Tutorial - Make Your Nintendo Wifi USB Connector A SoftAP

grr... my belkin usb adapter is a NETWORK adapter... does it still work? dang it lol

 

Just go ahead and set it up as your open wifi connection

 

it says "no wireless lan card detected. the tray icon will be loaded once the card is inserted" when i open the asus control center

 

You'll have to use the belkin usb adapter own software as this hack is only for the nintendo as its a asus usb anyways.

 

I followed the video but it won't work for me, so can someone tell me what i need to uninstall to get the USB working as the normal USB again? Right now, when I try to install the Nintendo USB it fails ...

 

hi i cant open the asus control center im using windows vista ultimate its gives me some weird error how can i fix this ty

 

takumisan -

good luck, I have Vista HP and it just doesn't work, has something to do with the drivers I believe. Tried acouple times.

Maybe something with Compatiblilty or run as Admin...if you were able to actually install the drivers.

If you manage to get it working, post the work around would you?

 

yeah drivers worked just uninstalled the nintendo with your uninstaller then plug the connector in your pc then it will search for driver but cant find any and ask for the cd you can also locate the drivers yourself do that and go to the map with the modified driver that came with the pack on the first page wil take a while but it wil instal it but the you have to open the asus thingy but i get this error
The application failed to initialize properly (0x0000005). Click OK to terminate

 

Hmmm, I wasn't able to install drivers, it would hang up. Then if I removed adapter it would finish and tell me successful. I didn't have the problem with ASUS software on mine. Thats weird, both Vista and two different problems.

 

I'm sure that the drivers here will not work with vista go check asus for an update for vista you will find a exact looking connector there but with asus on it. Good Luck, I'm sure this is just 1 of the problems with Vista. I'll stick it out with xp untill microsoft gets it right!

 

damn cant find any update on the program can you give me a link if you can find one ty

 

I am having the same problem some of the others with XP x64 had, stuck on step 2.

1. Checked Add/Remove Programs, Nintendo's software isn't there.
2. Did a system-wide search for "Nintendo" and for "rt2500usb" - no files found except a couple videos with Nintendo in the title.
3. Go to device manager, plug in the USB adapter - it appears under "Other Drivers" not under "Network Adapters".
4. Try to install from a specific location, select the "Drivers" folder from the zip file, get this error:

The hardware was not installed because the wizard could not find the necessary software.

If a driver was provided, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based systems. If you do not have an appropriate driver, contact the device manufacturer.

5. Thought I'd try the other workaround mentioned, so I went to Add Hardware.
6. Selected "Yes, I have already connected the hardware" > "Add a new hardware device" > "Install the hardware that I manually select from a list" > "Network adapters"
7. The list only shows three manufacturers - Eicon, Microsoft, and Realtek. Buffalo is not listed.

Any ideas as to what else I can try? I think the real problem is that the device manager is picking it up as "Other" instead of "Network Adapter" . . . but I have no idea how to change that. :\ Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Before pluging in the connector install all the software as mentioned then insert the usb and this should work

 

Ok. I removed the connector and tried installing the ASUS software (I assume that's what you were referring to), and it installed OK, but it won't run the control panel as it can't connect to the wireless lan card. I assume this is since I still haven't got the driver working and no green light on the usb connector. Copied over the asus exes anyway, and tried to install the driver again - same error message.

Or did I misunderstand which software you were referring to?

 

go into device manager and make sure the connector in enabled

 

I've said this already but nobody answered could somebody PLEASE answer i really don't wanna go out and buy a $100 wireless router...

"plz help and post back as soon as you can
i don't have the same things as you, also in my local area connection advanced tab. all i have is windows firewall. and also whenever i try to start up the asus control center thing it says this word for word: "Unable to connect to the wireless lan card. The tray icon will be loaded once the card is inserted."

im almost 100 percent sure i did everything right you said in the guide "

 

Are you signed in as the administrator of the computer if not then thats more then likely your problem.

 

Yep, it's enabled. It has the yellow exclamation point to show that it's not installed though. First my printer, then this, I'm starting to regret getting XP x64 lol.

 

have you copy'd rt2500 driver over and overwrote the exiting file ?

 

Yes, I did - sorry, should have mentioned that with the other files. Oh - incidentally, there was nothing to overwrite. There was no rt2500usb file there before. I did have it in the right folder though.