vista refuses to let wireless adapters work

[phyco_can]

i recently downloaded vista onto my computer from XP and now the internet wont work
i downloaded the most recent drivers for my edimax EW-7128g network adapter didint work, i had a linksys wmp54g wireless adapter laying around so i tried that out got the latest drivers and still nothing,this is whats really getting me...i go to control panel>system>hardware>network adapters and it finds the adapters but it just says network controller not what it acually is then when i click on it it says that it needs the latest drivers and whatnot....even when i turn on my cpu it says hardware not properly installed

PLEEASEE HELLLPP:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

oh and i have an abit KN8 ultra mobo with 1.5 gigs of ram, amd athlon 64 cpu and two HDD one with 150gb and other with 30gb

[phyco_can]

just clarifying.. i did not "download" vista i meant installed b/c my old windows xp was breaking down and instead of reinstalling xp i upgraded to vista

[mjc]

Let's go back and grab a little history...

What exactly was the problem with XP?

Did you do a 'clean' install or an 'upgrade'? A clean install is wiping out what was on the hard drive and starting over with a new install. Upgrade is installing a newer version of Windows over top of an existing one.

[phyco_can]

i did a clean install of windows vista because my xp was running extremely sluggish and that OS was running on that comp for about 3-4 yrs viruses etc just got me frustrated,thats were the clean install came from i wiped everything out of the other HDD(30gb) and the clean install wiped out the (160gb)

[mjc]

Ok...then you need to start with making sure all the drivers for Vista are installed...motherboard, video, etc...especially the motherboard/chipset drivers, before trying the network drivers. You also need to make sure that you have the correct versions 32 bit drivers for 32 bit Vista/64 bit for 64 bit Vista).