usb wifi adapter not working with Windows 7 64

[Jamesbeat]

This is weird.
I just got my new (to me) pc that I'm going to use in my cabinet, but I can't get my usb WiFi adapter to work with it.

The weird thing is, I actually got two pc's donated to my cause, and the adapter works fine with the other one.
I got the other one a few days ago, and I installed Windows 7 on it just to try things out while waiting for the one with better specs.
Once I got the Ethernet port working, I was able to plug in the WiFi adapter and Windows went online and found the driver.

On the machine I actually want to use, I did the exact same thing (even the same Windows installation disk) but when Windows goes online to find a driver for my WiFi adapter, it says that there isn't one available.

Why would two similarly spec'd pc's running the exact same installation of Windows 7 behave differently when the exact same WiFi adapter is plugged in?

I know this sounds trivial, but it's making setting up my cabinet a real ballache, because I have to physically plug it into my router, which is not near enough to my cabinet.

[DeLuSioNal29]

One word:  Microsoft  (You can't explain things sometimes, it just is what it is).

Why not manually download the driver for the USB WiFi Adapter?  Check on the computer that works for the model number in the Device Manager.  Then go to the manufacturer's site and download the driver.  Install it and you should be good.

DeL

[JDFan]

One word:  Microsoft  (You can't explain things sometimes, it just is what it is).

Why not manually download the driver for the USB WiFi Adapter?  Check on the computer that works for the model number in the Device Manager.  Then go to the manufacturer's site and download the driver.  Install it and you should be good.

DeL

^This or copy the driver off of the other machine.

[Jamesbeat]

How would I go about copying the driver from the other machine?

Pardon my n00biness, but I haven't used Windows on a personal machine since 2006.
I have to use it at work, but I don't install drivers etc on my work machine.

Fighting with Windows is fun in a perverse sort of way, it reminds me why I dropped it all those years ago.
It's kinda reassuring that it's just as craps as it was a decade ago

It's such a shame that there isn't more mame love in the Linux community. Linux would be perfect, because it is legal to distribute, so it has a lot of potential for ready-made pre-configured systems.

I have tried the ones that are available, but I have had to admit to myself that the Windows version of mame, or rather the associated frontends, utilities etc, are just better.

[JDFan]

Should be able to go onto the machine it is working on - go to Network and Internet - Network Connections - right click on the wireless Network connection - select properties - in the networking box click on configure - In the Network Adapter Properties box go to the driver tab and click Driver Details -- that will show the path and name of the driver.sys file that you need to copy - copy it and place it on the new system.

[Osirus23]

Why not go to the manufacturers website and download the driver?

[ark_ader]

Why not buy one that works for $5?

Really people,  is this hobby getting that boring? 

[Jamesbeat]

I got it working, thanks.

Shame I have a blank screen when I run Mame (see my other thread)