Desmond said:
Hi I have read the review Paul posted at the bottom of his reply. I am having this difficulty. and the revews do not paint a pretty picture. I am confused with what two of you have said to get it working.
Taken from that last link .....
SlickRick
9/18/2010 9:42:47 PM
However after
reading several reviews here on Newegg, I went to the RaLink website and
downloaded the RT 2870 driver
How do I get that driver? AND
Brianod
8/30/2010 9:05:31 PMhis came with firmware 1.50 (rev B Adapter)
but Dlink says that's no good for Win 7 64. Had to go to
Dlink and download 1.60
I have searched for updated drivers.
I did find one claiming to do the job. DWA-140_B2_FW_v1.71s0062.zip
This has drivers for Vistax64, Vistax86, Win7x64, Win7x86, WinXPX64 ans WinXPx86_Win2K. plus a standard setup.exe.
I tried that and it made no diffrence.
D-Link do not apear to have an email support and the phone number is 10p ber minute.
Any help on this driver 1.60?
Desmond.
If I was doing this, the first thing I'd need to do, is verify it really
is based on an RT2870. As I indicated, the DWA-140 has existed for
several years, which is a long time for an adapter, and implies
there are several revisions. I would want to use my utilities to
tell what kind of chipset it is first.
This is an example of a link for Ralinktech. If you have a USB adapter,
that's the driver at the top of the list. Make sure the chip number
and the interface type are correct, before downloading.
http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/support.php?sn=500
When I tried downloading, what I got was this 30,769,885 byte file.
It appears to be packed "Chinese style", not a good sign. Like
some of those webcam drivers I don't trust. I can't open this with
7ZIP, because they used a packer.
IS_AP_STA_RT2870_D-3.2.9.0_VA-3.2.9.0_W7-3.2.9.0_RU-4.1.7.0_AU-4.1.3.0_042412_1.5.19.0WP_Free.exe
This is the AV scan from a week ago. It's clean.
https://www.virustotal.com/file/d78...d93930250f503f7c5961f842577e27e2aba/analysis/
I use Virustotal sometimes, for the "Additional Information" tab.
This is what it shows for the download.
"TrID
DirectShow filter (45.2%)
Windows OCX File (27.7%)
Win32 Executable MS Visual C++ (generic) (8.4%)
UPX compressed Win32 Executable (6.8%) <---
Win32 EXE Yoda's Crypter (5.9%) <---
PEiD packer identifier
Armadillo v1.71" <---
So it's chock full of goodness.
Just for the record, a 30MB download is totally unnecessary for a
Wifi device. An NDIS style driver, would probably be a fraction of that.
If I check the unofficial list of USB entries, this is what is available
for your adapter. So the adapters are made with more than one chipset.
Because there are only unofficial lists for this sort of thing,
we can't be sure the list is complete. But at least this shows, more
than one chipset is used.
07d1 D-Link System
3c09 DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B1) [Ralink RT2870]
3c0a DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT3072]
When the installer is running, these are some of the files it uses.
(I checked this in Ubuntu, using WINE.)
1168 2006-05-17 00:58 default.pal
86880 2010-12-31 10:07 devcon64.exe
83296 2010-12-31 10:04 devcon.exe
890 2011-03-14 15:20 DisplaybyHWID.ini
39 2012-04-24 17:45 FontData.ini
11311 2011-10-12 16:05 HWID.ini
102400 2011-01-20 20:44 InstAPI.dll
102832 2006-05-18 00:19 _IsRes.dll
208304 2007-04-05 14:37 isrt.dll
12288 2012-04-24 17:45 _ISUser.dll
4392 2011-03-31 10:24 License_JP.txt
3026 2011-03-31 10:22 License_SC.txt
3026 2011-03-31 10:24 License_TC.txt
6708 2011-03-31 10:40 License.txt
354870 2012-04-24 17:45 setup.inx
5632 2012-04-24 17:45 StringTable-0009-English.ips
The "devcon" (that's actually a Microsoft file) can be used to list
hardware in the computer, from the command line. That could be
what they're using to check the USB ID of the wifi adapter.
The "devcon64" is the 64 bit version, which is a bit harder
to locate (not available for immediate download from Microsoft,
has to be extracted from a CD sized download).
Before downloading the RalinkTech installer, you can get a copy
of "devcon" from here. Only the 32 bit version works. The IA64
version is not for your PC (it's for Itanium). (Maybe some
other utility could do this in a more friendly way.)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272
From the command line, you place the devcon.exe file in the
current working directory, and use a command like this:
devcon hwids * > myhwids.txt
Then, open "myhwids.txt" file with a text editor. Now, the following
are all the entries listed for D-Link, in that RalinkTech download.
This list is extracted from "HWID.ini". Not all of these will be
your adapter, but this is to give some idea how many D-Link designs
use those two chipsets.
[RT2870]
DeviceID_7 =USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C09
DeviceID_37=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C11
DeviceID_44=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C13
[RT3070]
DeviceID_21=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C0A
DeviceID_27=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C0B
DeviceID_34=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C0D
DeviceID_35=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C0E
DeviceID_50=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C0F
DeviceID_52=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C15
DeviceID_71=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C16
DeviceID_92=USB\VID_07D1&PID_3C17
The other thing to note there, is the Wifi adapter doesn't use an
RalinkTech ID number, it uses D-Link, meaning it's possible for
a Wifi adapter to be "disguised". I don't like this practice. Instead,
they should be using a SUBSYS number to identify the designs.
The driver install, includes a Ralink WLAN Utility, which is pictured here.
http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/asuswl167g/info/Asus WL-167G review1_files/image042.jpg
Anyway, that's the RalinkTech driver.
Have fun,
Paul
