WMP110 With windows XP or Vista 64Bits

18Mar09

Hola Amigos !

Here we go again, this time i had this weird thought of trying out the 64 bits Workaround with some other adapter rather than the normal cards. So we took a WMP110 (IEEE 802.11b/g/n PCI Range Plus Wireless PCI Adapter) and a Windows XP 64 bits machine to try it install and working. First, it was like Impossible searching different resources and digging google to the extent (up to page 20 in the search results, Lo_0L) !!

Came out with one result.only can try some hit and trial stuff and see if its get it up and running and also, “wisemen “had said Correctly, “To learn something, Don’t ever hesitate to do something new and different. Regardless to the outcome or Result. ” Okay, Enough of the philosophy and lets get it grooving.

First, We put the card inside the computer onto the one of the Empty PCI slot located on to the motherboard or  the chipset of the CPU. Restarted the computer, once done. Accessed the Device manager (NOTE – no use of installing the disc came along with the Adapter as it sucks a big time in 64 bits case),got the device listed as network controller under other devices. right clicked > properties > details Tab . device ID or Instance ID.

We found, VEN_XXXX and DEV_XXXX these are the codes for the chipset VENDOR and the DEVICE version.

This is the most important thing as many a linksys adapters are based on different third party chipsets so its really not unhealthy to know which one you got. Atheros,RaLink etc.One got the VEN and DEV codes, google’em up.In our case we had VEN_1871, got RALink N series chipset in the result. (Result may differ i heared, someone got atheros too.) Now this is just for the vendor, after doing this we googl’ed a bit more about DEV ID and found a reference to RT2760 Card from RALink Stable. Downloaded the drivers for the Card.

Guess what, Right after the end of the installation of the drivers it recognized that unknown network controlled automatically and installed it rightaway without even asking (Lo_0L).The next was to check, if its really working or No? Chek this out

WMP110 with 64bits Xp

Truly an outstanding performance with almost 200MBPS on Wireless LAN if using a Wireless N router.And with a little more workaround, it could garner around 300MBPS and working Like a Charm.

Mission Accomplished, WMP110 Installed Successfully on 64bits O.S.

Hell Yea.

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