hey - i have this exact problem, i have tried your fix but i get the same problem as when i use the proper belikin driver - 'This device cannot start (code 10)' - this is really frustrating because its not a case of lazyness its a case of having had the card to long to take it back and being too poor to get a vista compatible one that drives me to use this.

any thoughts as i have literally just installed vista64 and without this wireless will not be able to go on the net and as such will have rendered my pc usless for what i got it for

chaz

I'm having the same exact problem. So far i've tried 6 different x64 drivers and none of them have worked. I'm using a linksys 54g card. Has anyone found a fix? I love how fast the x64 is, but if I have to go through all this sh**, then forget it.

Same problem, but with the f5d8000....
I wish belkin would just get with the picture and get some working vista drivers out there...

same problem again with the F5D7000 card. The belkin drivers are without a doubt, a pile of rubbish. Will be trying the Atheros one now. Thanks

I have a dlink DWL-G510 PCI wireless adapter. I've had the same "device cannot start" with the atheros driver, as well as 5 or 6 beta, dlink beta, and straight up hacked drivers.I have been screwing with this for weeks now and the system has never booted without the device having an error.The weird thing is this: at one point I restarted the computer and it came up without error and worked fine. It somehow magically started working after a non-related reboot.It worked but, the problem was a really low signal even when it should be full strength.The router is in the same room So I disconnected and reconnected a few times.

I eventually disabled the adapter thinking it might help. After disabling, it would not re-enable no matter how many times I clicked "enable". So I tried restarting the computer. Once back into windows, I checked the device manager and there was no trace of the hardware. No errors, no hardware at all. Windows refused to detect the card no matter what I tried. I was eventually able to get it back into device manager in an error state, only after a system restore.

I can understand why it didn't work but the real noodle baker is " What the hell made it start working in the first place?"

Thanks so much for the info!
I had just about given up on my Belkin card until I ran across your post. Chose the ATheros driver and worked perfectly!!!

Worked so well for me. Thanks for the help!

Be nice if we didn't have to guess and check like that, but what do you expect from hardware companies >

OK, Atheros driver worked on my 32-bit.
Although it's working I've been experiencing problem and the symptoms are just like driver issues problems, higher-than-XP latency, Latency spikes.
Still looking for the proper drive.

This really works. What I have is a system with 1.25 gigs of memory a 2.8 Pen4 processor and a Belkin f5d7000. I folled he directions and it worked so try it for your system.

My epxerience of the drivers for revision 7x of the card (based on a RTL8185L) from belkin themselves is that they don't work for the card. The driver installs, the device works under Vista X64, discovery of routers is possible but it wont connect to them regardless of signal strength or encryption type.

Makes me wish I had an earlier revision of the board like the Atheros, but not like I could open a pallet of them at PC World and choose

Anyone got any suggestions?

I bought my Belkin card from Walmart, I guess I got lucky getting an older version. I'm glad I was able to get mine working. You'd probably be better off getting a differnet card that is known to work with Vista; I mean that the manufacturer says it works with Vista.

My problem isn't so much getting the drivers/card to work. The driver I downloaded from Belkin for the fsd7000 worked fine. (I only got it this week)
The problem I have is that it acts like it drops connections even though it shows Good to Very Good signal. It is frustrating to download any files larger than 500kb. It's not like it is a long distance from the router (across the hall).
I'm hoping your Atheros driver will correct the issue.

i just got vista home premium and my D-link dwl-g510 doesnt work is says (code 10 cannot start) i have trid uninstalling it taking it out then istalling it then put it back in i says the same thing it worked with XP tho can anyone help me? THX

I had the same problem and downloaded the vista drives for a CNET CWP-854 wireless card this ralink software works perfectly.

www.belkin.com/.../

for everyone that has been having problems running their belkin on Vista, I followed the steps on this site and it worked out