trouble getting the driver to work with the 64-bit vista beta, but solved the entire problem when I learned that the issue was not with the card or the driver, but with windows, itself. What is happening is this - although the drivers install alright, because they are not digitally signed, Windows won't let them work. This can be remedied in one of two ways: first, by hitting F8 before windows loads and disabling digital signing (this must be done every time windows boots), or, second, disabling it permanently in the PC recovery console (which can only be reached via a Windows installation CD) by entering "bcdedit.exe -set nointegritychecks ON". Here is the link to the forum where I got this from: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php...ith+Promise+FT . And here is the link for the WPN311 driver I am using http://members.driverguide.com/drive...riverid=690898 (I think the download includes both 64-bit and 32-bit drivers). Disabling the "digitally signed" stipulation also fixed the problems I was having with my sound card, so it should be useful for other driver issues also.

Apr 18, 2006, 03:17 PM	#1
Stanomatic DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Which Wireless Cards Works with Vista Hello, My Netgear WPN311 wireless card will not work with vista. I tried a manual install with no joy. So instead of hammering a round peg through a square whole which wireless cards are working for February Vista? I will buy the one that works. Stan

Jun 15, 2006, 06:49 AM	#2
drivers_64 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	The wireless card should work just fine. I had trouble getting the driver to work with the 64-bit vista beta, but solved the entire problem when I learned that the issue was not with the card or the driver, but with windows, itself. What is happening is this - although the drivers install alright, because they are not digitally signed, Windows won't let them work. This can be remedied in one of two ways: first, by hitting F8 before windows loads and disabling digital signing (this must be done every time windows boots), or, second, disabling it permanently in the PC recovery console (which can only be reached via a Windows installation CD) by entering "bcdedit.exe -set nointegritychecks ON". Here is the link to the forum where I got this from: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php...ith+Promise+FT . And here is the link for the WPN311 driver I am using http://members.driverguide.com/drive...riverid=690898 (I think the download includes both 64-bit and 32-bit drivers). Disabling the "digitally signed" stipulation also fixed the problems I was having with my sound card, so it should be useful for other driver issues also.