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Originally Posted by .:4:.
Thats strange, the u in usb stands for universal.
The wifi usb adapter plugged in and installed the driver by itself. Which kind of makes sense as it was something to facilitate internet access to a machine without internet access. Then it was as simple as select network and enter password.
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Depends on the version of windows. I see mention of XP, and IIRC, XP required you to install the driver (either from disk or by downloading). Even then, some wifi chipsets didnt always play nice. I had a netgear wifi stick that didnt work with netgear's driver (because the stick was older and didnt have support in the latest windows version), but I was able to work out who the wifi chipset manufacturer was and was able to install one of their generic drivers.
USB itself can be flaky. I've had to try several ports before I found one that device would work from.