Impossible to activate my Vista wireless network card

I replaced a broken network PCI adapt with a Belkin USB wireless adapter.  I installed everything, restarted, and now my computer can't find any networks.  I open network connections and tried to repair.  When I 'Reset the wireless network adapter' it indicates a problem still exists. As it is said 'Belkin 54 g Wireless USB Network Adapter' knows driver or hardware related issues.  I've already updated the driver for the latest driver.  When I go into network connections and right click on the connection for Belkin 54 g wireless, I try to activate with no luck.  I also try to activate Device Manager with no luck.

I came to the conclusion there is that some conflicts causing the wireless network adapter to not 'activate' or activate.  What is the problem?

Hello Brent in Texas.

O what is the status of the wireless network adapter in Device Manager, you see yellow exclamations or the fringe?

The error code indicates that the drivers are not installed for your wireless network card.

You should try to uninstall and reinstall the drivers for your network card wireless instead of updating the drivers. Make sure that you remove the previous version of the driver and install the latest version.

1. click on start. In the start search box type "devmgmt.msc", and then press ENTER.
2. expand "network adapters, double-click the entry for the wireless network device.
3. click on the "Driver" tab, click "Uninstall".
4. click on start. In the start search box type "appwiz.cpl", and then press ENTER.
5 remove the entries related to the wireless network adapter.

Reinstall the driver with your driver CD. After installation, create the connection.

Alternatively, you can try to uninstall the driver from Device Manager, then go to the computer or the device factory site download the latest driver for your network card and install it.

You can read the article that will give you all the steps to troubleshoot network connectivity issues:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/936211

Thank you
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