Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hardware. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2009

Edimax 7318USg (USB) on Windows Server 2003 (Win2K3)

How to modify a driver's INF file to work with different hardware...

1. Inserted the USB adapter
2. Went to Device Manager, Right Clicked on Device with Yellow Exclamation, Properties
3. 'Details' tab -> 'Device Instance Id' -> Made a note of 'VID_148F&PID_2573'
4. Downloaded Driver for D-Link WUA-1340 for Win2k/XP/Vista (ver 1.3 - 20-9-07)
5. Extracted the zip file
6. Went into Drivers\WinXP_2K_9X\ folder
7. Opened Dr71WU.inf
8. Replaced every instance of 'VID_07D1&PID_3C03' with 'VID_148F&PID_2573'
9. Right clicked on yello exclamation, "Update Driver', pointed it at Drivers\WinXP_2K_9X\ folder
10. Associated with my network
11. Feel very pleased with myself...