Looking for SMC Vista drivers

[Winga]

I've got a few SMC wireless PCI cards which won't work with Vista.
The official site hasn't bothered to provide Vista drivers yet so I was hoping someone here knew of an alternative place where I could find one.

The particular device is a WLAN PCI Adapter model No. SMCWPCI-G part number 99-012084-454

[Thrax]

What is the chipset for the card?

[Winga]

Atheros

The markings on the chip is very hard to make out but it looks like:
AR2413A-00
B14596B
4904

[Thrax]

http://ud-pc.com/down/driver/2007-5-18/atheros_ar5005g_driver.htm

Supposedly these include support for the AR2413A chipset, and will work on Vista. I'll keep looking.

[Winga]

Driver worked perfectly Thanks :thumbsup:
Sorted in record time :rarr:

Now go get some sleep!

[Thrax]

I don't sleep. There are PCs to be fixed! Drivers to find! Issues to solve! Users to save!

[Winga]

Thrax just a bit of feedback on the driver you sourced for me. I swear it's on steroids or something. My signal strength across the network has gone from good to excellent and there is no delay opening folders or downloading files on the network, which I was experiencing using the actual SMC drivers that came with the cards.

I am so stoked. Thanks Man!!111

[kithylin]

"The folder you have selected does not contain a valid driver for Windows Vista 64-bit"

This driver does not work with 64-bit vista.

I know... in general it's bad forum etiquette to dig up old posts, but... this is the only one i can find about this chipset on the forums.

I have a "Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card" which is a PCI-based card for wireless-G. I know it's not the SMC card originally mentioned, but it has an Atheros chipset on it with the number "AR2413A-00" on it, so i'm assuming like other devices i have in the past, just find a driver for the chipset it's self and it should work, typically.

If ya can get any replies about this, i'd be interested in testing it :)
Also, going to keep searching the inter-webs and if i find anything that works i'll post here.

[kithylin]

SUCCESS!!

After A LOT of digging through google, i found some odd wireless card based on this same chipset, and the driver listed for this product here:

http://www.sweex.com/producten.php?sectie=&subsectie=&item=65&artikel=718&detail=d

WORKS on vista 64-bit for chipset "AR2413A-00"!!!

What you have to do, is goto device manager for the device, update driver, chose a driver from my computer, "have disk" and then browse to the folder.

Download the driver, extract it into a folder on like a usb flash drive or something, then browse to it in the have disk dialog.

I don't know if this driver is digitally signed, or not, because i have that driver signing BS disabled on my vista-64 computer.

Enjoy!