I installed an Airnet AWD154 PCI wireless card in my Vista test box and was
pleasantly surprised to find it auto-detected and installed drivers for it
as a "Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g" wireless card. I couldn't make it work
with SSID broadcast disabled and WPA-PSK encryption, but it worked fine when
the network was open/unencrypted/broadcasting. Got Vista activated, and it
identified a handful of updates it wanted, downloaded and installed, and
rebooted.

After the reboot, I had no wireless and the Marvell adapter status was "The
device cannot start (code 10)". Rebooted again, no change.

So I used the CD that came with the card and updated the driver for the
non-starting device with the XP driver. Now it will tell me that "wireless
networks are available" even though there is no tray icon for the wireless
card. Click "Connect To..." a Connect to Network window opens and is
completely white for about a minute before offering the list of wireless
networks. It lists the SSID I'm broadcasting so I know it can "hear", but
won't connect. "The wireless network does not match the capabilities of
your wireless hardware" or similar error. Network Connections says my
Wireless Network Connection is disabled. Device Manager says it is enabled.

At least I had a connection long enough to activate Vista...

If you click it in the connections settings window you can re-enable it. But
I'm going with you tried that. Your security settings are two levels deep,
especially for those who's wireless is a shared key. Instead of connecting
through the avilable network screen. Go to control panel>Network Center >
Reorder wireless networks. Click Add, Enter all the applicable information.
next, next close. Now open it again to set it to shared from open if
applicable.

Ideally, you should be able to click connect in the available network list
and get to add AND set it to shared, but that's not even available in Win
XP, you still have to get to settings to set up a shared key.

have fun

"FreeFlyer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I installed an Airnet AWD154 PCI wireless card in my Vista test box and was
>pleasantly surprised to find it auto-detected and installed drivers for it
>as a "Marvell Libertas 802.11b/g" wireless card. I couldn't make it work
>with SSID broadcast disabled and WPA-PSK encryption, but it worked fine
>when the network was open/unencrypted/broadcasting. Got Vista activated,
>and it identified a handful of updates it wanted, downloaded and installed,
>and rebooted.
>
> After the reboot, I had no wireless and the Marvell adapter status was
> "The device cannot start (code 10)". Rebooted again, no change.
>
> So I used the CD that came with the card and updated the driver for the
> non-starting device with the XP driver. Now it will tell me that
> "wireless networks are available" even though there is no tray icon for
> the wireless card. Click "Connect To..." a Connect to Network window
> opens and is completely white for about a minute before offering the list
> of wireless networks. It lists the SSID I'm broadcasting so I know it can
> "hear", but won't connect. "The wireless network does not match the
> capabilities of your wireless hardware" or similar error. Network
> Connections says my Wireless Network Connection is disabled. Device
> Manager says it is enabled.
>
> At least I had a connection long enough to activate Vista...
>