i have dual booted vista and xp and it works great but i am trying to use xp to play a closed realm game. my internet options and networks are sayin that i need a modem and i am on a laptop. i need to know how to get xp to link to my router. ive tried everything up to hooking a ethernet cable directly to yhe router and still no signal in xp. i have also already installed service pack 2 to the xp as well and stuck again.

Have you setup a wireless connection on your laptop?

yes i have a wireless internet connection on the laptop that works on vista and i have done the wireless setup on xp but its not detecting a connection even with a ethernet cable connected directly to the router

do you have any conflicts in Device manager?

have you enabled WEP or WPA or anything on the router?

the only conflict that im having in device manager is the connection isnt showing up and xp wont let me setup any kind of networks. the router is working fine i have 3 other computers connected. xp just wont setup any kind of networks

Do you have any network adapters showing up in Device manager, if not then you need to install a driver for it, e.g. add new hardware in control panel

there are devices showing up in the device manager there is a pci device and ethernet controller

Do either of them have a yellow flag by them, because it seems like the pci device should be named e.g. like PCI-E gigabit ethernet controller
You may have to update the driver for it to get it to work.

yes there is a yellow flag next to it but when i click on the update device it tells me i need to go to the internet to do this. is there a way to update it from vista