Ok, so I was troubleshooting with someone over the phone with this for too
long. I had him connect his computer direct to the router (Netgear) to
verify good Internet connectivity, which was good. Also had him log in to
the router and check settings, but he did NOT change any. Then when he
unplugged the cable, the wireless magically connected. He had never
connected the laptop before direct to the router. My guess, there is a
setting in the router that was hating the pc until he plugged it in and the
router and pc became buddies. I really have no clue why it would work after
that, but it is Vista.

"Rook" wrote:

> Holysmoke - i'm having the same exact problem. However, this has occurred
> because i upgraded my home wireless network to a new belkin wireless N
> router. I set up the WEP encyrption and got all of my PCs seeing and using
> the router again. All of the PCs use USB adapters to connect to the router -
> and I could easily connect and put in the WEP encryption key to use.
> However, I tried connecting my Vista based laptop, and it sees the network
> fine, but when i try to connect, it wants a username, password, and logon
> domain. I never set up any sort of username or password for my router - just
> the 128WEP key. What do i put in these fields to get my vista laptop talking
> to my new router?
>
> Upton - were you able to find out the problem?
> "Upton Sinclair" wrote:
>
> > I am having difficulty connecting to the wireless network that my apartment
> > building provides. I just purchased a new computer with Windows Vista. On my
> > old computer, which had Windows XP, I had no problems. All XP required of me
> > was to enter the password that my landlord provided to me in order to access
> > the secured wireless network. However, now that I have Vista, I try to
> > connect and it asks me for: 1. Username, 2. Password and 3. Log on Domain.
> > The only information I have is the password which worked on XP before. When I
> > enter only that, I get a message saying "Additional Log on Information
> > Required" or something to that effect. I don't have any more information than
> > that.
> >
> > Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated.