blogitech from Chris Maddern

Nightmare.

Wireless N adapters never seem to work with Windows 7 x64. I have now, however gotten my F5D8051 to work so I thought I’d post a quick guide.

1. Download the drivers from here for the Ralink chipset

2. Install the package

3. Update the driver for your Belkin N1 adapter to the driver

4. Click ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers…’

5.  Untick ‘Show compatible hardware’

6. Select ‘Ralink Technology, Corp.’ (if there are two, pick the second)

7. Select ‘802.11n USB Wireless Card’.

8. Install the driver and watch your network stop dropping out!!!

Good luck! When in doubt; get the chipset manufacturers driver!

Chris

Okay, so the Windows 7 Beta is out and it’s good. Great in fact! So I figured that I would migrate all of my systems to use Windows 7; and document the process while I’m at it!

So in the next couple days I’ll be publishing a quick guide and outlining my thoughts on installing Windows 7 on:

- Macbook Air – 32 bit build through BootCamp.

- Desktop – 64 bit build on a system designed as a Media PC

- Workstation – 64 bit build on a top end workstation machine. :)

All systems are up and running in good order, but occasionally the process wasn’t obvious.

Stay tuned….

Chris

Chris123NT has posted a wonderful guide that proves exactly what I thought would be the case but didn’t get round to trying for lack of an x64 install of Vista on any machine, oh, and time!

In order to install iTunes and the iPhone on x64 Windows 7 you need merely get source the Apple Mobile Device Center files from a Vista x64 install, copy them over and then run a registry script (i.e. the install that fails).

Head over here for the full guide; the files are now available in a rar file in one of the comments so just scroll down and save yourself an x64 Vista install.

That’s now all applications / hardware working fully on Windows 7 6801. Hang on for a production-system review soon!

Chris