If you see the adapter in Device Manager then you should take the next step
to configure connection.
As you described you can't see the device. This problem is due to an IRQ
conflict (check Run msinfo32/ Hardware Resources/Conflict/Sharing) witch
should be very strange for Vista (because is a PnP OS). You should check in
BIOS if USB ports are enabled.
Let me know if that helped ...
"Alliebear" <Alliebear@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B0135998-AE8F-45E4-A0E8-C53371314E49@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Please explain what you mean by "setup the connection." As far as I know,
> I
> already did that.
>
> "Marius Farcas" wrote:
> Quote:
>> You should setup the connection not only the net. adapter
>>
>> "Alliebear" <Alliebear@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:181B3529-AAEB-461D-8915-AC6582F51A0B@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > Recently, my older laptop crashed and I could not access the Internet.
>> > Being
>> > as I am a college student, I cannot function without network
>> > capability.
>> > I
>> > bought my new computer, which has Vista (and I'm not familiar with it).
>> > So I
>> > got it home and tried to install my SBC Yahoo wireless internet. The
>> > network
>> > is fine but the USB adapter device can't be recognized. I went on the
>> > device
>> > support page and installed the driver information and it still won't
>> > work.
>> > Am I the only one out there with this problem?
>>