Ok, I've looked through the forums and can't find any reference to this.  I've noticed multiple references to binding to a wireless network adapter as well as references to using a USB network adapter to allow keeping activated on both a desktop and laptop.  However, when I activate, my wireless adapter doesn't show in the list (interestingly my bluetooth PAN adapter shows on my laptop and my VMWare adapters show on my desktop).  This is true of both the built in wireless on the laptop and a netgear WG111v2 on either one.  This means I HAVE to remember to deactivate from the desktop before I leave for the day (I carry the laptop with me so if I forget to deactivate it that's not a big deal) or I have problems.

Is this a known issue with Vista and not seeing the wireless adapters?  BTW, I run Vistal Ultimate on both x64 on the desktop and x86 on the laptop.  Unfortunately I can't move the bluetooth dongle back and forth because I use a bluetooth mouse on the laptop and I use it off and on through the day in the office.

I'm not sure why it can see the belkin bluetooth dongle but not the netgear wireless dongle.  Is there something I need to do or am I just out of luck?

Thanks in advance for any help, while I can work with things currently, it's rather a pain especially if I could just be able to plug in the netgear wireless dongle on the machine I'm going to be working on at any given time.

Wireless Network Connection 2 (Dell 1350 NIC) shows as Wireless80211 and comes back as false.

Bluetooth Network Connection 5 shows as Ethernet and comes back as true.

Local Area Connection (build in eithernet) shows as Ethernet and comes back as true

Local Area Connection 2 (the netgear USB Wireless adapter) shows as Wireless80211 and comes back as false.

So it looks like only interfaces that come back as "Ethernet" are being seen as valid.  This doesn't seem all that great to me.  If needed I guess I can go out and buy a USB ethernet adapter just for this, but that seems a bit silly given that I have a couple of these netgear things laying around doing nothing else.

I remember having a problem like this with VMWare versions prior to 5.5 IIRC not seeing wireless adapters as being able to be bridged.  5.5 and higher don't have that problem, but then I'm not doing virtual machines on my laptop at the moment anyways.

No, I think we were trying to just reduce the number of adapters that whould show up in most users combo boxes to reduce confusion (most people don't need to see their 1394 fire wire connection listed).  However, looks like the Wireless80211 type is valid and has just been left off.  I'll post and update that will allow you to active on that network card type.

Here's the posted fix:

http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost12266.aspx

Let me know if it doesn't get you activated on the wireless card

So far it seems to work fine.  I'll test it on my desktop (already tested on the laptop) in a few minutes, if I don't say it didn't work that means it did (which I fully expect it to).  Many thanks.