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I have a Google Search Appliance which is really just a Poweredge 2950 II. It's running Windows 2008R2 x64. I have a Linksys WMP600N PCI card installed in the riser.
Due to current temporary housing arrangment, wired connectivity is not possible. This is for a home lab, non-production system.
BIOS is up to date running v 2.7.0. I am running the most recent driver from Linksys, V3.2.7.0. These are the Windows 7 x64 drivers. The device manager shows the WiFi card as enabled, device is working properly.
The dual onboard NICs are disabled and I have checked all the items in the cards properties except IPv4. I have uninstalled, deleted the driver and reinstalled in Safe Mode.
In the Network Connections pane it shows the card as disabled. When I right click the adapter and choose Enable, a window pops up and says:
- Enabling
- Enabled
after which the Network Connection pane shows the adapter as still disabled. How can I get this adapter enabled and picking up WiFi?
Pangea
Posted 2012-07-15T21:19:24.190
Reputation: 372
Try seeing if the linksys wireless manager is interfering with the native wireless manager. – DrinkJavaCodeJava – 2012-07-15T21:29:27.690
I have not installed the Linksys wireless management, I only installed the driver through the Device Manager. – Pangea – 2012-07-15T21:43:00.393
Check this link http://superuser.com/questions/198696/wireless-adapter-wont-enable
– DrinkJavaCodeJava – 2012-07-15T21:45:04.380That link leads to the WLAN service which is not installed by default on Server 2008R2. After adding the 'Wireless LAN Service' feature the service is enabled and I can detect WiFi networks. Thanks. – Pangea – 2012-07-15T22:48:38.867
I found a solution, and it involves temporarily bridging the wireless and lan connections (then unbridging). See http://technopaideia.blogspot.com/2013/11/frustrating-but-ultimately-successful.html%EF%BB%BF
– None – 2013-11-27T18:34:40.653