Choose “Troubleshoot”, “Advanced options”, “Startup Settings”, then “Restart”. Hold down Shift on the keyboard and click “Reboot”. In the charms menu, go to Settings, then Power. Unfortunately, you run into cases like this where the vendor no longer supports their products and then when you try to install a 3rd party driver, Microsoft doesn’t want to let you. This isn’t such a bad idea, as maliciously hacked drivers can be very dangerous. Windows 8.1 is particularly adamant about not allowing any drivers to be installed that haven’t received the Microsoft official stamp of approval. The drivers have no installer, so we will need to go into Device Manager in order to manually install the drivers.īut there’s a big problem we need to resolve first.
This is the root of our problem, and why we need the unofficial drivers.Īfter you have downloaded the unofficial drivers, extract them to somewhere convenient (i.e. If you prefer using the Netgear utilities that come bundled with the official drivers, you can install the official Netgear drivers here, but you’ll notice that although the utilities install properly, the drivers themselves refuse to install. If something happens to your system, it’s your problem. These drivers have been briefly tested and seem to work just as well as the official drivers work on Vista/7 圆4, but stability is not guaranteed. Due to Netgear’s apathy, we have decided to make Windows 8.1 圆4 drivers available.ĭownload unofficial Netgear WG111v3 Windows 8.1 圆4 drivers. Does that mean the chipset is incompatible with Windows 8 or 8.1? NO!!! It simply means that Netgear was too lazy to port their legacy drivers to a modern OS. The last official revision of the drivers is located below:Īs you can see, development stopped at Windows 7 圆4. If you happen to be using an old WG111v3 USB WiFi adapter, you might be frustrated by the lack of driver support from Netgear.
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