Need Broadband Network Utility software, MN-720

Hello,

I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a Toshiba
Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop would
have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the Linksys
networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for his
laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).

The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
installation disk. After plugging it in through a cable,
I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
There seems to be absolutely no download support for this
card, which I find highly frustrating.

Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
download the necessary installation software or (b) a way
to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
husband's!

You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.

Thanks for your time,
-M

Hello Melissa,

I know the fine print can be an irritation sometimes.
But your father's laptop is running WinXP and it is a MN-
720 adapter, correct? In the setup manual for the MN-
720, on the first page of "Chapter 2 SETUP" it says...

"Note If you don't want to use the Srtup Wizard to set
up your adapter, and you have Windows XP, it is possible
to set up your adapter by using Add Hardware Wizard and
the Wireless Network Connection utility in Windows."

But if you can't get that to work, go out and buy another
adapter to match your husband's.


>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
>upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a
Toshiba
>Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
>the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop
would
>have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the
Linksys
>networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for
his
>laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
>
>The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
>installation disk. After plugging it in through a
cable,
>I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
>hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
>luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
>There seems to be absolutely no download support for
this
>card, which I find highly frustrating.
>
>Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
>download the necessary installation software or (b) a
way
>to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
>chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
>husband's!
>
>You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>-M
>.
>

Ken, Melissa still needs the drivers even if she uses XP's native WZC to
configure the network.

Ken wrote:
> Hello Melissa,
>
> I know the fine print can be an irritation sometimes.
> But your father's laptop is running WinXP and it is a MN-
> 720 adapter, correct? In the setup manual for the MN-
> 720, on the first page of "Chapter 2 SETUP" it says...
>
> "Note If you don't want to use the Srtup Wizard to set
> up your adapter, and you have Windows XP, it is possible
> to set up your adapter by using Add Hardware Wizard and
> the Wireless Network Connection utility in Windows."
>
> But if you can't get that to work, go out and buy another
> adapter to match your husband's.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
>> upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a
> Toshiba
>> Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
>> the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop
> would
>> have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the
> Linksys
>> networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for
> his
>> laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
>>
>> The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
>> installation disk. After plugging it in through a
> cable,
>> I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
>> hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
>> luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
>> There seems to be absolutely no download support for
> this
>> card, which I find highly frustrating.
>>
>> Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
>> download the necessary installation software or (b) a
> way
>> to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
>> chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
>> husband's!
>>
>> You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> -M
>> .


--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

Yeas, your right Barb. You need the drivers. And I need
my first latte'.

Barb,

Hmmm. Why doesn't MSFT publish the drivers for the
adapters? I have two MSFT base stations and two MSFT
adapters. I have four Setup CDs - an overabundance. I
guess I can't give them away.


>-----Original Message-----
>Ken, Melissa still needs the drivers even if she uses
XP's native WZC to
>configure the network.
>
>Ken wrote:
>> Hello Melissa,
>>
>> I know the fine print can be an irritation sometimes.
>> But your father's laptop is running WinXP and it is a
MN-
>> 720 adapter, correct? In the setup manual for the MN-
>> 720, on the first page of "Chapter 2 SETUP" it says...
>>
>> "Note If you don't want to use the Srtup Wizard to set
>> up your adapter, and you have Windows XP, it is
possible
>> to set up your adapter by using Add Hardware Wizard and
>> the Wireless Network Connection utility in Windows."
>>
>> But if you can't get that to work, go out and buy
another
>> adapter to match your husband's.
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
>>> upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a
>> Toshiba
>>> Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
>>> the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop
>> would
>>> have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the
>> Linksys
>>> networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for
>> his
>>> laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
>>>
>>> The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
>>> installation disk. After plugging it in through a
>> cable,
>>> I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
>>> hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
>>> luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site
either.
>>> There seems to be absolutely no download support for
>> this
>>> card, which I find highly frustrating.
>>>
>>> Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
>>> download the necessary installation software or (b) a
>> way
>>> to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
>>> chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
>>> husband's!
>>>
>>> You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> -M
>>> .
>
>
>--
> Barb Bowman
> Expert Zone Columnist
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> MS-MVP (Windows)
>
>
>.
>

Goto
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...Downloads.aspx

Select MN700
Download the msbndownload.exe file

Extract its contents with Winrar
Right click msbn.msi and install it.

