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Best Answer: The previous 'yes' answer is correct, it does indeed work under Wndows 7 Bootcamp, but the answer is a bit light on detail for a couple of the steps. Here's a fuller explanation: 1) download the driver per the instructions in the previous answer 2) unzip the drivers to a temporary folder on your hard drive 3) connect the adaptor to the thunderbolt port 4) reboot Windows Windows should automatically detect the adaptor now and install it. You may need to point the installer at the location where you unzipped the drivers. If Windows doesn't automatically install the device.
1) go to Start Control Panel Hardware & Sound and open Device Manager 2) click the name of your computer at the top of the device tree 3) click Action at the top of the window and choose Add Legacy Hardware 4) Click Next 5) Select 'Install hardware that I manually select.' 6) Choose Network Adaptors 7) Choose 'Have Disk' 8) Browse to the location of the drivers you unzipped earlier. 9) Click the.inf file 10) Select Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet from the list of drivers available 11) OK and install You may need to reboot again with the adaptor plugged into the Thunderbolt port to finish the job,. Answered by Benjamin C from London. I successfully installed the driver in Window 7 per Benjamin C's instructions.
You need support software (drivers) installed with Boot Camp to use Windows 10. In Apple Support Communities. Ask other users about this article. Double-click setup.exe to launch the Boot Camp drivers setup wizard. (The wizard automatically selects and installs the 32-bit or 64-bit drivers based on your Operating System.) Note: The Boot Camp drivers setup wizard only works in the Boot Camp–supported OSes: Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32-bit) (Boot.
Yes the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter does work in Windows 7 Boot Camp, however the SLEEP MODE is disabled after installing the driver. (I am using MacBookPro-Retina) Somehow Windows complains that the firmware does not support (S3) Sleep mode.
It's unreasonable for a notebook not to be able to quickly go into sleep mode and wake up from it. Hibernate just takes too long.
Apple, please respond to this issue. Answered by Allen W from Melbourne. Only half way- using either the Broadcom driver or the driver that installs within the package from Lion (BC4.0), the adapter will work so long as you boot Windows 7 fresh with the adapter installed. If you: 1) Insert the adapter after booting, 2) Unplug and attempt to re-insert the adapter without rebooting. The adapter does not work. Fairly useless for a laptop.
Use the USB-Ethernet adapter instead, its the same price although does limit to 100Mb. Answered by Sarkis K from Reno. Yes it will work SORT OF, if you have the corret drivers either put in place by the Bootcamp setup (where you include the drivers as part of Windows install) or if you just install once in Windows. BUT it wil never support Sleep mode - so it's completely useless as a laptop. I want to shut the lid and it enter Sleep - NOT hibernate. To get this you need to buy a USB to Ethernet adaptor. I have done just this today and bought one from Amazon which was £15 for USB3 to Gig Ethernet - made by Digitus.
WIndows 7 auto detects and installs drivers and now I have my Macbook Pro (retina) useful as a laptop again. Don't wait for Apple to update their Thunderbolt Windows 7 support to include S3 standby as I suspect it will be ages/never, just spend the £15 to do it vi USB:). Answered by K G. I have followed all the instructions here on my new MacBook Air, i7 and the ethernet gets up and going but I have no internet access for some reason on it. I was trying to sync my dropbox faster than it taking a week and use Gigabit Ethernet.
Disabling and enabling resulted in a massive slow down, then I shut down, which froze, then BSOD. Restarted and it's up and running fine, I am on the network. But no internet. I have a Gigabit switch with 8 ports so that is working, it's just not getting the internet from the ADSL router.
Has turned in to a real pain. Answered by Matthew A.
I found that booting my Macbook Air to OS X with the adapter attached, then shutting it down and booting the Windows 7 (Boot Camp) side of the hard drive retains the functionality of the adapter. No external driver install is necessary. If the adapter is unplugged from the Thunderbolt port (it's not hot-swappable), then the sequence of booting to OS X, closing, and booting Windows 7 must be repeated. This, of course, would only apply to those who have both operating systems installed. The disruption of the sleep mode is still the same issue as has been mentioned.
I'd really like to solve that one. Answered by Kim S from Miami.
