Wireless Card Airlink Mimo XR

xguntherc

xguntherc

I Click Home To Much
Vista Guru
OK, I've finally installed Vista 64 on my new build.. this is the first night I have it up and running.

I can't get online to update any of my drivers.. cuz my wireless card doesn't work.

Any suggestions. I even tried the disk, it only has x86 on it. so I ran a hardwire, can't usually, it's on the floor.

so I used it and downloaded some things I thought would work and I'm having NO luck with it. I don't kno whats wrong. or why I can't get it to work.

It's a Airlink Mimo XR 802.11G PCI Adapter mdel AWLH5026

and nothing will work, anyone can help please do.

I can't have this wire on the ground all week.

Thanks

Cory
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB. Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
Hi

Well, HERE is the only driver offered for this product, but after reading the specs page it seems that this particular adapter doesn't support Vista...
Airlink's site lists adapters that do support Vista and others that just go up to XP and this particular model only goes up to XP from what the specs say.

Did you purchase this adapter specifically for use with Vista or is this an older one that you're trying to get to work on Vista?
I think you're going to have to upgrade this card to get your wireless network working with Vista I'm afraid...sorry.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Personal Build
    CPU
    Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
    Motherboard
    Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
    Memory
    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x 22" w2207 LCD Monitors
    Screen Resolution
    1- 1680 x 1050, 1 - 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    3 x 500G SATA II WD Caviar HDD's
    PSU
    EnerMax NoiseTaker II 600W
    Case
    NZXT Lexa Classic (modified, dual doored & windowed)
    Cooling
    Zalman 9700 CPU cooler, 4-120mm fans, 1-90mm
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical Trackman trackball
    Other Info
    NZXT Lexa Classic Case, Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler, 2 DVD Burners c/w LightScribe (Sony, TSST), Enermax NoiseTaker II 600W PSU with Custom Chrome cable sleeving, Hauppauge HDTV TV Tuner Card, 5.1 Logitech Z5500 speakers, 15 in 1 Multi-card reader
No I've been using this Card with Vista on my Current Machine for the last almost 11 months.. this works Fine on My vista machine.. it wa a 32 bit tho..

I've just finished building my new Quad Core system :)

and I loaded vista 64 bit onto it.. and now I can't get that thing to work.. not sure what the deal is with that..

Thanks for your help so fast, let me kno. It's hardwired right now, but I can't keep wire where it is.. Thanks!
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB. Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
Hi

Well, the network stack is quite different on the 64bit Vista systems so this could be that the driver doesn't support 64bit yet.
I would contact Airlink101 support and ask them about this and see if they have or are working on drivers for 64bit systems.

Good luck and I'm sure you'll enjoy your Quad core...I built a new machine last year with the Core 2 Duo E6750 and it's plenty fast for what I do so far. I made sure my MB would support quad core in case I upgrade soon also.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Personal Build
    CPU
    Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo
    Motherboard
    Asus Commando MoBo (P965/ICH8R)
    Memory
    4G's Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC26400 RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    BFG 8800GTS OC2 320MB
    Sound Card
    Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Platinum FATAL1TY (next)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x 22" w2207 LCD Monitors
    Screen Resolution
    1- 1680 x 1050, 1 - 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    3 x 500G SATA II WD Caviar HDD's
    PSU
    EnerMax NoiseTaker II 600W
    Case
    NZXT Lexa Classic (modified, dual doored & windowed)
    Cooling
    Zalman 9700 CPU cooler, 4-120mm fans, 1-90mm
    Mouse
    Logitech Optical Trackman trackball
    Other Info
    NZXT Lexa Classic Case, Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler, 2 DVD Burners c/w LightScribe (Sony, TSST), Enermax NoiseTaker II 600W PSU with Custom Chrome cable sleeving, Hauppauge HDTV TV Tuner Card, 5.1 Logitech Z5500 speakers, 15 in 1 Multi-card reader
Hey all, yeah I am bringing this one back from the dead. I had the exact same problem with this card after installing vista x64. I tried every driver out there, even downloading all the ralink drivers (ralink makes the chips for airlink) with no luck. So for sh!ts and giggles I went through the drivers allready installed on vista, and it had some ralink drivers that came oem, so I tried them one by one and the first of the three ralink catagories (you'll know what that means when you get there) has a 8011.2g pci driver that works perfectly! I just wanted to update this in case anyone else was having the same problems.
 

My Computer

System One

This card does, indeed, work with Vista / Win2k8 x64. The driver was not installed by default, though. You need to go to Ralink's website and get the driver for RT61 chipset for Windows.

Support Website:
Direct Link:

Then you have to install the drivers. They won't work automatically but they'll appear in program files\Ralink. You have to force device manager to use the Ralink drivers:

Device manager->Update Driver Software->Browse...->Let me pick...->Have Disk...->Browse to the Drivers in program files\Ralink\Drivers->Choose Ralink RT61 MIMO Wireless LAN Card Driver

EDIT: You CAN NOT let Windows try to search for the driver from the list, because Windows will not detect it on its own. You MUST manually select the driver because Windows does not know it is the correct driver. Also be sure to select the exact driver I listed (Ralink RT61 MIMO Wireless LAN Card Driver) if you have this exact card, the AWLH5026. If you choose the wrong driver Windows will try to install it anyway, and it may have unexpected or undesired results. I cannot be held responsible if you mess something up :)
 
Last edited:

My Computer

System One

Hey, if anyone has done this same thing.. let me know.

It's nice that even tho it's a dead thread, you guys posted what you found to work for others to also find and use.

I followed what you said below on that last reply and downloaded that driver, Installed and tried to install from device manager, i don't have a disk, and search for drivers, but it still wont work.

Anyone have a suggestion for me, I found this airlink in the closet and I was going to add it to a Vista x64 HP machine I'm selling tomorrow but I can't get this stupid wireless card to work.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB. Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
No, you can't do "search automatically", you must follow my instructions exactly from my previous post. When it asks you to search or to pick manually, you must pick manually and select the "Ralink RT61 MIMO Wireless LAN Card Driver".

The reason for this is Windows does not know this is the correct driver, because it thinks it is an Airlink card. However, the chipset inside the Airlink card is the RaLink RT61 chipset. RaLink provides a 64 bit driver for this chipset, and Airlink does not because they suck and they went out of business or something. So use the RaLink driver by picking it manually and your wifi card will work.
 

My Computer

System One

You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top