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

Windows 7 Build 7106 leaked earlier this week and there was a huge amount of excitement around the forums because of the obvious large gap between 7077 and 7106; seems like a lot of builds!

The truth is, they’ve just branched the code base this week; checking out build 7076, and relabelling it as 7106, ready to work on towards the RTM build, while 7076, 7077 onwards, will be polished to ultimately be released as the RC (probably at build 7100?).

So.. 7106 is actually 1 day older than 7077. Anyone thinking about rushing out and sourcing a chinese iso and a language pack can probably hold out for either the RC or a later RTM branch build; possibly with some of these exciting new surprises??

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