The latest Vista Adventures
Mar. 20th, 2007 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSo... The last two things on my list were to connect up the Netgear USB wireless adapter and see if I could connect the Vista machine to my neighbor's internet network and install the printer/fax.
Wireless adapter. Check. Well, kinda. I plugged it in. Vista found it and found a driver and said we were good to go. I unplugged the ethernet cable and, sure enough, no sweatola. Cool. Then I plugged the ethernet cable back in and unplugged the adapter and WHAP! Blue screen! no shit. haven't seen one of those in forever.
Note to self, why don't you try the Safely Remove Hardware thingie next time??!!
But, Vista came on back up and repaired itself. It stopped just short of apologizing but I understand. I probably hurt its feelings.
On to the printer.
First I checked HP's pages. Nope. No Vista driver yet. BUT, the page says that Vista includes drivers to make it print and with Vista Ultimate (which I have), it will scan and the memory cards work. (It has a memory card slot??!!! Who knew?!)
One of the things that I don't like about HP is all the crap they make you install just to get their stinkin' drivers. All I want to do is print and scan.
So... I unplug the USB cord from the old desktop and plug it into the new one. In less than 2 mins I'm printing and scanning! And the scanning thing - built into Vista is VERY VERY nice!
Wow. Cool. Excellent.
Wireless adapter. Check. Well, kinda. I plugged it in. Vista found it and found a driver and said we were good to go. I unplugged the ethernet cable and, sure enough, no sweatola. Cool. Then I plugged the ethernet cable back in and unplugged the adapter and WHAP! Blue screen! no shit. haven't seen one of those in forever.
Note to self, why don't you try the Safely Remove Hardware thingie next time??!!
But, Vista came on back up and repaired itself. It stopped just short of apologizing but I understand. I probably hurt its feelings.
On to the printer.
First I checked HP's pages. Nope. No Vista driver yet. BUT, the page says that Vista includes drivers to make it print and with Vista Ultimate (which I have), it will scan and the memory cards work. (It has a memory card slot??!!! Who knew?!)
One of the things that I don't like about HP is all the crap they make you install just to get their stinkin' drivers. All I want to do is print and scan.
So... I unplug the USB cord from the old desktop and plug it into the new one. In less than 2 mins I'm printing and scanning! And the scanning thing - built into Vista is VERY VERY nice!
Wow. Cool. Excellent.
