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30-11-08, 05:32 PM
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Calling all Vista Experts
I thought I would ask for the help of the .org with a small, but irritating problem we have with Mrs BP's laptop.
It has Vista Home edition on BT internet wireless broadband. Nearly every time we try to open Explorer, it fails to find the network. We have to uninstall the Dell mini wifi card (Wireless 1390 mini card), let it reinstall after scanning for new devices, and connect back to our network. WHY! Apart from the obvious answers about Vista being carp, does anyone know how to get it to work every time? Much love, Pete
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30-11-08, 05:34 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
LOL!
Mine does this too  Fine on Xp, tis vista. Interestingly "Repair Network Connection" unlike XP doesn't restart the network card, so need to do it by hand and then it connects, since I'm on XP/Ubuntu on my main PC I can't be bothered to find a solution lol. |
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30-11-08, 05:45 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
You tried downloading the latest drivers from the web?
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30-11-08, 05:45 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
Pete, have you tried using the XP driver for the wireless card in Vista? It will work, and won't complain about it. It's apparently more stable than the Vista driver.
EDIT: Revision A17 of the driver works appearently - see the Dell website.
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30-11-08, 06:32 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
i find vista premium alot better than home, why is this tho? whats different about the 2?
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30-11-08, 06:36 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
Mine is the same, I have to disconnect and reconnect ... bag of poo if you ask me !!
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30-11-08, 07:32 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
Wipe it!
either install XP, or if your'e cool Ubuntu... |
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30-11-08, 09:02 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
my bt is ok wid vista
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30-11-08, 09:28 PM
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Re: Calling all Vista Experts
have you tried using firefox?
I was working at st james' park on a load of workshop sessions and we had serious trouble with all the vista laptops - none of them would find the network, then when they did find and connect to the network, they would refuse to show the ISP login splash page and instead displayed something like "Unable to connect to network"... turned out it was some kind of issue with the security certificates - the xp laptops had similar trouble but seemed to fix alot quicker. Then, I tried firefox on one of them - came up with the same security issue but gave the option "ADD AN EXCEPTION" which let us straight on to the network and accompanying webpages.... cue me running round st james park with firefox on a memory stick installing it to all the laptops. If it doesnt work, get rid of vista
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