network driver vista

I'm running a fresh Kubuntu 7.04 install with all the latest kernel upgrades since 2007-07-21. I then installed VirtualBox 1.4 using the Debian repository. I was able to successfully install Vista Home Premium in VirtualBox but am having the same network driver issue referenced in this issue. I've followed the directions in the user manual under troubleshooting Vista guest networking and I consistently get Vista freezing up during the drive install. When I reboot Vista the Device Manager shows the AMD PCNET family ethernet adapter but with an error. The details on the error are:

This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)

The driver that is being used according to details on the driver is: C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\PCNTPCI5.sys

I've tried removing the network device, restarting windows in safe mode with networking but get the same results. Windows goes to install the driver and then freezes about 5 seconds in.

And, of course, after adding comments to this issue, I think I figured out a way around the problem.

First, I should mention that my only active network connection right now is through a standard intel proset wifi card in my laptop. This is eth1 on my laptop.

In order to get Vista to install the network driver without freezing up, I had to set the VirtualBox network to "Detached" and "Connected" NOT checked. I then started up Vista, followed the steps to install the network driver from the VirtualBox user manual and everything went fine. I then shutdown Vista, changed the settings in VirtualBox for my network adapter to use "NAT" and to be connected. Then I booted up Vista and now have network connectivity from the Vista guest.

That was most likely fixed in 1.5.2. Reopen if that's not the case.