The new adapter MiniPort Virtual Wifi in Win 7 stops at other Wifi adapters work?

I'm having problems to make a long-term wifi adapter Range to connect on the computers that have the adapter MiniPort virtual Wifi under Win 7.

It would seem that the MiniPort adapter only runs if the wifi adapter installed on the PC is compatible with this new virtual feature. I have two laptops that have adapters compatible wifi and show three wireless network adapters; internally, the virtual MiniPort and the long range Atheros (AR5007UG Chipset).

The Atheros adapter seems to be installed correctly in Device Manager and network connections, but is not listed as Wireless Network Connection 3 in the window "connection to" that appears when you click the Wifi icon in the taskbar.

The long range of Atheros adapter works very well and is correctly listed in the window "connection to" on other Win 7 systems that do not have the running virtual MiniPort adapter.

If someone has had this problem and it is possible that the MiniPort adapter stops adapters not compatible wifi to connect to a wireless network when it is installed? It is possible to disable the MiniPort adapter and get my long distance adapter Atheros AR5007UG also works on these two PC?

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See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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