I booted parted magic 6.7 the x86_64 version on CD and it boot fine as usual. I stared the WICD, network manager to connect to my wifi and I connected to the internet. I am writing this response from FireFox 6.02 and all is fine. I have been on the wifi for over 11 minutes now and I am very surprised. I don't know which version of the wireless cards I am communicating but I will try to discover that also.
Why doesn't win7 connect with the same hardware????
I did not move the machine or make any changes. Doesn't make sense!! The card I am using is the "n" one, the light is on the card. Something is not right with win7 x64.
Here is a ipconfig on both machines. It looks like I am connected on the windows 7 side but windows doesn't see the internet. Either 6 or 6 but I am receiving packets on the windows 7 side.
Windows 7
G:\Users\Stephen>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : WIN7AMD955PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 6:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-54-8B-CA-73
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 5:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 802.11n Wireless LAN Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-08-54-8B-CA-72
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::a864:6114:ecfa:b98a%18(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, November 04, 2011 9:44:35 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, November 05, 2011 9:44:35 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 469764180
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-16-22-8F-AD-00-25-11-C6-F0-B4
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Xp wireless
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : single-630amd
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-25-11-C6-F0-B4
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection 5:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Ralink RT2500 Wireless LAN Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-02-44-A2-FA-69
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.10.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, November 04, 2011 9:16:10 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, November 05, 2011 9:16:10 AM