Philips SNU6500 USB Network Adapter / Driver install help

[Ciaron]

Hi,

so i recently brought a SNU6500 wireless adapter from philips only to find out it doesnt support vista :O now ive had a look around and found out that a good amount of people have got it to work and ive seen 2 ways to make it work but unfortunately failed because of one damn reason

vista knows the drivers are for XP etc and wont install them but if i get them to install it will apparently work

so how can i install the XP drivers so it will recognise it properly so i can connect to the internet.

To sum up how can i install the XP drivers while using Windows home premium 64bit
and just so you know these are the drivers - Philips Support - SNU6500/00

 

[johooh]

Hi!

I have the exact same problem as Ciaron, I've tried the two solutions that worked for previous guys... Still it won't work... I have really no idea what to do and that is why I'm asking for help here in this forum.:huh::huh::huh:

 

[johooh]

I just thought that I should mention that Philips says that it is not compatible with Vista and it's only weird that it worked for other ppl... Im going to buy a new USB network adapter and I suggest that you do the same Ciaron, if someone got it to work they must have Vista 32-bit...

 

[roy69]

found a possible solution on another web site, I do not know if this will work as I do not have the adapotor.
Philips SNU6500 Wireless Network Adapter - Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums - Vistaheads

 

[johooh]

Well thanks for answer, but I saw the same reply in this forum and tried it... didnt work There was someone else who said he just opened the device manager and installed it there somehow... did as he said but it didnt work either... Anyway, Im buying a new better adapter today

Thanks! I suggest you close down this thread? :P
I'm off!

 

[Kavster89]

BTW SUCESSS!!!!!!!!!!!! I FINALLY GOT THE BUGGER WORKING!!!!!!!!>>>>>:D

Simple as just going into the shortcut properties, changing compatibility to windows XP sp2 and it works...fine in fact!!!

Happy Computing!!!!

Kav

 

[roy69]

Well thanks for answer, but I saw the same reply in this forum and tried it... didnt work There was someone else who said he just opened the device manager and installed it there somehow... did as he said but it didnt work either... Anyway, Im buying a new better adapter today

Thanks! I suggest you close down this thread? :P
I'm off!

First you hijack a thred, then try to get it closed.