USB adapter - no drivers

I have an actiontec USB adapter, but have lost the cd with the drivers on.
Have tried to download drivers, but once downloaded cannot open them.
Its an actiontec 802UIG-1 but the driver wont load saying i dont have the programme needed or something PRISMIOC.vxd PRISMA02.sys they were zipped, so tried to open them on this pc with winrar, but still cant open due to not having the correct progs. The utility has loaded ok but says drivers are not loaded so there for it will not work.

Any help please of maybe how i can get a copy of the drivers that are unzipped so they can be put on a flash pen and added to the pc that we are trying to load the USB adapter on for wireless internet, its an XP operating system. The only cd with drivers on i have are for the old Actiontec Router and wireless card for laptop - nither will work for the usb adapter.

Give this a try Linny , hope it works.

Thanks HT can open the utility file but the drivers 9X 2KXP still wont open saying they need PRISMIOC.vXD and PRISMA02.sys to open. plus the data2.cab files say either corrupt or unknown format

Try this:

Code:

http://www.actiontec.com/support/product_details.php?pid=52#soft

Its from the manufacturers website, contains an .iso image of the CD, so you can make another one to replace your lost CD , drivers in zip format, and a configuration utility.

With the downloaded iso and the zip file, it would be easier if you opened it with 7zip file manager, opens almost anything, even iso's.

Download:

Code:

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

You can download that program as the .exe itself or in a zip, but seeing as you already having problems opening a zip, just download the .exe and hopefully you will be good to go from there.

thanks ill try that

to no avail put all that on my pc but i still could not open those files i must be doing summit wrong so give up ! thanks for all your help anyways

Originally Posted by Linny40

to no avail put all that on my pc but i still could not open those files i must be doing summit wrong so give up ! thanks for all your help anyways

No, dont give up . Which of the files were you trying to open again, what are their formats, and what is your current operating system?

the driver files which were ending is vxd and sys im on xp

Hmm, what do you exactly mean by you cant open the files, is it where, your network adapter has been found, and your trying to direct the "found new hardware wizard" to the appropriate files, in this case one of them being ******.sys but the dialogue box is showing that you havent got no such file? (even when you can see it in its defaul location?)

I have loaded all the downloads onto a flash pen, put it in and tried to open the files called drivers.Problem is im trying to do this all on my pc and not the one my neighbour was tryin to set it up on. I downloaded the actiontec file. tried to open it then it said unzip with winzip ( which pc does not have) but it unzipped them to a files called 802UIG - that has 2 fiiles in - utility and driver, in the driver files is 2KXP and 9x - file 2KXP - AELUSWB2 ( security catalouge) then set up info, then PRISMA02 System file - ( has an icon with little coloured squares) X9 file - same files but then another file with 2 cogs and PRISMIOC.XPD (XPD in lower case) When i try to open the utility configeration it just comes up with winzip self extractor but not having winzip it wont unzip it

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It probably does not help the fact that as i said the pc it was meant to be used on is not mine, and has no internet connection so therefore cant download anything to it, all has to be done on anothrer pc and stored on a drive.
I wonder if the best thing is to contact actiontec and just ask if they can send the disk saying ive lost it etc.