Okay, this is way out of topic but I want to share how to get the WMB54G music bridge (and probably also the Sondigo Sirocco) working in Windows 7.
The system used was a laptop with Windows 7 pro 64 bit and a WMB54G connecting on a wired network with firmware v2.18. UAC is set to minimum, all is done with an admin user.
I got several tips of the internet and blended them together. Here's what I did:
1) download the drivers from the linksys site (v1.3) and install it
2) open msconfig and uncheck the CMFlyWave application
3) open C:\Program Files (x86)\Linksys\WMB54G and set WMB54G.exe to compatibility mode Windows XP SP2 (or SP3). Do the same for cmas2ds.exe and CmFlywav.exe in the "Driver" directory.
4) run hdwwiz.exe and manually add the driver. Choose "Sound, video and game controllers" and point the driver path to C:\Program Files (x86)\Linksys\WMB54G\Driver. Install the WMB54G driver
5) make this batch file and put it in your startup folder:
ping localhost -n 5
start /b /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Linksys\WMB54G\Driver" cmas2ds.exe
ping localhost -n 2
start /b /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Linksys\WMB54G\Driver" cmflywav.exe
ping localhost -n 2
start /b /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\linksys\wmb54g" wmb54g.exe
exit
6) reboot
7) connect to the WMB54G with the utility
8) open the sound control panel and check if the playback device is set to Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge
9) enjoy your music
note: for 32 bit systems: drop the "(x86)" in the batch file and directory paths.
For Mac OSX users: The alpha driver that Sondigo offers works okay. Only when closing the program it crashes, but sound is ok.
Such a shame that Linksys is not yet providing a real Win7, Mac OSX and Linux driver.
Or at least open source the protocol used to stream the audio.
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Hi, I was so happy to see your post. I have been looking for some help on getting the wmb54g to run with a windows 7 laptop. Unfortunately, your instructions don't seem to work for me. Everythings runs as it should but the bridge connection utility doesn't see the music bridge. My config seems similar to yours - I am running it wired directly into my lan switch (wireless turned off).
I am able to connect to the bridge's web interface at 192.168.1.210 (default) and the setup seemed to run just fine.
Any other tips you can think of would be greatly appreciated.
I would be just as happy to get the music bridge running from a ubuntu laptop. Any help on that would be equally appreciated.
Thanks
Clueless
Thanks. W7 64, works great.
To Anon': would not work till Iunchecked CmFlywave in msconfig -> startup. Make sure. The utility has always been awful at finding (and good at loosing) the music bridge box itself so keep kicking it and you may have some luck.
Seems irresponsible of Linksys since the basic software obviously works. Some tweaks to their installer would probably be enough.
I had doubts that it would work on Win7. But eventually it did!
But be persistent, you have to get every detail right. And yes, Linksys and Sondigo (and Realtek?) are being very lazy about this: they just say: "we don't support it." Booooooh!!!!
I followed your steps exactly. However, after startup the computer doesn't find the music bridge with the scan. Any ideas what I should look at/fix?
did you put all .exe's in compatibility mode? Just run trought the whole C:\prog files\linksys directory...
I finally took the time to do this. Some notes for folks doing the same:
1) When you install the utility, run "Setup.exe" but DO NOT click on "Click Here To Start". Instead, click "Install Utility" on the lower left.
2) You may have go to "Control Panel" and then click on "Sound" and set your Music Bridge as the default Device. On my computer it says "Speakers" and "Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge Ready". Set that to "Default Device"
3) Once I set that as the default device, I was able to use the equalizer in the WMB54G Utility, but still couldn't control the volume or mute from there.
I'll work on figuring that out later, but for now, I'm happy to have the music on my computer playing back through the stereo again until I'm ready to spring for a full HTPC set-up.
Got bored already and played a little bit more, got the WMB54G Utility's Volume and Mute to work also. In "Program Files(x86)\Linksys\WMB54G" set "CmiInstallAudio.exe" to XP Compatibility Mode and check "Run As Administrator".
Works! THANK YOU!
Hi, please help me, I have a Music Bridge G linksys and I cant find the drivers and the media utility, the links web page dont work corretly,
plesa help me,
Sorry for my Englis,
Pablo Reinhardt mail:
pdrvc@hotmail.com
great! IT WORKS, I was about to dump it!
Thank you so much, I almost smashed it! Great post!
You instructions worked beautifully, and after so many months trying to find a solution to this problem, my WMB54G works at last, no thanks to Linksys. I followed your instructions exactly as you typed them, wrote the batch file exactly as you typed it, and saved it in the Startup folder. I was very surprised and happy to see the WMB54G had been detected at last.
Thank you very much for your help.
It works awesome!! I have been fighting with this thing around 1 year or more!
Thank VERY MUCH,
Mateus
Do you think is possible to install this on Linux ??
Thank you so much for sharing this fix for using the WMB54G with Windows 7. Too bad that a major corporation like Cisco / Linksys cannot help their loyal customers.
BTW Windows 7 update as of 4/20/2011 or 4/26/2011 breaks the fix. I don't know which one because I uninstalled back to 4/20.
Yes, it works great. THANK YOU! One extra if you're running Symantec SEP11 - you must disable the Network Threat Protection to allow the utility to see the bridge(s).
i have a win 7 32 bit
followed the directions and got it to works on 2 laptops (both connect to one music bridge)
thanks for making wmb54g awesome again
thanks for sharing!!
Have it working both on my Win7 x64 Notebook and my wife's MacBook with OS X 10.6.7
Shame Linksys/Cisco don't provide drivers for recent OS for this great product!
Also nice to know I'm not the only one on this planet who likes the idea of transfering audio via WiFi instead of additional hardware ;)
Hello, does anybody got a tip for the Sondigo Sirocco?
Sondigo is basically the same as the WMB, you can mix drivers!
Does anyone have the WMBg4G windows vista setup files? they are no longer on the Linksys wesite.
Just wanted to say how much I appreciate this information. The (old) WMB54G Linksys Music Bridge, and its software, are a pain in the @#$%. But when they work it is great.
Recently had a problem and had to re-load the Linksys software. Your web instructions saved the day, again.
- Tim
Thanks a bunch. I got this to work on 2 of 3 computers. Still struggling with number 3. Quite a painful configuration process. Couldn't have gotten the first two without your tutorial.
I am desperately looking for the 1.3 WMB54G drivers. I cannot find them anywhere. Cisco/Linksys has removed them from their website. It should be about 30mb. Does anyone have a good download link. Perhaps, at 30 mb you could even compress and email.
1.3 WMB54G V1.3 driver: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23515595/WMB54G%20Utility%20-%201.3.rar
enjoy!
I did it like descriped... It works a little bit. 2 seconds sound, 2 seconds silence, 2 seconds sound... LAN or WLAN is the same problem. Now I installed a virtual XP machine and from this VM I can play my music.
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