wireless adapter for vista??

turtle3 · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:06

Im looking for a wireless usb adapter that is known to work with vista, has anyone had any luck getting one to work?? The 2 I have and tried do not have drivers that are supported in vista.. There was a vista driver compatability list doing the rounds but I lost it,, anyone still have the link

Trigger · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:11

turtle3 said:
Im looking for a wireless usb adapter that is known to work with vista, has anyone had any luck getting one to work?? The 2 I have and tried do not have drivers that are supported in vista.. There was a vista driver compatability list doing the rounds but I lost it,, anyone still have the link

From articles that I've read in magazines and on the web, USB wireless devices do not work with Vista

AFAIK, PCI wireless devices are fine and wired ethernet is fine as well

turtle3 · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:16

Trigger said:
From articles that I've read in magazines and on the web, USB wireless devices do not work with Vista AFAIK, PCI wireless devices are fine and wired ethernet is fine as well

I have read a few people getting wireless working with the same key I have, but the way they done it seems more luck than anything else, I tried the same things but no joy for me,, I seemed to get so close aswell, vista recognised my wireless adapter and also installed the driver but then it just dont respond after that

can you get PCI cards to work on desktops?? I thought they are laptop only??

Trigger · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:28

Nope, laptops use PCMCIA. Look Here

From what I've been told they seem to work better but it's just luck with which one you get I think and I don't have a clue which one's work and which one's don't unfortunatley- all my desktop's are wired

PCI wireless cards are much better than USB attachments any day though really so it would be a good investment either way :cool:

turtle3 · 15 Jun 2006 at 21:33

Trigger said:
Nope, laptops use PCMCIA. Look Here From what I've been told they seem to work better but it's just luck with which one you get I think and I don't have a clue which one's work and which one's don't unfortunatley- all my desktop's are wired PCI wireless cards are much better than USB attachments any day though really so it would be a good investment either way

Ahhh,,Of course PCI :rolleyes:

, I always just called them internal wireless adapters, lol, Excellent, just got to try and find out a compatable one now or find someone whos got one working

wish I could find that vista compat list

Thanks

Meatball · 16 Jun 2006 at 13:52

Good memories of netsend fun, hehe! In my school I used to send them to people in my class with things like "I'm watching you" and "I love you shirt/hair" lol. I done it to this six former once saying "what a cool bag you have, where did you get it?" she immediately started looking around it was hard to keep in the laughter lol

. Shame they've blocked it now

Ozymandias · 16 Jun 2006 at 14:26

My USB 3COM 3CRUSB10075 was identified with no problem, configured and working fine with Vista.

turtle3 · 16 Jun 2006 at 19:06

Ozymandias said:
My USB 3COM 3CRUSB10075 was identified with no problem, configured and working fine with Vista.

Cool

is that the office connect line of usb adapters?? Did it just identify and install similar to xp does or did you need to run the drivers from a disc?? also what vista are you running 32 or 64?? I may get one of these if its definately gonna work

lol I dont suppose i will really use vista that much Its just bugging me and ive got to get it running,,

Ozymandias · 16 Jun 2006 at 19:35

turtle3 said:
Cool is that the office connect line of usb adapters?? Did it just identify and install similar to xp does or did you need to run the drivers from a disc?? also what vista are you running 32 or 64?? I may get one of these if its definately gonna work lol I dont suppose i will really use vista that much Its just bugging me and ive got to get it running,,

Yes it's the Office Connect line of USB adapters - I'm running 32 bit Vista. I plugged it in when connected to the Internet via cable ethernet and the drivers installed automatically with no fuss. It even realised I was using USB 1.1 (on an old test machine) and limited the connection to 11b. It accepted my huge WPA key of random characters and away it went.

turtle3 · 16 Jun 2006 at 19:41

Ozymandias said:
Yes it's the Office Connect line of USB adapters - I'm running 32 bit Vista. I plugged it in when connected to the Internet via cable ethernet and the drivers installed automatically with no fuss. It even realised I was using USB 1.1 (on an old test machine) and limited the connection to 11b. It accepted my huge WPA key of random characters and away it went.

I think im going to try the 32bit version before I commit to buying new hardware,, seems that theres more chance of getting drivers working then. Did you run update at all before you plugged your usb adapter in? I think my wireless key would work if I run the update as its listed as supported with a driver update but I cant run the update with no connection

thanks

Ozymandias · 16 Jun 2006 at 21:00

turtle3 said:
I think im going to try the 32bit version before I commit to buying new hardware,, seems that theres more chance of getting drivers working then. Did you run update at all before you plugged your usb adapter in? I think my wireless key would work if I run the update as its listed as supported with a driver update but I cant run the update with no connection

thanks

I installed Vista with the Internet connected via an ethernet cable beyond that I didn't do a manual update.

-Mike- · 16 Jun 2006 at 21:46

Hi,

My linksys HU200 worked fine with vista, it works better with the win xp that I've gone back to though

Jimbo · 16 Jun 2006 at 22:06

My Belkin card crashes or locks up in vista.