Windows Vista Lounge

I got an email from Fabio about the Netgear issues in Vista. Fabio, thanks for the email–not sure why my comments aren’t working but I’ll get that fixed soon. Meanwhile to answer your question on HOW to get the Netgear WG111v2 working in Vista.

This is an odd cure, but it worked for me on multiple occasions so here goes. Install the XP drivers from Netgear for the WG111v2. http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/wg111v2.asp

After installing, it wont detect your USB wireless stick…so do this:

Go into properties on the System, Device Manager, Network, etc…and update the driver.

It will look for a driver on the web by default but specify for it to look in the folder where the Netgear software just installed. Once you do that, it will kind of die and say, “um..I didn’t find anything I needed”. (Ok so I’m paraphrasing)

And right about then your device detector will say, new hardware found, USB Network Card…yada yada yada.

You may have to reboot if this doesn’t work the first time, but mine detected right after pointing to manually to the netgear folder. It’s been very reliable and the encryption works just as smooth as on XP.

Hope this helps the many out there trying to get a WG111v2 up on Vista.