Hi
This page was meant for XP but the general principles apply to Vista as
well.
http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html
These two pages have specific instructions for Vista.
http://www.loughborough.ac.uk/comput...ta-guided.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb878035.aspx
BTW, Vista is not as bad as you think, the fact is that Millions of people
are successfully using Wireless with Vista.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
"querimonious" <querimonious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:028A4517-A62C-4EBF-86BA-626769142C90@microsoft.com...
>I recently bought a new Dell with Vista Home Premuim and have not been able
> to connect to any of the six (6) wifi networks I've tried. Two home
> networks, one at work and three public. On each occasion I have been able
> to
> detect and where appropriate, provide security keys, but although it says
> it's connected it will not go on the internet or do any network activity.
> I
> do have a nice cheap Palm TX which connects to all of these networks, so
> I'm
> thinking it's a Vista issue. Given I bought a laptop for the explict
> purpose
> of using wifi, this is a rather expensive rock which is pretty much
> useless.
> Seems like lots of people have the same problems, but haven't yet found
> any
> solutions. What a surprise from Microsoft, eh?