Just and FYI for anyone having the same issue, I've bolded the final work around that worked for me.
I had an issue with my girlfriends laptop where vista would some what connect to my wireless router. it would get an IP but not be able to ping the router. the access status under network and sharing center would read "local only" rather than "local and internet."
I tried updating the Atheros WLAN driver and upgrading the router firmware (WRT54G) with no luck. Other sites have said that Vista sometimes has issues connecting if the power scheme is set to power save (so I switched it to performance) no luck
after much hunting and finding out that this problem has gone on as far back as 2006 and new posts still pop up to this day it looks like there is no final one solution (there were literally hundreds of posts on diff. websites with this same issue)
it seems to work a lot better with wireless encryption. In a nut shell it seems vista has an issue with AES encryption which rules out using WPA2 all together. I was forced to use WPA with TKIP encryption to get the laptop working on the wireless connection while keeping the network secure.
Although I'm not quite sure if it's a windows Vista issue or something to do with the wireless driver.
I had an issue with my girlfriends laptop where vista would some what connect to my wireless router. it would get an IP but not be able to ping the router. the access status under network and sharing center would read "local only" rather than "local and internet."
I tried updating the Atheros WLAN driver and upgrading the router firmware (WRT54G) with no luck. Other sites have said that Vista sometimes has issues connecting if the power scheme is set to power save (so I switched it to performance) no luck
after much hunting and finding out that this problem has gone on as far back as 2006 and new posts still pop up to this day it looks like there is no final one solution (there were literally hundreds of posts on diff. websites with this same issue)
it seems to work a lot better with wireless encryption. In a nut shell it seems vista has an issue with AES encryption which rules out using WPA2 all together. I was forced to use WPA with TKIP encryption to get the laptop working on the wireless connection while keeping the network secure.
Although I'm not quite sure if it's a windows Vista issue or something to do with the wireless driver.
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