.UPDATE. if you have Snow Leopard and want 64-bit Windows 7 but get a rejection from the installer, go here and read this tutorial: I can confirm it all works, including the Apple USB Ethernet device for Macbook Air users with no mucking around as per this blog post. If you don't have Snow Leopard, then read on: Ok I finally got my Air fully up and running with the gorgeous windows 7 (build 7057) in 64-bit no less. With a few tricks. This tutorial includes support for the infamous Apple USB Ethernet driver for 64-bit windows. By the way, you WILL need a CD/DVD drive that is supported on both operating systems.
In the case of the Air I recommend the excellent Apricorn portable CD/DVD-RW drive, which only needs a USB cable for power. Step 1: Preparation Boot your mac and click on spotlight. Enter 'boot camp assistant' and launch the application. Follow its instructions to partition your drive. I gave a larger partition to windows as it is my primary office software vehicle.
I also develop software for the platform and need the space. If you just want to play then give Windows 10GB or so. At some point, BCA (Boot Camp Assistant) will want you to insert your winodws 7 disk. Do so and the Mac will reboot. Step 2: Windows Installation Your DVD will gronk and the windows installation tool will start.
Select your boot camp partition and click on 'format' to apply NTFS. At this point you loose the title 'BOOTCAMP' for the partition but we will rename it later.
Answer the few questions and let the thing gronk away. At one point it will reboot. On the Air, this puts you back into the Mac OS, so you will want to restart the mac and hold the option key down when you hear the 'bong' and wait until it gives you boot partition options. Double-click on the Windows harddrive to launch back into the installation.
Its important not to click ont he Windows DVD drive, which will also be an option. Windows installation will continue and eventually allow you to log in. You will have a very basic GUI because it does not yet understand the mac hardware.
Step 3: The Mac Drivers for Windows While logged into windows, and before you do anything else, insert your Mac OSX installation CD. If an AutoPlay option comes up, do not launch setup.exe.
Instead, explore the CD and Enter it's bootcamp folder. Now we detour a bit for the sake of Windows 7. Enter the Drivers folder, then the Apple folder and you will find two.msi files at the bottom: BootCamp.msi and BootCamp64.msi.
32-bit users run the first, and 64-bit users the second. The Apple installation will take a while and occasionally ask for a security prompt. Also, during the graphics driver installation your display may suddenly update. Exper w622-dcx audio driver.
Next, locate the NVIDIA folder and run the nvidiachipset64.exe file (leave off the 64 for 32-bit windows). When prompted for which components to install, just check the NVIDIA SMBus and SMU drivers.
Once this process is concluded, reboot your Mac. Make sure to hold the option key down in order to select the windows harddrive. Step 4: Finalizing the Driver Installation You should have working wireless, keyboard (with backlight), and multitouch features, but we are not quite done yet. Now, click on the windows start orb and in the search field enter 'windows update'. Dclick on the tool to launch update.
Select all available updates (including the optional ones) and let windows do its thing. This will most likely find a newer NVIDIA windows driver.
Reboot if necessary. You may still not see aero effects.
Right-click on the desktop and select 'personalize'. Here, click on the 'landscape' theme because its my favorite:) This will also turn on the Aero graphical effects. Note that Apple provides a Boot Camp management tool in windows that is accessed (oddly enough) through the notification icon area of Windows in the far-right section of the taskbar. You may not see it unless you click on the little 'up' arrow. Their icon is a grey diamond. This tool will let you set a lot of apple driver specific features such as double-tap on the track pad.
Step 5: That pesky Apple USB Ethernet dongle Yeah, this is a bit tricky as there is no Vista boot camp driver for it. But there IS a driver from the boot camp community. If you have XP and 32-bit you can go to this site and try your luck: If you have Vista or Windows 7, we need to get the latest versions and make some INI file changes. First, download the driver files at this manufacturer site: 32-bit: 64-bit: Extract the zip file and locate the file Ax88722.inf.
Open it in notepad and apply the changes discussed at the end of this blog entry. Save and continue. Next, attach your USB ethernet if you have not done so. Launch device manager (start orb, search field, 'device manager'). Locate the lonely unknown device 'Apple USB Ethernet' and right-click it to select 'Update Driver Software'. Select 'Browse my computer for driver software' and in the file browser dialog select the folder of your recently modified.INI file and continue the wizard.
This should bring your Apple USB ethernet to life! Below is the.INI file change detail - Near the top, locate the line: USB.NTamd64 and add the following line:%USB200M.DeviceDesc% = USB200M.Ndi,USB VID05AC&PID1402 Next, locate the 'Driver parameters' comment block. Above this you want to add the following: USB200M.Ndi AddReg = AX88772.NT.Reg, AX88772A.Con.Reg Characteristics = 0x84 BusType = 15 CopyFiles = CopyFile.Sys.IfType = 6; IFTYPEETHERNETCSMACD.MediaType = 0; NdisMedium8023.PhysicalMediaType = 14; NdisPhysicalMedium8023 USB200M.Ndi.Services AddService = AX88772, 2, AX88772.Service, Common.EventLog Search at the end for a section called 'Localizable strings'. We want to modify the first group of line entries just after 'Strings' to be as follows: ASIX = 'Apple' USB200M.DiskName = 'Apple USB Ethernet Adapter CD' AX88772.DeviceDesc = 'ASIX AX88772 USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter' USB200M.DeviceDesc = 'Apple USB Ethernet Adapter' MSI.DeviceDesc = 'MSI USB Network Controller' AX88772.DisplayName = 'USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter'.
I`m having a problem installing to Macbook air. When I try to run the intalation of the bootcamp drivers, I get a message saying that this computer does not support the 64 bit version of windows. I tried installing the drives individually. Everyone installed (including the 2 related to the trackpad), but my trackpad is not recognizind multitouch (i.e.
2 finger scroll, and 2 finger + click for right click). Also the keybord backlight is not working.
Anyone knows a solution??? I searched everywhere. This seems so foreign to me, but i see that you know your way around a computer! Lol, im having a few problems and i was wondering if you'd be able to give me some helpful answers-to start: 1) I'm buying a macbook pro for my second yr of college and im not sure if these 'specs' are sufficient for the performance im looking for.4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB -250GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm OR 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200 rpm -NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics 2) The reason im unsure of what specs would be needed is because im considering buying PS CS4, for WINDOWS. but running it on Parallel or bootcamp; the problem-i might need the 64-bit.instead of dismembering my Mac, is it possible for me to just configure my mbp with some serious hardware to endure quality/speed performance with 64-bit prgrams like PS CS4? Heidi, as long as you have the RAM it will be fine for what you are describing.
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I hear from the reviews that VMWare Fusion has taken the mantle from Parallels, though, and has the new advantage of being able to run the Windows programs right in your Mac environment, just a bit of a smoother level of integration, and can also let your Windows 'virtual computer' boot solo in boot camp (for higher performance, ideal for Photoshop etc) or from within Mac OS. RAM is the one asset that both OSes will be hogging, though, but 4GB is the right amount. CS4 can run on less than 2 gigs.
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I wonder why you would want to buy the Windows version, though. There is very little (if any) advantage to doing it that way, but an awful lot of added overhead. You're much better off just getting the Mac version.
With the student discount you can get it right from Adobe.com for $299. YGBKY: Nice post. I just bought a MB Pro 13 incher and Bootcamp'd Windowz 7 on it, The Office Suite including Outlook and ACT! CRM manager that runs SQL. It all works and runs FAST and of course looks amazing on the screen.
Issues I've had which forced me to not use that and continue using my Lenovo X61 for all those windows apps: -sound is so low that you can't hear it.Touch Pad is so quirky it's frustratingly basically unusable. I gave it like three days to see if I could adjust but it's a SPAZ. If I can get those two fixed via drivers, I'll switch back. I dont have the mac disk, but so far I've been able to install literally everything via 3rd party software and workarounds.
For the mouse what I did is downloaded a program called 'glovepie' which allows you to use an easy GUI (script writer) to mess with any and all input devices on your computer. I simply typed in 'keyboard.ctrl and mouse.leftbutton = mouse.rightbutton' meaning anytime you hold down control and click, it will right click. I really wish I could figure out how to program the bottom part of my trackpad as a deadzone though.