Internet and Network Problems in Vista

[Hooter]

Installed Vista Beta 2 Build 5384 on my desktop in a separate partiton. It
installed perfectly and ran perfectly including recognizing my internet
connection and wireless network. I then received an invitation to download
and install Build 5536 RC1. I did this and had trouble getting my network
and internet connection recognized. I have cable broadband connected to a
router with two other computers connected via wireless network with the
desktop.

I finally gave up on RC1 and tried to reinstall Build 5384 and have been
unable to get it to install. After a day of f\rustration I finally
reinstalled 5536 and everything went smoothly but, although it says I am
connected to the internet, I am unable to connect to the internet with IE7.
I prviously had Firefox installed on 5384 and it worked perfectly. It also
does not recognize the wireless network or the other computers connected to
the desktop through the wireless network.

If anyone can give me a suggestion or two to try and sort this mess out it
would be greatly appreciated..

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Let me guess, a Marvell Yukon nic? If so, update (revert actually) the
network card drivers to ones for WinXP. The Vista drivers will connect, but
are not fully functional so things like Internet Explorer will not render
pages. The Vista drivers for this adapter worked fine in early builds, but
with 5536 and 5600 this has been an issue (one that I and many others have
bugged).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Hooter]

Thanks for the feedback Rick. You are right it was the Marvell Yukon card.
I finally found a fix by going to the Device manager and under the
properties for the Marvell card there is an advanced setting that needed to
be disabled. I believe it was the IP4 Crosspost (something like that). I
disabled it and everything worked perfectly.

Bob McBride

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Bob,

IPv4 Checksum Offload, disabling it has worked for some as has disabling
autotuninglevel via admin-level command prompt, but not all (myself
included). Reverting drivers to XP ones has worked for those who it didn't.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org