Using a USB or PCMCIA card standard instead of inside 4965AGN wireless


OK so I bought a Linksys WPC100 which is a map of connection Wi - Fi G CardBus PCMCIA cardbus.

It's interesting in the local BestBuy the majority of (USB and PCMCIA) adapters does not list Vista as one of the systems they support. Also strangely even those with a Vista Certified logo the majority does not list Vista as one of their supported operating systems. Clearly something non-intuitive to be certified Vista or the specifications of the box are usually not correct. I got the list of drivers from the Linksys web site with me and it didn't correlate even as a subset or a superset with certification or registration with the operating system as support of Vista. In fact not a single adapter had all three factors, a driver available on the linksys website, certification and operating system listed as supported. Go to this by now mild frustration I bet on the WPC100. The driver on the disk installed and used the Vista Business card form.

When the computer is started with the installed card (I did not test the behavior with the night before and sleep or insertion during execution is enough for the moment to say) then the map appears as a second wireless adapter. Connection Manager indicates that the integrated map of AGN is either disabled by the switch hardware or BIOS and Connection Manager does not work. It's OK. At least we know where we are and the connections are not visible by Vista is from the PCMCIA card.

Unfortunately, problems with the access point has continued so this whole exercise has shown me is that the problem is related to using Vista with the access point and not the hardware or driver (unless the problem is common to both drivers). Thus, one step forward and one step backward. As usual, the real cause of our time wasting is Vista, but for those who have a reason to try, you can install a separate adapter, it's just that you can not use Connection Manager to switch between them on the basis for example, location.

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