Wireless networking - "Identifying ...(Public Network).."

Hi,

I'm having a strange wireless networking problem. I defined a private
network in Vista, complete with wireless network connection & key.

When I reboot my laptop, it does not auto re-connect to this (only
network I have defined), instead it tries to create a new public
network (message "Identifying ...(Public Network).." appear in Network
and Sharing Centre), with access type of Local Only - i.e. no internet
access - but it does pick up the wireless sid name / key etc.

At this point, the machine has a local ip address 169.254 ..., it has
not picked up one from the router (but has picked up the DNS server
addresses).

The only way I can resolve this is to click on the red cross that
appears in the network and sharing center window on the link to the
world / internet image, where upon I get various options, 1 of which
is renew IP address for the wireless adaptor. Do this and then it
connects fine to my pre-defined private network.

My network works fine on XP machines.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Josh

I noticed that this post was written in 2007. I'm having the exact same
problem and we are now in 2008!!!! Microsoft, where is the
solution????? Does anyone have the solution to this very irritating
problem?

Thank you!

Rick


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