Hi, well I tried it, firstly there was no Vista specific driver, so I used
the XP one which it installed. Same old message though, 'cannot connect'.
Thanks for trying but I guess I'll wait until a non-beta version of the
driver comes out...
ChrisC
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> HI, thx for that, I have tried many drivers, from Asus to Realtek, however
> I'll give these a whirl...
> ChrisC
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>> "ChrisC" <cuke2u(nospam).hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Hi again, well I informed D-Link that some of you using Vista have had
>>> success with wireless security and this is the answer I got:
>>> "Thanks for that update. Could it be possible that your wireless card
>>> (specifically, the Vista drivers for it) does not support encryption?
>>> Driver support is also very important to consider. In any case, there
>>> isn't really any other support we can give you on this issue, since as
>>> we mentioned before, Vista is still in beta. Your computer is not able
>>> to connect to two different routers with any form of encryption, so
>>> logic would dictate that this is a computer issue."
>>> Well it isn't a computer issue as this computer will connect fine under
>>> XP, so that must leave driver issue...
>>> ChrisC
>>>
>>
>>
>> It could very well be a driver issue for that particular RTL8187
>> hardware. I was lucky since my Belkin F5D7010 had drivers built-in to
>> Vista. Now my old Linksys LNE100TX (v1) wired Ethernet card in my Vista
>> desktop would not work until I installed the latest drivers from Linksys.
>> Those were for XP by the way...
>>
>> You might try these drivers that I found after a quick search for your
>> RTL8187 device...They may be the same...
>>
>> http://www.majorgeeks.com/Realtek_RT...P_d5165.ht ml
>> http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NET...006-whql.shtml
>>
>> I recommend creating a restore point prior to installing any of these...
>>
>> Good luck...
>>
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