D-Link DWA 160 and Windows 7

How is it unethical to not provide free support forever? When you got the device drivers were provided, and anything beyond that was gravy. In other words, be grateful the XP drivers worked, so you didn't have to buy a more current device.

Please try not to be such an asshole next time.

My previous laptop was on its last legs with a broken hinge and I knew it would need to be replaced in the near future. By which time Win7 was already on new machines.

The DWA 160 is still on the shelves.

Both Microsoft and D-Link say it supports Win7.

You take pot luck when you buy it whether it will install cleanly (Ralink) or not (Atheros).

They are selling a non-current device in the same box as a current one.

Please try not to be such an asshole next time.

So anyone that doesn't agree with you is an "asshole"?

Irrelevant.

Irrelevant. Your router is not on the shelves.

Not true.

Not true.

That the model number is the same is irrelevant. What matters is what you were promised when you bought it. Not what might happen down the road. Get a grip.

Please take your own advice.

Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings, Christopher A. Lee chose the tried and tested strategy of:

I haven't had any problems with Atheros and Ralink devices in linux.

Where did I say that, liar who puts words they didn't say into people's mouths?

No, liar. It's why you are an asshole. The device is sold as current for Windows 7.

Yes it is, liar.

It's a Netgear WNDR 3700.

More lies.

More lies.

Now so?

Get a brain.

What part of "purchased to work as advertised to connect both Vista and Win7 to a WNDR3700" are you pretending you don't understand?

Oh, the irony.

Linux is different. You have to be a bit of a hacker and there is more information available as well as help from people who've hacked it.

Heck, you can even go to the source code which is what I was used to on the IBM mainframes before they went object code only.

My gripe is that I bought a dual-band adapter to go with Windows 7 because my Vista laptop was close to dying. The hinge had broken and it was only a matter of time before the screen detached itself completely. Windows 7 was already on all the new PCs in the stores and I knew the replacement would have it.

My router was new. When the previous one died I got a dual band WNDR

When I bought a new laptop I reasonably expected the wireless adapter I had just bought to work. After all both the Microsoft Win7 compatibility and D-Link web sites said it was supported.

I'm pleased to inform you that you've earned a coveted spot in my twit filter. It's not easy -- posts have to be all crap and no value -- but you've cleared the bar with room to spare -- congratulations!

There weren't any apart from your own.

The hypocrite dishonestly snipped his lies starting with his gratuitous, un-necessary unprovoked nastiness.