Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

[Hunter Fuller]

On  18 May 2006, at 12:13 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> On Wed, 17 May 2006 06:38:55 +0000
> Hunter Fuller <hackmiester at hackmiester.com> wrote:
>
>> First you disable their utility from starting at boot. Then you
>> scan for wireless networks, and when it complains about not being
>> able to touch it, click the yellow star at left and enable Windows'
>> managing the card. This is under SP2, if you need < SP2 reply, I'll
>> happily assist.
>
> That is the problem. The tab on the properties dialog that you would
> normally tell windows to manage it is removed by it.
Wow. That really sucks. Even the crappy IBM Access Connections thing  
on my laptop doesn't go THAT far.
> The driver
> installer will do this on are wireless cards installed and not just
> the card it is being installed for.
>
> I will check to see if the star thing is present on the available
> wireless network window tomorrow though.
>
> What I plan to do some time when I have some time to experiment up at
> work is to install the card, dump the registry to a text file,
> install the drivers, dump it to a text file again, and then diff it
> and see what shows up.
>