After you install it, the drivers will be in (if you keep the default msbn
install directory) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Broadband Networking



--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

"Melissa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1af7001c44f90$7870f490$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
> upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a Toshiba
> Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
> the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop would
> have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the Linksys
> networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for his
> laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
>
> The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
> installation disk. After plugging it in through a cable,
> I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
> hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
> luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
> There seems to be absolutely no download support for this
> card, which I find highly frustrating.
>
> Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
> download the necessary installation software or (b) a way
> to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
> chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
> husband's!
>
> You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> -M

This worked beautifully - THANK YOU!

If I might make a suggestions, it would be grand if MS
added this download to the MN-720 page

>-----Original Message-----
>Goto
>http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...networking/15_
Downloads.aspx
>
>Select MN700
>Download the msbndownload.exe file
>
>Extract its contents with Winrar
>Right click msbn.msi and install it.
>
>After you install it, the drivers will be in (if you
keep the default msbn
>install directory) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Broadband
Networking
>
>
>
>--
>Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
>
>Find out about the MS MVP Program -
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
>
>"Melissa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:1af7001c44f90$7870f490$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
>> upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a
Toshiba
>> Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
>> the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop
would
>> have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the
Linksys
>> networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for
his
>> laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
>>
>> The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
>> installation disk. After plugging it in through a
cable,
>> I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
>> hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
>> luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
>> There seems to be absolutely no download support for
this
>> card, which I find highly frustrating.
>>
>> Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
>> download the necessary installation software or (b) a
way
>> to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
>> chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
>> husband's!
>>
>> You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> -M
>
>
>.
>

Glad you got it working...

--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

"Melissa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1b6a101c44fe9$5ce98a80$(E-Mail Removed)...
> This worked beautifully - THANK YOU!
>
> If I might make a suggestions, it would be grand if MS
> added this download to the MN-720 page
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Goto
> >http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/br...networking/15_
> Downloads.aspx
> >
> >Select MN700
> >Download the msbndownload.exe file
> >
> >Extract its contents with Winrar
> >Right click msbn.msi and install it.
> >
> >After you install it, the drivers will be in (if you
> keep the default msbn
> >install directory) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Broadband
> Networking
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP
> >
> >Find out about the MS MVP Program -
> >http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx
> >
> >"Melissa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> >news:1af7001c44f90$7870f490$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm at an utter standstill. My father, bless him,
> >> upgraded his laptop and shipped me his old one, a
> Toshiba
> >> Satellite with WinXP Home edition. He also sent along
> >> the MN-720. Since he told us in advance the laptop
> would
> >> have a wireless card, my husband and I bought the
> Linksys
> >> networking kit and have that as a base and a fard for
> his
> >> laptop (which works splendidly, I might add).
> >>
> >> The bad news is that dad didn't send along any
> >> installation disk. After plugging it in through a
> cable,
> >> I went to Windows Update and got everything possible,
> >> hoping it would also have drivers available. No such
> >> luck. No luck on the /broadbandnetworking site either.
> >> There seems to be absolutely no download support for
> this
> >> card, which I find highly frustrating.
> >>
> >> Please, would someone enlighten me with (a) a place to
> >> download the necessary installation software or (b) a
> way
> >> to manually install this thing? I'm pretty close to
> >> chucking it and getting a Linksys card to match my
> >> husband's!
> >>
> >> You can right me off-list at meruorime -at- yahoo.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your time,
> >> -M
> >
> >
> >.
> >