getting internet connection vista

How do yo do it? The wizard just will not make a connection for me. I am pretty sure i have provided all the correct info. Can anyone help? Is there any other way to activate Vista? Thanks

You need to give details about your computer, NIC, method of connecting to the internet, and so on.
One important step is to ensure that you have a Vista beta driver for your network adaptor.
"frustrated" wrote in message

How do yo do it? The wizard just will not make a connection for me. I am pretty sure i have provided all the correct info. Can anyone help? Is there any other way to activate Vista? Thanks

Activation is the least of your problems. You need the web for all kinds of reasons if you're going to use any OS. Taking Colin's cue--hit the Windows key + R and type devmgmt.msc in your run box and see if you even have an entry for "Network Adapters" in dev manager and if your NIC card is present. Having said that while most of the time it is, having the entry present doesn't always guarantee that the driver is healthy but given your problem Beta 2 might well have set up leaving your NIC card driver behind. I've seen that happen I think in 5381--and this might be different for diffrent NIC card drivers.
If you don't see it, and you're on a dual boot, you can get the driver with your XP boot and just install it from Vista adding new hardware. There is also the possibility it got corrupted somehow during install but more likely that it isn't installed if that's the problem.
In addition, if you do have a healthy NIC card driver, then when you try to load a web page what do you see? Check eventvwr.msc in the run box as well and see if you have any info there.
Have you tried to ping a couple web sites at the cmd prompt? Go to run>cmd>try typing in ping www.msn.com -t and let it ping 15-20times and then stop the ping with a Ctrl+C.
Do the packets transmit or time out?
CH
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

You need to give details about your computer, NIC, method of connecting to the internet, and so on.
One important step is to ensure that you have a Vista beta driver for your network adaptor.
"frustrated" wrote in message How do yo do it? The wizard just will not make a connection for me. I am pretty sure i have provided all the correct info. Can anyone help? Is there any other way to activate Vista? Thanks