I finally had time to look into this again. Do you remember which drivers you installed to get yours working? I had an issue with another piece of hardware recently and the solution was to install the Vista drivers instead of the Win7 drivers, but I dont want to try this as of yet as the drivers dont seem to really be the issue. To answer your question directly, as I have the revision B hardware, there are no Win7 drivers for it. Now, as I said before the adapter is recognised on a normal boot, connects to my home network, but is not assigned an IP address. So I uninstalled the D-Link drivers, ran ccleaner to clean the registry, restarted my pc and installed the MediaTek driver and utility. After installing the update to fix the botched update, the AMD drivers worked fine and I was hoping that would allow for proper installation of the adapter drivers, but it did not.Īfter looking online some more I found people referring to the Ralink (now MediaTek) drivers, as these seem to be more reliable.

Both the AMD and adapter drivers would work when disabling driver signature enforcement, but neither would on a standard boot. At the same time I purchased a graphics card (R9 270), and found that even those drivers would not install correctly, but this was all due to the dodgy Microsoft update released on 10th of December. Initially I installed the D-Link drivers from the CD. I have the revision B2 DWA-160, and am running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit on an i5-3450 with 4GB RAM.Īpologies if I missed any important info, I had a massive post typed up but accidentally closed Chrome, and cannot remember what I wrote! It seems to be something to do with Windows 7 signed driver enforcement, but the MediaTek drivers are WHQL.ĭoes anyone have any other suggestions for me to try? Furthermore, beforehand I was using a Netgear wg111v3 adapter, but uninstalled those drivers before opening the new adapter. The modem I use is the Netgear CG3100D-2. If I boot up normally it will connect to my home network, but wont be assigned an IP address and has 'limited connectivity'. However, I still have to hit F8 to get Internet access. These newer drivers then meant the LED on the adapter was flashing and there were no warning/error symbols in device manager. I then tried the MediaTek RT2870 drivers. I could only get it to work if I disabled driver signature enforcement upon boot up (F8). I installed the drivers that came with the CD. I recently bought a DWA-160 and have had issues getting it to work.

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