Wirless Card or USB Adapter

Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I have
been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number F5D7050 )
will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one that will
searched the net but have come up blank

TIA

On Jan 1, 9:12 am, "sinner" <tonoavai...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I have
> been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number F5D7050 )
> will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one that will
> searched the net but have come up blank

Media Center Edition comes in two flavors. One is XP Home with a bunch
of marginal media applications that are best replaced with shareware
versions. The other is the older version which is the same crud on top
of XP Pro instead of Home. There's no reason your F5D7050 should not
work with either.

Let me guess. The salesman that just sold your the new machine is also
trying to sell you a new wireless device?

Actually no the salesman did nothing off the sort (which makes a nice
change) I already had a wireless network,. after many hours of trying to get
it working I gave up and spoke to Belkin directly who advised they don't
make drivers to suit and the product will not work with XP media center. I
did download most of the drivers on the website and chanced my arm but no
luck. I don't mind buying a new card or USB adapter I just want something
that will work and I figured someone on here maybe able to advise

TIA


"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
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>
> On Jan 1, 9:12 am, "sinner" <tonoavai...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I
>> have
>> been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number
>> F5D7050 )
>> will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one that will
>> searched the net but have come up blank
>
> Media Center Edition comes in two flavors. One is XP Home with a bunch
> of marginal media applications that are best replaced with shareware
> versions. The other is the older version which is the same crud on top
> of XP Pro instead of Home. There's no reason your F5D7050 should not
> work with either.
>
> Let me guess. The salesman that just sold your the new machine is also
> trying to sell you a new wireless device?
>

"sinner" <tonoavailuk@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>Actually no the salesman did nothing off the sort (which makes a nice
>change) I already had a wireless network,. after many hours of trying to get
>it working I gave up and spoke to Belkin directly who advised they don't
>make drivers to suit and the product will not work with XP media center. I
>did download most of the drivers on the website and chanced my arm but no
>luck. I don't mind buying a new card or USB adapter I just want something
>that will work and I figured someone on here maybe able to advise

Amazing. Guess #2. Belkin support couldn't figure out what was wrong
so they just blew you away with a "not supported" line of baloney. I
found nothing on their support web pile that suggests anything
specific to Media Edition.

I call to your attention any driver download site for literally any
wireless USB card. None that I have seen have a special driver for
Home, Pro, or Media Edition. They all list their drivers as for XP
which includes all the various XP mutations. While I have not had to
deal with your specific configuration, I'm fairly certain that's
nothing unique about Media Edition that would cause your install to
fail.


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>"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
>news:1167676392.901090.299920@s34g2000cwa.googleg roups.com...
>>
>> On Jan 1, 9:12 am, "sinner" <tonoavai...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I
>>> have
>>> been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number
>>> F5D7050 )
>>> will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one that will
>>> searched the net but have come up blank
>>
>> Media Center Edition comes in two flavors. One is XP Home with a bunch
>> of marginal media applications that are best replaced with shareware
>> versions. The other is the older version which is the same crud on top
>> of XP Pro instead of Home. There's no reason your F5D7050 should not
>> work with either.
>>
>> Let me guess. The salesman that just sold your the new machine is also
>> trying to sell you a new wireless device?
>>
>
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are you trying to use the utility for the adapter or the windows wireless
zero function?
I had a linksys usb adapter that would not work with the linksys software
but worked fine with the windows service.

"sinner" <tonoavailuk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:YI-dnRwElbiF3ATYnZ2dnUVZ8qaqnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk...
> Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I
> have been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number
> F5D7050 ) will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one
> that will searched the net but have come up blank
>
> TIA
>

I was letting the belkin software control things using the windows service
never occured to me (doh)

I'll try that and reply back to the group


"DavidT" <njt1955@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> are you trying to use the utility for the adapter or the windows wireless
> zero function?
> I had a linksys usb adapter that would not work with the linksys software
> but worked fine with the windows service.
>
> "sinner" <tonoavailuk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:YI-dnRwElbiF3ATYnZ2dnUVZ8qaqnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk...
>> Just got a new machine with windows XP media center edition on it and I
>> have been informed by belkin that my usb wireless adapter (model number
>> F5D7050 ) will not work with media center edition. Can anyone suggest one
>> that will searched the net but have come up blank
>>
>> TIA
>>
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