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A7000 Windows Drivers, not the installer
Hey there,
Trying to install Windows 11, but it needs a network connection to go. I am nightmarishly aware that the driver page here exists, but that is an installer package that assumes Windows is already installed and running. Extracting the contents of the installer using 7zip does not help; the driver files are encoded into the installer file.
I need the actual raw driver files that Windows can recognize so I can get this install going. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Yes! I'm having the exact same problem. It's infuriating.
I even ran the installer package on a different computer, used the hardware properties to find the supposed driver that was installed, put that file on a USB and put the USB into my new Win 11 system, but that system doesn't recognize the .sys file as a driver. It seems to want a .inf file.
Did you find a solution? Or did you just buy a new WiFi adapter from a manufacturer that offers actual raw driver files?