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Certified for Windows Vista my a..
Hi there,
I came home from the store today having bought a USB network adapter from Linksys (WUSB300N). I had specificly looked for the "Certified for Windows Vista" to ensure that I wouldn't find myself... writing here at least. Now. The installation of the product worked fine and I found the network to be ok to begin with. The fact was that it wasn't and after a while it shut down completely. I could reach the network if I kept reconnecting. Now I went for Linksys homepage and their online support. The techie at Linksys was incredible sorry for the inconvenience but there are no drivers for Windows Vista _64-bit_! My question is. How come Linksys/Cisco can print your "Certified for Windows Vista" and your logo on a product that doesn't provide drivers for the operating system? (Live update doesn't find any new drivers either) "... That's because only Certified for Windows Vista software and devices have undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security" Is that really what's going on or are you trying to sell Vista compability on a sticker? -- //Bionk |
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Certified for Windows Vista my a..
uninstall whatever software you installed from Linksys. go into
device manager and delete the USB NIC. right click, and make sure to let it remove drivers. shut down the machine. turn it back on with the USB adapter attached and with a WIRED connection to the Internet. Use Windows Update to search for a driver if it does not get pulled down automatically. On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:34:00 -0800, Bionk wrote: Hi there, I came home from the store today having bought a USB network adapter from Linksys (WUSB300N). I had specificly looked for the "Certified for Windows Vista" to ensure that I wouldn't find myself... writing here at least. Now. The installation of the product worked fine and I found the network to be ok to begin with. The fact was that it wasn't and after a while it shut down completely. I could reach the network if I kept reconnecting. Now I went for Linksys homepage and their online support. The techie at Linksys was incredible sorry for the inconvenience but there are no drivers for Windows Vista _64-bit_! My question is. How come Linksys/Cisco can print your "Certified for Windows Vista" and your logo on a product that doesn't provide drivers for the operating system? (Live update doesn't find any new drivers either) "... That's because only Certified for Windows Vista software and devices have undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security" Is that really what's going on or are you trying to sell Vista compability on a sticker? -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Certified for Windows Vista my a..
Welcome to the world of Vista x64, its incredable that so many vendors claim
to be Vista compatable, it should say Vista x86 compatable. I have an Epson scanner, a mobile phone and various software apps all proporting to be Vista compatable, and yes, they are, for Vista x86. Most of the x64 drivers that I am using now have only appeared in the last 6 months, I bought a Vista certified motherboard with a specific x64 AM2 processor socket, it came without x64 drivers and the bios had to be flashed to accept 64 bit processors. The vendors are just not interested in spending time and money supporting x64 and won't until they have to, give it another 4-5 years or until the next new range/generation of their products come out. I have been running Vista x64 since beta 2 and have learnt to live with the argro, thankfully I have more than one machine, so any serious work can be done on XP. The release of Vista was a license to print money for most vendors so there was no incentive to support existing technology let alone future strains of it. Oh, XP x64 is no better, still very quirky. "Bionk" wrote in message ... Hi there, I came home from the store today having bought a USB network adapter from Linksys (WUSB300N). I had specificly looked for the "Certified for Windows Vista" to ensure that I wouldn't find myself... writing here at least. Now. The installation of the product worked fine and I found the network to be ok to begin with. The fact was that it wasn't and after a while it shut down completely. I could reach the network if I kept reconnecting. Now I went for Linksys homepage and their online support. The techie at Linksys was incredible sorry for the inconvenience but there are no drivers for Windows Vista _64-bit_! My question is. How come Linksys/Cisco can print your "Certified for Windows Vista" and your logo on a product that doesn't provide drivers for the operating system? (Live update doesn't find any new drivers either) "... That's because only Certified for Windows Vista software and devices have undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security" Is that really what's going on or are you trying to sell Vista compability on a sticker? -- //Bionk |
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Certified for Windows Vista my a..
"Barb Bowman" wrote: uninstall whatever software you installed from Linksys. go into... There are no drivers from Linksys. Vista provides one when you attach the network apdapter. Use Windows Update to search for a driver if it does not get pulled down automatically. No updated driver available. Even if this way of installing the harware would make it work it's far from the nice statements what a certified product should be, accourding to MS. The product is now returned. The vendor manager was upset. One of his collegues knew about the problem as well. I can live with the lack of support for some hardware. I run different operating systems/applications/hardware and I always need to ensure myself of compatibility when buying new hardware. However, Microsoft certifies certain hardware to be compatible with their OS and brags about them testing these products to let users now that this is what you should get. MS should revoke the ceritficate until the product functions as intended. This product has been out in stores for some time. And please don't turn this into a "Vista is crap"-thread because it isn't. I have good hardware and therefore great performance. I don't ever want to install XP again. //Owner of a D-Link DWA-140 |
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Certified for Windows Vista my a..
first,
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Pro...apter&oid=3029 indicated that the driver was on WU. second, since you returned it, no further trouble shooting is possible. glad you found a better/different NIC On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:34:00 -0800, Bionk wrote: No updated driver available. Even if this way of installing the harware would make it work it's far from the nice statements what a certified product should be, accourding to MS. The product is now returned. The vendor manager was upset. One of his collegues knew about the problem as well. I can live with the lack of support for some hardware. I run different operating systems/applications/hardware and I always need to ensure myself of compatibility when buying new hardware. However, Microsoft certifies certain hardware to be compatible with their OS and brags about them testing these products to let users now that this is what you should get. MS should revoke the ceritficate until the product functions as intended. This product has been out in stores for some time. And please don't turn this into a "Vista is crap"-thread because it isn't. I have good hardware and therefore great performance. I don't ever want to install XP again. //Owner of a D-Link DWA-140 -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |