FYI traveling with a laptop and Vista

Originally Posted by kydsid

Interesting I have had a vista laptop for 2 years or so and travelled extensively and never had this problem.

Do you have vista configured to display the network connection icon in the sys tray? That is one of the first things I changed and with that you can always adjust your network(s) via disconnect, repair, connect, etc.

I tried everything I could think of while I was down there. I found the driver stuff on google when I got back.

Mine shows the connection on the tray. The thing is it would be connected, and when you went to a page it wouldn't pop up the login info so it never connected. I tried IE8 and FF neither one worked. My Ipod would connect just fine, but it is hard to read on such a small screen.

[kydsid]

Originally Posted by Junior

I tried everything I could think of while I was down there. I found the driver stuff on google when I got back.

Mine shows the connection on the tray. The thing is it would be connected, and when you went to a page it wouldn't pop up the login info so it never connected. I tried IE8 and FF neither one worked. My Ipod would connect just fine, but it is hard to read on such a small screen.

Right click anywhere between start/quick launch and system tray area, select properties, go to notification area tab, select network, select ok. Network icon will be in system tray, looks like two computers with a world between. Right click network icon, options include diagnose and repair, disconnect etc.

Vista only: Click start, click network at the top of the new window is a button called network and sharing center, click that (this is also found in the control panel), options on the left of this window include diagnose and repair, connect, find new, etc.

There are more but the drivers thing is a bit much and I would in fact get rid of them ASAP as they aren't Vista drivers.

Honestly there isn't anything wrong with Vista as far as I am concerned. Now that said I never bothered to upgrade my desktop from XP Pro but I have moved to Win 7 on that machine.