Hi guys, I was wondering if somebody could assist me with a problem while running parallels that I was having after I installed vista ultimate on my macbook pro. The problem that I am having is that vista ult. will not pick up any of my networks when I start it up, it says that the network drivers are not installed. I have tried to run parallels on all three network options. Has anyone else come across this problem? If so, could someone please assist me on this issue, because this is wasted copy of vista if I am not allowed to use the internet while operating vista ult. Also, it wont even pick up when it is plugged into the cable modem... Thanks in advance. Saki
I am having the exact same problem. Parallels 3.0, Boot Camp 1.3 Booting in Boot Camp - ethernet and wireless drivers work perfectly. When I boot using Parallels, I am prompted to update the ethernet driver. I point it towards the windows driver disk and it fails to find a suitable driver. After closing this, the same thing repeats for the wirless driver. I did not have this problem using the previous version of Parallels, or with the 1.2 version of bootcamp. It only occured when I upgraded both. Unfortunately there is no way to downgrade the Boot Camp from 1.3 to 1.2. Please assist in why Parallels will not use the installed network drivers from a bootcamp partition. Thank you.
becuase Parallels is a VIRTUALISATION application, so when you are running windows within it, you are NOT accessing the Apple Wireless card directly. Parallels installs its own adapter into Windows and then you setup Paralllels to use your Airport connection. If you do not have a parallels adapter, you probably havent installed the parallels tools.
Hi Darkone, Thank you for replying. When booting in Parallels, I am prompted to install the ethernet and wireless driver. It won't find any drivers - even when I point at them. Because I can't get any network access, I can't access the parallels tools install executable. It's a bit of a catch 22. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Thanks again, Matt
You don't need internet access to get Parallels Tools. It's sort of 'injected into' the VM by selecting 'Install Parallels Tools' under Actions menu. This will initiate an auto-run installation routine of PT installer from a disk image loaded inside the VM. Do not try to manually install network drivers. Windows do not have the drivers you're looking for.
The WiFi is going to be handled by OS X. Parallels will simply pass on a working internet connection via a virtualized ethernet adaptor (thus making it look like a wired connection instead of wireless) to inside the VM. And this virtualized ethernet adaptor should work properly once you install Parallels Tools.
Just a quick note to say that my issue has been resolved. First I removed the old Parallels install. Then I did a clean reinstall of vista and bootcamp. Updated Vista, and installed the boot camp drivers. Then I created a new parallels install - pointing to the new bootcamp install. Once it booted up, the parallels tools started by itself. I waited for it to do it's thing and followed the prompts and now everything is working perfectly. Thank you for your help!
i just run parallel tools, worked a treat!? cheers all now gota resolve next problem! cannot install anything!? memory reference errors!?
