Windows 2008 Server and Wireless Network Cards
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Thank god!, I finally got it working, only took me all night to resolve, but i wasnt going to let it break me. So what did i resolve you ask, well I couldn't get my Linksys wireless WMP54G network card to recognize on Windows 2008 server. Since there is hardly any documentation online about this, I will document it on CP in the message boards. Anyways this is how to do it. Step 1: Get the latest driver package labeled for Vista 32/64 on the Linksys site, if you can not find the correct one for your version you can go to http://www.ralinktech.com/[^] and download the latest greatest chipset drivers for your linksys. Usually named Vista:RT61:2.1.0.0, RT2500:3.2.0.0 Step 2: Install the driver by using the device manager and and selecting the actual file using the have disk method and select it and say yes even though it might say it wont work with your hardware, but it does. Step 3: Now it will show that it is installed, but it will be stuck in a identifying network loop and never find a network to connect to. I thought it might be a bad driver so i tested everyone i could find and all had same result. Then I read online about new security features with windows 2008 on the microsoft site. Basically everything that can hurt you is disabled by default including wireless! So i looked around and found where to turn it on after an hour of my time. Basically go here: Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features on or off -> Add Feature -> Wireless Lan Service In the add feature you can see all kinds of things you might want to turn on that are now disabled by default. After all that, I have finally beat the machine. If any of you are interested in IIS 7.0 and configuring it on Windows 2008 it gets even worse. There is so many oddball security things to setup before you can even get an asp.net page to load, I will explain it later when i have time. As of windows 2008 server it runs pretty smooth, maybe because everything is disabled from the get go, way to go microsoft your finally making things half way secure. :) Time for bed, got to wake up in 4 hours so i can start hacking away again. :sigh: :zzz:
Adam Smith www.codeproject.com
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Thank god!, I finally got it working, only took me all night to resolve, but i wasnt going to let it break me. So what did i resolve you ask, well I couldn't get my Linksys wireless WMP54G network card to recognize on Windows 2008 server. Since there is hardly any documentation online about this, I will document it on CP in the message boards. Anyways this is how to do it. Step 1: Get the latest driver package labeled for Vista 32/64 on the Linksys site, if you can not find the correct one for your version you can go to http://www.ralinktech.com/[^] and download the latest greatest chipset drivers for your linksys. Usually named Vista:RT61:2.1.0.0, RT2500:3.2.0.0 Step 2: Install the driver by using the device manager and and selecting the actual file using the have disk method and select it and say yes even though it might say it wont work with your hardware, but it does. Step 3: Now it will show that it is installed, but it will be stuck in a identifying network loop and never find a network to connect to. I thought it might be a bad driver so i tested everyone i could find and all had same result. Then I read online about new security features with windows 2008 on the microsoft site. Basically everything that can hurt you is disabled by default including wireless! So i looked around and found where to turn it on after an hour of my time. Basically go here: Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows Features on or off -> Add Feature -> Wireless Lan Service In the add feature you can see all kinds of things you might want to turn on that are now disabled by default. After all that, I have finally beat the machine. If any of you are interested in IIS 7.0 and configuring it on Windows 2008 it gets even worse. There is so many oddball security things to setup before you can even get an asp.net page to load, I will explain it later when i have time. As of windows 2008 server it runs pretty smooth, maybe because everything is disabled from the get go, way to go microsoft your finally making things half way secure. :) Time for bed, got to wake up in 4 hours so i can start hacking away again. :sigh: :zzz:
Adam Smith www.codeproject.com
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If any of you are interested in IIS 7.0 and configuring it on Windows 2008 it gets even worse. There is so many oddball security things to setup before you can even get an asp.net page to load, I will explain it later when i have time.
I had a little experience a few weeks ago of getting our web application to run on IIS7 on Vista. Quite a lot of faffing around. However, we've rolled back to XP for the time being for other reasons.
Kevin