If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other devices on this system. No wifi after upgrading from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 10 and Device Manager displayed the following message in the Device Properties dialog box, on the General tab, in the Device Status text box: "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. If it stops someone from getting as annoyed as me, then I've done a good thing
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I don't know, drivers aren't really my thing! I thought I'd post this just in case there are other people with similar antique machines lying around. Maybe the driver was installed all along and all I needed to do was reboot the machine in the first place.
getting bored I decided to reboot the machine and start looking for my USB adapter.Īnyway it rebooted, connected to my network and is running perfectly. I disabled the device, then enabled it - still nothing. Nothing much seemed to happen, but on checking Device Manager, the system indicated that the driver is installed but "the device failed to start". Wireless_18.11.0_De132.zip from this page: then ran the DPInst32.exe file inside the. Having just forced it to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, I noticed straight away that the wireless was not working (maybe that's why I didn't ever see the Microsoft upgrade option). I have an old Acer Aspire (32-bit) laptop with an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter from 2008.
This isn't a question, it's a solution that worked for me so I thought I would post it pre-emptively!