Running WinXP, but no internet/bluetooth?

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I've installed Windows XP on my MBP and it seems to work fine, with the exception of internet and bluetooth. I put in my leopard disc to install the drivers and that didn't make any difference. When I go to set up wireless internet, it gives me some confusing list of directions to fiddle around with my router. Can't I just select the network and be done with it?

As for the bluetooth, i'm trying to set up my wireless mighty mouse and it brings me to a window where I have to choose some id number or something, and I choose the option to not use a number. Then, the next window asks me for the number. What?

Thanks for any help, this is getting really frustrating.


P.S.- I am planning to install Windows Vista in the near future. I have some PC games that I want to play, but if I install them on WinXP right now, will I be able to install them on Vista when I get that? Or is it one of those things where you can only use the key code once?
 
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I installed XP on my MacBook Pro and used wireless and my bluetooth mouse fine. I would try un-installing the drivers and re-installing them with the leopard disk.

As for your question about Vista, I would strongly discourage "upgrading" to Vista. I had vista on my Mac and "downgraded"(I would call it upgrading) back to XP because most of the games I wanted to play did not work with vista. Plus I had other compatibility problems with school stuff.

Hope this helps.
 
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I've used Boot camp and installed Windows XP once and Windows Vista once, all drivers worked / work just fine for me. Did you manually install each driver or used the Boot Camp Auto-Run Drivers Install feature? Because that's what you have to do. Tap-to-click will not work fine though.
 

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