I had to track down the chipset manufacturer for the device which is Ralink. So rather than take defeat (this thing was freaking $50) i scoured the internet until i found info on this.
#Linksys wusb54g v4 driver windows 7 32 bit 64 Bit#
so there big wireless models that have been out forever and during the lifespan of 64 bit OS's is totally not supported, not even for Vista (a lot of Win 7 is Vista based, many if not all the Vista drivers work for Win 7). "WUSB54G is not compatible with Windows7. Ok so ill go to Linksys site and get the drivers from there.
Went to windows driver site, they only had the 32 bit version verified to work. and rummaging through the debug app, the WUSB54G drivers were the problem. The big issue now? after installing Win 7 圆4, i got CONSTANT BSOD's. If you went to Best Buy or such at the time, pretty much it looked like it was there flagship models. When i bought my wireless adapter, i got it along with the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. and wouldnt you know, XP had a 64 bit version as well. if you havent kept up with the times, there was an OS that came out not too long ago called Vista and it had a 64 bit flavour. well i get the final release and i see 1.2 gigs and it made me a sad panda.īut besides a bunch of hardware issues, lets get to the point at hand, my WUSB54G v4.0 wireless network adapter. comparing that to my vista laptop which was 1.2 gigs to 1.5 gigs right from startup i thought this would be great. in the RTC i was seeing ~600-800 megs footprint, close to XP levels i was currently running. Well i was a little disappointed to find out the final version had a larger memory footprint then its much nicer test version. it was better than Vista in the RTC version i downloaded and used and
So recently i did the shitty upgrade path from XP to Win 7 only because of 2 things:ġ. its been a looooooooong time since i updated this but hey, better late than never eh?