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.
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.