[stangpride87]

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.

[yeshuas]

Have you setup a wireless connection on your laptop?

[stangpride87]

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

[yeshuas]

do you have any conflicts in Device manager?

[yeshuas]

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

[stangpride87]

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

[yeshuas]

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

[stangpride87]

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

[yeshuas]

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.

[stangpride87]

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