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    clean install of vista, can't get sprint to work

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by athos, Jan 23, 2008.

  1. athos

    athos Notebook Geek

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    I did a fresh install of Vista yesterday. I installed all of the drivers and smartwi. I reentered my activation codes and such into the sprint activation application, and yet, while it will connect to the network I get no internet from it. It's almost as if there is a missing "bridge" that gets me out. The connection manager shows me as connected but not to the internet.

    Anyone have some advice that has done this? I really need this to work today. :(
     
    athos, Jan 23, 2008
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  2. ZoinksS2k

    ZoinksS2k Notebook Virtuoso

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    I had the same issue in Vista and and again with Windows 7, although I don't think it is a Windows thing.

    You need to go into the Sprint activation wizard and let it run until it fails (already activated). Not entirely sure what this does, but it worked for me.
     
    ZoinksS2k, Jan 12, 2009
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