I'm thinking now that my next best bet will be to do a clean reinstall of win7 and hope that that helps but I'm not all that confident that it will.

My reason for upgrading was really to go to 64bit and get the maximum performance from my hardware but thats another story. I'm beginning to wish that I'd never upgraded the desktop to Win7 as everything up till then had worked fine under XP. I have now got a working crossover cable which allows me to share my files between my laptop and desktop - and it is also allowing me to use the (XP) laptop's wifi connection to connect to the internet. It is connecting to the router but - although it shows internet access - there is essentially no connection to the internet although it will occasionally connect. I am now having issues with my wireless network card giving connectivity problems. Some, on other forums, suggest setting the OHCI controller to the legacy driver but this has no effect whatsoever on my system. The new firewire card is turning up the same issues as the on-board firewire port - ie it is still not recognised although the OHCI controller appears to be properly installed. Just an update on how I'm getting on with this problem. The Firewire port worked fine when the computer had XP on it so its highly unlikely to be a faulty port. However, none of the workarounds - and I don't want to sound disrespectful or unthankful for the workaround suggestions guys - address the fundamental problem detailed in the first post - namely - why doesn't the Firewire adapter show up in the network connections (or indeed in the network adapters node in the device manager)? The Host Controller is there - and I downloaded one of these driver analysis tools and there is no hardware without a driver - although the tool did show some (unrelated) out of date drivers.īy the way, the firewire port is on-board.

I reckon the quickest workaround for now will be to use my external usb hard drive. I found that it started to transfer reasonably ok and then it just got slower and slower till it just about stopped and became basically unusable. īoth the desktop and the laptop are wifi to the router - thats why the wifi option is so slow.Īs you know, when both the connections are wifi, they will come down to the lowest common (stable) denominator (and then compound that with low signal strength due to the distance from the pcs to the router - 2 floors and a wall). Sorry Tony, I reckon I haven't have made the setup clear enough.

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