Windows Vista forum: Wireless Atheros ar5007 driver

How many tech support people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Seriously, though...

Can you figure this lan only access thing?

The atheros driver is b/g only but even if it's
an n router, it should still connect ok.

Have you heard of successful connections in this example?

Router model, revision and firmware settings.

Keep in mind that the CNET Networking Forum sticky shows where we start for settings.

Try turning off the Vista Broadcast flag which caused old routers to lockup, reboot or crash.
Note and fix at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233

Bob

Linksys E3000. I started this thread in this forum but it should really have been in wireless/networking.

Regardless, I became one of the unsuspecting and trusting Linksys brood that
got burned by the fact that the Linksys E3000 does NOT NOT work! at least with
Windows Vista Home Premium.

The Atheros WiFi driver is not upgradable to work with this router.

It turned out to be a clunker for me.

I wanted to play frisbee golf with it after all of the hours wasted
with the new "cisco" trained "linksys" tech support *&&^%.

In the past, Linksys routers have worked very well for me and the tech support
has been great.

When they got bought out by Cisco, the quantity increased but the quality
(attention to detail?) went bye bye.

I am now looking at the Netgear WNDR3700 instead.

Good choice?

Bob, I followed your links, thannks for that.

happen to know the website address? I found one like that but it
was only a listing of all the different drivers and I couldn't find
a download link at all.


So, how is the router working now? How long have you had it?

Thanks.

yep, thats it. click on the blue link thats says "download wireless driver for atheros ar5007" on the next page click the green "click for download" box and wait a few seconds for the download to begin (should get a prompt from windows)

are you trying to update the atheros driver to fix the e3000 problem?
(getting a local only connection on your laptop?)

ok, this is a different router and a differnt issue. your model router is not compatible with vista (well, its not on the list of compatible routers....will it work? thats another question) are you running this computer wired or wireless? there is a firmware update for the router that should allow you to work with the vista computer WIRED to the router, as for wireless i am not sure.... i'd be glad to walk you through a firmware update if thats what you want to do

I was struggling with being able to connect to our new Westell 7500 router from my HP Vista laptop withe the Atheros AR5007 wifi adapter and had tried a million things before stumbling on this updated driver which solved the problem immediately. thank you!!!!

Great post GR1FF! I had the same exact problem. I have a Linksys E3000 and my stepson has a Windows Vista machine. He always had to sign in as a guest. So tonight I finally looked into the problem.
I went to the Czech site and downloaded the 9.1.0.328 driver and installed it. Rebooted the machine. No change - still didn't work.
So then I tried the "Let me fix it myself" section of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233. Rebooted the machine and viola! His laptop can now connect to my Linksys router.
But I'm not sure that the new driver had a role in getting things right. I didn't want to back it out as I didn't want to "fix something that wasn't broke" anymore. So for now, I'll say that the solution for me was to do these two things -- install the updated driver AND perform the registry edit.
A word of caution about # 2 in "Let me fix it myself". The instruction refers generically to a GUID. It was not readily apparent which GUID went with which network adapter as there were four of them listed in Device Manager. So I guessed that they were in the same order. The Atheros was the first one listed in the Network Adapter section of Device Manager so I selected the first GUID in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces. I guessed correctly.

Just to clarify one more time....

I have since uninstalled the e3000.

I am going to take your advice and try it again.

Once I complete the install, log in as guest, go to the .cz website
install driver.... then reboot?

I hope this works, thanks in advance if it goes well... or not:)

open control panel, select hardware and sound,click on the device manager,select network adapters, right clcik on the aterhos AR5007 and select update driver software. now select the browse my computer option to install in manually. select the location of the driver on your computer and click next. should finish installing in about a minute or so. no need to reboot, now just select your network from the list of available ones. that should give you full access to local and internet.. have any problems or questions, just ask.

glad I was able to help