There has been a lot of people asking about this. I managed to get it working. Here are the simple steps!
- Make sure you have at least the Vista Rc1 installed. A lot of drivers might have been installed when Vista does the automatic updates.
- For the rest of the drivers you could just use the driver backup CD from Asus
- Now for th wireless. Use the backup CD or download it from here and install the “Wireless Lan Driver and Application” Yes, it might install and will refuse to work.
- The easy fix. Restart, you’ll be prompted with an error about the “Wireless Lan Driver and Application” - Don’t worry
- Go to your Device Center and choose the wireless card and say “update driver” … and browse for the directory that you installed the application. (default being “Program Files > ASUS > WLAN Card Utilities”) Now assuming that you have the original xp untouched, you can browse the directory out there too.
- You’ll find a directory within named “Driver”. Choose that and say “OK”
- Tada… you have it working.
- Now go ahead and uninstall the application (WLAN Card Utilities), you really don’t need it, you can use Windows network manager.
Or the super duper easy way. Download the driver files from here (this is same as the one mentioned above) and get it going. If at all you run in to issues do post them here. I wonder why Asus has bundled the driver in an application.
Thanks for the tips,
It works great. Saturday i tried an upgrade from XP tablet to vista and that also worked, but the system was slower with 1.2GB ram that a fresh install of vista.
Than i copied the System32 dir to a removeble drive, and installed the driver from there after a clean vista installation.
But your way is the simpelest and cleanest way, Thanks for your help.
Thanks
Patrick
I’m having trouble with the following things after getting Vista up and running:
1) Asus Security Protect Manager (the finger-print scanner)
2) The button on the right [...] opens up, but the option to change resolution is not available.
can anyone help? I re-installed all the drivers from the Asus disk, but still no luck with the fingerprint thing or the resolution changes… it did get wifi to work, though
@ Evan,
The resolution switching i dind’nt get to work under vista, but the fingerprint did work.
I just installed the Security protect manager, and swcured my windows account with a password, and registered my fingerprints on the protect manager.
Then the protect manager wizzard asked me if i wanted to use it to log onto windows, and i selected yes.
Then when you rebot your R2h, you see two accounts in de vista login screen, dont click annyone of them, instead just whipe your finger over the censor.
If everything is correct, You will see the fingerprint icon fide in on the top reight side. Then if your finger is reconized Vista should logon your account.
If this doesn’t work, let me know, what went wrong.
thanks!… I managed to get the Security Manager working a little - but only for booting up, not when the screensaver kicks in.
There are 2 accounts - one is mine, with the windows logo I selected (chess piece, jet, etc). the second account is ASUS securtity with some icon I’ve never seen. After booting-up, I just ignore these, swipe my finger, and it finds me and I’m in.
However, I also have the computer to “prompt for password” after the screen saver kicks in. There are also 2 accounts here and when I swipe my finger, it recognizes me, the fingerprint reader shows the green check, so it does pick it up… however right after that it gives some error message saying that that account isn’t valid or something… I’m at work now and don’t remember exactly what happens, but will get you more detail when I get home.
Hi Evan,
It’s nice to hear that the fingerprint login works for you.
However i can’t say why it doesn’t work with the screensaver promt, Unfortunally i recoverd my windows XP installation, and don;t have vista running on my R2H at this time.
My dad, stil has vista on his R2H, so i will take a look at his vista and try to find your problem and off course a solution
I will try to give the solution as soon as posible, unless someone else beats me
Thanks for the tip, but I need the WLAN application to get my asus-based machine to function as a wireless access point. Vista doesn’t seem to have SoftAP built in. Thoughts?
hi i got a real version of vista and im going to try ount the wireless on r2h later.
Btw audio works
i have instaled vista but after instalation no sound was heard and no onternet connection i tryed to instal drivers from my motherbord cd but it didnt bz it is not for vista i have asus P5RD1-VM motherbord i tryed in asus site but i couldnt find drivers for vista pz can u help me wr can get the drivers for my bord for windows vista..
Dude, you are a lifesaver!!! I can’t belive I had the driver for my WLAN on my computer this whole time. Thanks for the heads up!
Oh - Thanks Kyle and if you happen to find something new, do let us know
Thanks mate! Really useful tweak!
hmm i can’t seem to get this to work is device center the same as device manager?
when i try this i don’t see my wireless showing up in device center i only see my ethernet one which is the yukon marvel thingy any ideas?
sry i meant device manager not center*