HP Pavillion a1632x

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If you look back in the postings, this is an approach which I have tried .
It seems as if my Linksys WRTP54G-VR does not have any supported drivers
under Vista64 sp2.
My question is, is the signal coming out of the broadband router something
that was understood by XP but not understood by Vista (hence the need for a
device driver)? I thought device drivers were something that the computer
uses to talk to hardware which is occuping a PCI slot or connected via a USB
cable. Are there device drivers for something which is outside the
computer? I would have thought something like this were standardized to the
point of being uniform. If the device driver is not available, which
brand/model of a broadband should I use. I went to BestBuy, but I got the
distinct impression that they were not as "trained" as I had hoped for.
Maybe the guy I got should have been in the large appliances section, but
was covering for his sick coworker.
Or is there something else in this set up that I am not doing correctly, do
I have to add or change a MAC address at location http://192.168.1.15?
Can someone suggest a more appropriate newsgroup in which to post this.
 
Yes some device such a disk drives and minimum display fuctionality have
standard drivers supplied my MS. However most other hardware devices do not
since they have not idea of how to handle new functionality implemented in
the hardware by the vendors. Therefore all hardware vendors are responsible
for providing drivers for their hardware of each major OS change and they
have to pay MS to have MS test them to insure that they conform to the
driver standards for a new OS in order to have them appear on the WHQL list
and to have MS provide them to users with WinUpdate.
 
It is similar to the Intel onboard chipset legal wrangle. These chipsets
will support Vista only with the generic drivers provided by Microsoft. Thus
they can claim "Vista Ready".

If your system allows it you could put in a low end graphics card that has
drivers, for example a ATI Radeon X300 chipset has a native Vista driver
available.
 
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