It may be that higher-level parts of the establishment of a connection are
timing out and giving up before lower-level pieces have had time to sort
themselves out.  Can you run "ipconfig /all >foo.txt" and then paste the
foo.txt file into a reply so we can see what it shows when she has just
booted and doesn't have a working connection?

David Gillett


On 27 Sep 2005 at 9:41, Gordon Totty wrote:

> Daughter's Win2K-Pro computer shares Internet connection with me and
> gets a strong signal from the wireless access point, WAP, but on first
> boot it will not connect.  However, if she reboots, it connects to the
> Internet.  This "experiment" has been repeated at least a dozen times,
> so it is not a coincidence.  Why would a reboot be required to
> establish a connection?  How can I fix this for her?
>
> Thanks in advance for any leads on this vexing problem.
>
> Gordon Totty

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