Netgear WG311v3 in Windows 7 x64

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Grand Master

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As the title says, has anyone managed to get a Netgear WG311v3 wireless PCI card to work in Windows 7 x64? The driver from Netgear's site is not signed (according to Windows 7), but a working driver was included in Vista x64. Why is it that Microsoft seems to like to drop drivers like this between versions? If it worked in Vista it SHOULD work in 7. Its not like this is ancient hardware, these cards are still being sold in stores! The only way I've managed to get it to work is turning off driver signing checking, but I really hate having to do that.

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Grand Master

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hi, it's x64, upgraded it today to 7057, still no issue, using standard win7 drivers though win update updated the driver shortly after clean install

Hmmm, maybe next time I try to install, I'll hook up the ethernet connection to my router so I can get it connected. The wireless card is the primary connection on my system, so obviously I couldn't hit Windows Update since the driver wasn't working.

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Hmmm, maybe next time I try to install, I'll hook up the ethernet connection to my router so I can get it connected. The wireless card is the primary connection on my system, so obviously I couldn't hit Windows Update since the driver wasn't working.

My desktop is connected by wifi usually but have a cable connection also, which is what it uses to update on a new install.

wait for the Rc and do a clean install - should solve the problem

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I see the thread is oldish, but I too am in the same boat...Has anyone found a working and stable driver? I have tried the Marvel 8335 wireless drivers, tried the latest Vista x64 drivers (unsigned, and i haven't disabled the requirement) and both no good.

This is a pain the butt Netgear... Support your products better!! Yes, I understand the OS in an RC release, but if ATI and nvidia can do it...

Grand Master

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Since someone else revived this thread, I'll add in what I recently found. When I have 4GB in this system, I have trouble with the card. When I drop the RAM to 2GB, all problems go away and the card works fine in Vista and in 7.

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Since someone else revived this thread, I'll add in what I recently found. When I have 4GB in this system, I have trouble with the card. When I drop the RAM to 2GB, all problems go away and the card works fine in Vista and in 7.

Yeah, i tried that too, but unfortunately no joy for me...

Still waiting on Netgear to release a driver for W7.

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I have this same wireless card and it worked flawlessly in Vista x64 and all previous Win7 x64 betas using the driver supplied by Windows Update. I installed clean each time, and I just installed the RC clean and now it seems no driver works for this for ANYBODY. The included Windows Update driver which has always worked before now just sends the card into a "Code 10" state as if it were an IRQ issue, which is damn near impossible nowadays. I also love how if it WERE an IRQ issue, you can't change any resources on the resources tab as it says it's not working... nice one MS.

Anyways, it seems the RC has completely borked this card for ALL users and i'm at a loss as to why... and after posting about it on the Microsoft technet forums, there's been no firm help and even after locating a newer driver and disabling driver signing to get it to work, I still get a Code 10.

I honestly don't know what they did in the RC, but it seems networking is f*cked as a whole considering everything i've been reading. Severely disappointing after finding all previous beta experiences with this flawless.

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Since someone else revived this thread, I'll add in what I recently found. When I have 4GB in this system, I have trouble with the card. When I drop the RAM to 2GB, all problems go away and the card works fine in Vista and in 7.

Thee is UPDATED drivers that solve this issue, i to had the same problem, goto the netgear site and download the new drivers and you will be able to use 4gb of ram.

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phunkymunky

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Thee is UPDATED drivers that solve this issue, i to had the same problem, goto the netgear site and download the new drivers and you will be able to use 4gb of ram.

Fixes it for XP and Vista 32 bit, not for 7 unfortunately... They were released Feb 29, 2008

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Fixes it for XP and Vista 32 bit, not for 7 unfortunately... They were released Feb 29, 2008

They work for Windows 7 im using them on here... After you install the drivers you have to manuall select the drivers for Marvel Libertas not the netgear , marvel is the chipset that netgear uses

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Sorry, but I'm not using some untested hack (ReadyDriver) to get this POS wireless card working with more than 2GB of RAM. I gave up and simply ran a cable from my router to my desktop. Netgear needs to get off of their butts and fix this issue correctly.

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Netgear won't provide newer drivers for this product, as they'd rather you were forced to update to a newer product (311T or WPN284). One of the things I don't like about Netgear is their quick abandoning of updated drivers for working hardware.

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Netgear won't provide newer drivers for this product, as they'd rather you were forced to update to a newer product (311T or WPN284). One of the things I don't like about Netgear is their quick abandoning of updated drivers for working hardware.

Not only is this working hardware, it is hardware that is still currently being sold! Netgear had a duty to release a working driver for this card or they will run the risk of people really being ticked off at them. The current driver simply does not work correctly when more than 2GB is installed in a 64-bit system (Vista OR 7).

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After going through everything with this adapter, this is the last netgear product I will purchase. For a problem that seems to be getting so much attention, you would think netgear would do something about it.

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I have the exact same PCI card and I ran windows 7 32 build 7000 and it worked fine

from then on after the beta WG311 has not worked for me on either 32 and 64 builds

i think its a win 7 driver issue

i can't seem to get mine working in Vista either anymore. cheap enough to replace so i did...

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I have the exact same PCI card and I ran windows 7 32 build 7000 and it worked fine

from then on after the beta WG311 has not worked for me on either 32 and 64 builds

i think its a win 7 driver issue

Exactly the same. Will try the Gold release, but it was a slightly annoying setback at the least.

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