Vista/mobo problem

Installed Vista home premium on a recent build for my brother with this motherboard:
ASUS P5B-E LGA 775 Intel P965 Express
Specs here.
He then installed a Linksys wireless card. (Sorry don't have the model #)
He cannot connect to the internet through his router with either the wireless card or a ethernet cable. Vista will see the connection and connect, then disconnect after a few seconds. This happens over and over.
At his wits end.

When I built this machine at my home and needed to update some drivers I connected to my Linksys gateway with a USB connection and had no trouble.

Any ideas how we can get him online?

Were the drivers installed through Vista or from the Linksys site? Vista
instantly recognized my video card and installed a driver for the correct
model, but I had a few game issues until I installed the driver directly from
nVidia.

*edit-after Vista had updated the driver...twice.*

Update/

Ok...first off, networking is not my forte, (we all know what is) I don't have a network at home so I have little or no experience with them. But hey, the Vista welcome screen promises to make connections easier than ever before........

Apparently Vista doesn't like working with his DSL device from Verizon. Going to the manufacurers website we found a prepared message stating the equipment was built specifically for verizon and to contact them.

While my brother called them and went through the tedious menu, I reinstalled Vista and we were encountering the same problems. When we finally got to talk to a nice man from India named Jefferson, we were informed that we should reinstall Vista. 8O
We thanked him for his time and hung up.

We dug an old DLink device out of the closet, ran the ethernet cable from the computer to it, and then a cable from the Dlink to the DSL. Viola! A solid internet connection was achieved. However, there is no network sharing of printer etc.

I'm wondering if Vista/xp networking is even possible? Or if it is as simple as needing an upgrade of equipment from Verizon.

*Eye watering, chipset melting FART*

Look out below!!!!!!

oh man it edited my $hit word :x

i thought you could do it here in the (other) :x

yeah just what i thought.

i always get shit on here in the (other)

they are all mutants. i wonder why i even come down here.

i just got my 88gts gpu worked out and am going to go play some games.


to hell with you freaks

do you have any salt 8O

Do you think he even noticed?