[DaveA]

We have two Sony laptops with wireless. We have yet to find a wireless connection that we can NOT connect to. If the connection is available we can connect, this includes many hotels, malls, coffee shops, schools and etc. We have even connected to several of our neighbor's, as some still run their boxes in the Public mode.

[sixwheeledbeast]

I think its a driver issue with vista, I don't think I explained fully when i fixed mine.

Quote:-
"I have just un-installed my wireless card driver :-
Start / Settings / Network Connections / Wireless Internet Connection (Properties)....
...Configure / Driver / Uninstall.

When it had fixed Windows automatically installed a new driver in second which fixed the problem.

Re-entered a new profile (SSID, key etc.) job done."
-:Un-Quote

I was connected to the internet via ethernet at the time of deleting the driver.
It flashed on the taskbar Windows is updating drivers.

Vista automatically installed a driver of a totally different name.
It was Dell Wireless 1390 or something like that its now ...
Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter.

I am thinking vista has a problem with some wireless cards drivers as the problem occurs on some USB cards too. I had tried three different USB cards till I got one to work with the old driver.

I hope this helps.

SIXWHEELEDBEAST