Vista - Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers

I have a couple of vista machine and they have both been driving me
crazy by not connecting to wireless or wired networks. My most recent
experience was I could not connect to a Vodafone Wireless Hotspot on
my Sony UX Palmtop in a hotel. I was absolutely livid and blamed it on
Vodafone's stupid technology. (I launched command prompt then IPCONFIG
and see disconnected under DCHP server).

However, checing on the net today (back from holiday) I see it's
probably a Vista problem. Here is an article about how to edit the
registy to fix it for a network adapter:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233

But this is rubbish. I have to now fix each adapter on each machine?
Is there a .exe I can just just to fix each machine?

Vista is a nighmare and I wish I could downgrade my new laptops to XP
(not an easy task with all those drivers). If it was not for this
forum looking for answers and asking questions I would be screwed.
What must Joe Public think?

I read about Microsoft launching a wine called "Blue Monster - Change
the World or Go Home". Nice thoughts but what the hell has really
happend at Microsoft? Once it built the best stuff in the world - now
its products are buggy as the old wordperfect for windows and it's
interfaces as unusable as lotus notes. Almost no one else can write
software, and certainly no one else on the same scale, so the world
has been ruined.

Thanks

[here is a command in vista under the registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\[^{your interface key]

and the Registry command
DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag is set to 1 by the operating system.
This command is famous to give troube for wireless interfaces, and is resolved by changing it to 0.

another problems are with things like rss and autotuninglevel too.


To help to renew the ip from the registry might help this key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Enum

and to the NextInstance changeded it from 1 to 0 help by reboot the ip.

how am i supposed to know the GUID of the interface card? there are
several GUIDs there...

I don't undeerstand you say change 1 to 0 in
DhcpConnForceBroadcastFlag and the other article says add
DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle with value 1

Ah here is more on this vista networking issue:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xp=&sloc=en-us

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FIXING VISTA WIRELESS NETWORKING PROBLEMS -
LOCAL ONLY ACCESS
By: Bill Wood

....if you get a "local only" message from Vista, the built-in DHCP
router in your Router / Wireless Access Point probably is NOT
compatible with Vista...

Here is one solution that may work for SOME routers (but it does NOT
work for
all of them including many dLink!)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

If this does not work, and you still get the "local only" message, but
you
KNOW the access point works with XP wireless, etc., then MANUALLY SET
the IP
address info. Unfortunately, if you have to manually set the IP info,
you
will have to delete those settings with other wireless access points.

PROBLEM: If you don't don;t know the info - eg a Wireless Hotspot you
are stuffed.

VISTA does not work with most hotspots.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928152/en-us ; (affects mostly
wireless on
laptops)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929847/en-us ; (Vista and XP together
in a
wireless environment)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822596


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931550/en-us ; (MS Does not provide a
solution, only info. Like the other options, you will likely have to
MANUALLY set up your IP info in the adapter, or purchase a new
wireless
access point.)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929824/en-us ; (problems if you have
the SAME
Gateway address as the one assigned to the computer you are trying to
connect
to the Wireless spot).

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To see your adapter info, use a command prompt window (Start > Run >
type in
CMD) and then type:

ipconfig /all

Find your network adapter and write down the Gateway, DNS, IP Address,
and
other settings.


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Regardless of the problem, if you KNOW the wireless spot works, and
you had
little or no trouble on XP, try MANUALLY setting up the IP info for
that
wireless access point.

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I'm VERY disappointed at how many problems there are with the Vista
wireless
networking. Especially when SO MANY of the early Vista users are
exactly the
same customer base that USES WIRELESS!

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