has vista found you adapter? on your pc? afaik its the same I just log into my router using its internal ip enter settings I require and JD . Ive not used an adapter but go into control panel network and sharing centre and click manage wireless networks and it should become plain
Or open control panel network connections and click your wireless adapter
By rights if you have a driven wireless network device you should see an icon for it in your taskbar and connect pretty much the same as before