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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?
 
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.

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?
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
 
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.
 
Barb Bowman said:
uninstall whatever software you installed from Linksys. go into...
Click to expand...
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.
Click to expand...
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
 
first,
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Pr...B300N Wireless-N USB Network Adapter&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

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
Click to expand...
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Barb Bowman
MS Windows-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/meetexperts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/
 
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