OK. I posted the previous thread -- but replies don't show up. Its either locked or something. Specimen: stop focusing on the hacked wifi dongle. Its tangential to the story. Its how I got connectivity *after* Parallels broke my wifi drivers under bootcamp. I'm in bootcamp, win 7 typing on a hacky dongle because the apple airport/broadcomm drivers are gone. 1- I've been running Parallels (mac host, win 7 guest) for a year? works fine. 2- I bootcamped recently, a month ago? works fine - Yes, bootcamp wizard downloads the drivers and doesn't really make them available otherwise. 3- I just updated parallels 8 to current, today. VMs work fine 4- I thought I would take Parallels up on the option of VM'ing my bootcamp partition. It went fine. - VM works fine, same stuff as in the bootcamp. Thats nice BUT 5- Booting up under bootcamp, wifi doesn't work. Yes - I shutdown the VM before rebooting under Bootcamp. 6- So, I fine a usb-wifi dongle just to get connected. I'm in WINDOWS 7- No apple drivers to reinstall - only "how to hack it out of the mac installers" 8- Fought parallels support site - it suggests I call for such technical support (a pop-up) - it requires a problem ID from an app I do not currently have access to (i'm in the guest vm) - it offers online chat (thats a call, right?) - Nope, pay me to chat -- huh? There is no parallels running, I'm on native windows on hardware -- with missing drivers due to Parallels (I believe). 9- gave up, posted on forum 10- thread not allowing replies -- after some Specimen overly focuses on the fact I had to use a hacky wifi dongle to work around the breakage that occurred.
