Question WIFI Wireless Card

[Hokeywolf]

I have long had a Linksys WiFi card that mounts to the mother board. I lost the install software. It is "Wireless-G 2.4 GHz' PCI Adapter. Model WMP54G. It is from Cisco Systems. I have looked everywhere for the original software. No longer supported by Linksys or Cisco. I also wasn't able to make anyone else's software to work. Is there any chance that one of you may have the correct software and could share it with me? Thanks. Arnie

 

[Wolfshadw]

Do you need the actual software or just the driver to make it work? The driver can be found online.

-Wolf sends

 

[bill001g]

So which OS are you running. Many times you can not get drivers for the new OS.

Before you get real far maybe spend $15 and get a somewhat newer card. 802.11g is over 20 years old.

If the card is even partially recognized by the current OS you might find the chipset manufacture. You can also look at the chips themselves to see who makes them. You might have better luck looking for a generic driver for that chip rather than a linksys one. Many of the chip companies have been purchased or merged over the years so it could make it harder.

Note a lot of the linksys stuff was sold to cisco and then cisco gave up and sold it to belkin. I have not stayed on top of this so I don't know who owns the linksys brand name now days. I think all of belkin was purchased by foxconn.

 

[Hokeywolf]

So which OS are you running. Many times you can not get drivers for the new OS.

Before you get real far maybe spend $15 and get a somewhat newer card. 802.11g is over 20 years old.

If the card is even partially recognized by the current OS you might find the chipset manufacture. You can also look at the chips themselves to see who makes them. You might have better luck looking for a generic driver for that chip rather than a linksys one. Many of the chip companies have been purchased or merged over the years so it could make it harder.

Note a lot of the linksys stuff was sold to cisco and then cisco gave up and sold it to belkin. I have not stayed on top of this so I don't know who owns the linksys brand name now days. I think all of belkin was purchased by foxconn.

I have W-10 on one pc and w-7 on another. This was originally on a 32 bit machine running XP Home. As I recall the unit came with a CD and whatever was needed to run it was on the CD. Thanks

 

[logainofhades]

You shouldn't need any special software, for that card, just the windows driver itself, which anything that old might have a driver already preloaded, into Windows 10. I second replacing it, though.

 

[bill001g]

So I though I would try to find the driver software but there are 4 different hardware revisions of that device and they even use completely different manufactures of chips for the early ones.

Go into the device manager and try to find the card. Even with the wrong drivers etc windows will still see the hardware. The simple thing to try is to click on the option to have windows search for the proper driver. On this same screen it will tell you the chipset that is being used. With that you can search for that part number and a windows 10 driver.

If the device does not appear in the device manager the card might be defective.

I will assume you have a very old pc that you are trying to insert this in. The card is PCI. Almost all modern pc only have PCIE slots.