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Posted by admin as blog at 11:33 PM MST
Few weeks back, I decided to upgrade my Gaming System by adding 2GB more RAM making to 4GB all together. I knew that I would have to upgrade my OS to 64bit as well for it to recognize the complete 4GB (Windows XP was displaying only 2806MB). While I was upgrading, why not go with the latest OS. So I decided to go with Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit. I installed by completely formating my hard disk. The installation went without a glitch. So far so good.
Now the next step was to get drivers for my components/peripherals which the OS did not auto-detect. It was good that the list consisted of only 3 devices
1. Airlink101 Super G Wireless PCI Card - Model AWLH4130.
2. Logitech Quickcam Chat WebCam.
3. Creative Audigy 2 ZS.
I found the Webcam driver on the manufacturer’s website. Creative Audigy has always been a problem as this is an OEM card which came with my old HP computer. Even the latest drivers from Creative donot work with this thing.
But the main issue was the Airlink101 Wireless PCI card. I really needed to install this because otherwise I will have no network access on this box - hence, no internet, no LAN Parties, no online gaming. I tried installing the Windows XP 64bit drivers available on the manufacturer’s website. No success. I checked the FAQs on the website which said
“AWLC4130/AWLH4130:
XP driver 4.1.2.714 can be installed for Vista and works fluently. You can insert the card and let Vista install the drivers automatically. Drivers are available for download in the drivers and firmware section.”
I had already tried that without success. Next step - call the support. Result - The manufacturer is working on the drivers and will be available soon. No idea about how soon. I was suggested to return the card if I could and replace the one which already has drivers for Vista. This was the last option. I started searching online to see if anyone else was having the same problem, only to find out that this model is not that popular. However I was able to find out the chipset on this card (not the chipset number, only the maunfaturer). The chipset is Atheros which is used by a lot of the vendors today. I started searching online to find drivers for this chipset.
Luckily found this website - http://www.atheros.cz/ which is think is Czech version of the same company’s website. There are some drivers available there for the Atheros chipsets. The Vista 64 drivers did not work but the XP 64 bit drivers did. I took me about an hour to go through all this. If the company do a little research on their part and worked with the chipset company, customers will not have to through this trouble. Most of the people would have given up. So I decided to write this post in the hope that this would come up in some search engine result and help other people.
P.S. - The card is shown as Atheros Wireless Network Adapter in the Device Manager instead of Airlink101 xxxxxxx …. But I don’t care as long as it is working.
Posted by admin as system, windows at 12:49 AM MST
This is my second attempt to maintain this blog. Earlier this domain hosted my personal blog, but it was way low on the search list of my name on various search engines, so I just decided to move that to a much easier found domain, that is ranked 1 on most search engines. So you can just get to it if you know my name :). And now I am going to use this domain to talk about various things that are not as personal, mainly mostly about my hobby - new gadgets, software, hardware, technologies and sometimes about other things as well. So please do enroll to the feed to get the latest.
Thanks, and happy reading.
Posted by admin as blog at 10:01 AM MST
