Boot camp vista can't find airport/wi-fi

I always use a wireless connection and my connection is working right now. I just installed vista using boot camp and I want to know if there is a way that I can get online while I'm on vista. It says it is missing the proper drivers or something. It doesn't seem to know that my macbook pro has an airport.

daniele35 wrote:
Yes, that's what I taught, so I burnt the second disk at 2x, with no luck.
Unless you need this for gaming I recommend running from a VM, business performance is usually more then fast enough and you can install from the iso.
Virtual Box is free.

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