It may be a bit premature as of yet (pre October 2009) to try microshaft driver vault. I had to send the new HP 5210F back to have the SDHC reader installed they forgot to put into it at the factory assembly in Mexico (hmm). Anyway, last bit of table slapping fun I had with trying to get a Netgear WG311.v2 802.11g PCI card to spring to life on windows 7 home (premium, deluxe whatever they called it) Netgear suggested two courses;
1. Uninstall everything and cold start.
Then install driver from CD (like that really survived the last 5 years duhh. Although the latest driver was available for download (WG311.v2-2007).
Shut down and install the PCI card, Restart.
With that proceedure Windows7 still failed to "discover new hardware - wireless network controler". And Netgear wifi configure utility continues to start then go off to lala land. Wasted effort.
2. Control panel, Hardware manager, properties of unrecognised network controler in PCI slot. from properties, click re-install driver. First choice is go ask microsoft. Not likely to happen if you do not have the wifi working. Searching for local machine driver totally failed to find anything in the "program files (x86)\netgear\wg311v2\" folder of any use.
Netgear wiki seemed to think Microsoft had a "few" drivers in their vualt. However, that is dependent on being able to connect to Mu$ for a looksee.
From one of the other machines here connected to my DSL with 10/100 cable into portal, I was totaly thwarted to find a list of drivers that may be downloaded from mu$ and copied to the machine with the lala lander netgear wifi card.
When the 5210F comes back from HP I will have to try something else. With the lacadaizical attitude at Netgear? Buying another card will not be an acceptable option. They have had months to prepair for win7.
In the meantime, I guess I will pull some wire through the attic and install an ethernet jack in the wall. I did not see anything really mouthwatering offered in the way of an 802.11n home portal (wanted adsl modem, firewall, 802.11.n, gigabit router in one package) so I guess I will make do and see if next wave of tec has their drawers hitched up before they hit the door.
one-shot :
I just installed Win 7 64bit today and I dual boot that with my Vista 64bit. I can't find any 64bit drivers for my Belkin Wireless N Network Adapter for Win 7. Only the Vista 64bit drivers and I thought they would work because other 64bit Vista drivers work for Win 7, but I guess not. Hopefully the drivers are out when Win 7 is officially released or I'll be on Vista 64 for a while longer.