Abit Airpace WiFi PCI-E card

Originally Posted by mull


Microdirect's price is a rip off...

Indeed!

I got mine delivered for just £20.67 - from Stuff-UK

Does it support WPA2 ?

I have one of these and it's just great. I have it in a Dell E521 in the pci-e x1 slot. The nearest AP is about 200 feet away tucked up under a concrete walkway. The sensitivity on this card is enough to pick up that whisper with all the RF from the apartments behind me and keep up 54mbs to boot. The Dell is running Vista home basic. I'm running Net Stumbler on this Vista rig with this card and have to say I'm very pleased with it.
For the price you really can't go wrong. I got mine from Intrex (www.intrex.com) here in North Carolina, USA.

works great under vista, and can now be had for under£10
WILL NOT WORK with windows 7, will lock up and blue screen as soon as you put the drivers in
and not much hope of getting new drivers.

Originally Posted by hrp8600
works great under vista, and can now be had for under £10
WILL NOT WORK with windows 7, will lock up and blue screen as soon as you put the drivers in
and not much hope of getting new drivers.

It does work under Windows 7, but you have to use the Atheros AR5006X driver instead of the now very dated Abit driver.

Nice Call Krik! Esp. since Abit doesn't exist any more :(

/takes a bit of abit notepad on his desk to wipe away the tears.

I have 4 of these babies. One in each PC and the other two in the loft for when they die.

They are utterly fantastic bits of kit, and the only wireless device I've had that isn't a right PITA.

Originally Posted by Krikkit
It does work under Windows 7, but you have to use the Atheros AR5006X driver instead of the now very dated Abit driver.

Hi. Very happy to have found this discussion because I have exactly the problem above.

Now either I can't find the right driver or I'm using the wrong one on Win7 (32) - I found it here

http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5006X&system=4

but when I try to install it Windows says it cannot find the driver software required - so presumably I have the wrong one. I'm trying the 32-bit Vista driver for the AR5006X - is this right?

Alternatively please point me to a location for the correct driver!

Thanks.


EDIT: Got it working using the XP driver!

Windows 7 comes with the driver for the AR5006X. When it asks for drivers, click to Browse for one, then click Let Me Pick, and it'll be in that list under network adapters -> Atheros Communications Inc. ;)

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
Nice Call Krik! Esp. since Abit doesn't exist any more :(

/takes a bit of abit notepad on his desk to wipe away the tears.

Me too, never forget how awesome abit was! I still get misty eyed thinking about my NF7-S...

Originally Posted by Mankz
They are utterly fantastic bits of kit, and the only wireless device I've had that isn't a right PITA.

Pretty much same here. The wife picked up a similar one from play.com, which is PCI, I reckon it's a similar/same chipset because it came with an identical wireless aerial to the abit one.

Thinking about it I might pick another one soon in case this one goes kaput.

Are they worth it compared to wireless N cards? whilst I don't have an N network, I was thinking about it as one would be nice to have eventually.

Then an equivalent will have come out for N I guess!

I'll stick with my wires for a while longer. I like stuff that just works, and both my laptops are bricked at the moment.

on the plus side, more hardware like this will start to push down prices on wired GbE hardware ;)