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Vodafone dongle won't work with Vista...

  • 07-01-2009 09:39PM
    #1
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi guys,
    I have a Vondafone pen 3g dongle here that work's fine on my XP machine, but when I connect it to a Vista laptop it won't work.

    It connects fine within the Vodafone software, but within Windows Network I keep getting a "Limited connectivity" icon. I did an ipconfig in DOS and there doesn't seem to be any default gateway assigned, whereas there is in XP

    This is the only thing I can find out of the ordinary. Can anyone offer any advise?


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  • #2
    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Try putting in the default gateway manually?


  • #3
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Pacifico wrote: »
    Try putting in the default gateway manually?

    There's no optino to do this as it appears as a dial-up connection. Allows me to manually enter IP address and DNS but not gateway


  • #4
    Falconire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Falconire


    JohnCleary wrote: »
    Hi guys,
    I have a Vondafone pen 3g dongle here that work's fine on my XP machine, but when I connect it to a Vista laptop it won't work.

    It connects fine within the Vodafone software, but within Windows Network I keep getting a "Limited connectivity" icon. I did an ipconfig in DOS and there doesn't seem to be any default gateway assigned, whereas there is in XP

    This is the only thing I can find out of the ordinary. Can anyone offer any advise?

    You have to go on the Vodafone website and download vista firmware for the Dongle and update it before it will work


  • #5
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    Falconire wrote: »
    You have to go on the Vodafone website and download vista firmware for the Dongle and update it before it will work

    Thank you so much for this, will look into it! I was stumped


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