WIRELESS CARD ON WINDOWS 7

[flycap93]

I know the requirmets are for windows 7. i have a laptop with 512mb of ram and windows 7 works just fine. i have a WPC54G V3 linksys wireless card. i install the driver and it says in device manager "not enough resorces for this device." and it also says "if you want to use this device u will have to disable other devices." i've heard that resorces are ram (memory) but is there a way i can get this card to work at ALL!!

THANKS

 

[damian86]

You should check whats the requirements needed to get the card running.It should tell you on the box.

 

[flycap93]

well i meet the requirements by a lot and i still have this problem

 

[r-sky]

What driver are you installing? Looks to be an old card and Win7 may not have any drivers that work... and no support from linksys.

 

[flycap93]

the driver works. but there arent enough resorces and some other device needs to be disabled for it too work. thats what the error said

 

[das_stig]

Install some memory, 512Mb maybe all that W7 needs, but other devices use small portions of ram to load buffers and the like.

 

[flycap93]

is there a way around it other than getting more memory. this laptop is so old i dont want to put money into it.

 

[winner4455]

Buy a cheap laptop for $200

 

[Andy2008]

Somewhere in the BIOS there's a setting for "Plug'n'play-aware OS"; you'll want that set to "Yes" so that Windows can assign the IRQs for the cards - it could be that some IRQs need to be changed. It's unlikely to be RAM that's the insufficient resource.

If that doesn't work, you could reset the BIOS to its default (or "safe") settings.

Also, try not bothering to install the drivers - the card may work with Windows 7 anyway.

 

[will_chellam]

or try disabling some of the crap in the BIOS like a parallel port, modem, irda, serial ports if you dont need them - that'll sort out some IRQ's for you...


on a sidenote, gosh i remember writing config files in DOS to ensure all my IRQ's and DMA's were assigned to be non-confliciting so my games wouldnt crash when they tried to play MIDI sounds - I had a SB AWE32, horrible bastard had two IRQ's all to itself (7 and 11 if i remeber!)

 

[festerovic]

or try disabling some of the crap in the BIOS like a parallel port, modem, irda, serial ports if you dont need them - that'll sort out some IRQ's for you...

I have had similar problems cured by doing exactly this.