Netgear XET 1001 Connection Problem

[Layard]

this is the situation :
i bought the 2 netgear xet 1001 adapters and used them with no problems.
they worked fine with a nice speed. today i formated my harddisk and installed windows vista. Now i have connected the first adapter with my computer and the second with my router but there is no connection found... if i start the powerline encryption utility there are also no adapters found...all lights are on.
so i tried it with an other w-lan adapter and connected with the internet. when both netgear adapters are connected with computer and router in the same time i can see on the encyption utility one of the two devices and this device is the one connected with the router.
So all in all i think my windows blocks the connection between the two adapters..
what could i do against this problem ?
i hope you can help me..
greets

[Jack™]

Could be Vista's own firewall blocking.
Situated behind a router, you don't need any further firewall. Use services to disable it and stop the service.

[Layard]

thanks my problem is solved

[Jack™]

Glad to hear.
Any chance to hear how you solved it, or what was the problem?

[Layard]

sure ;D
i found out that the ethernet controller was blocked because there was no driver installed...i have completely forgotten to install the drivers from the cd delivered by my pc. the intel network driver was not installed. after that and a restart of my pc there were a connection .
hope I helped the people who have the same problem like me

[Jack™]

Tnx for your info. In your case a simple network command such as IPCONFIG or PING will show problems with network components/OS drivers.