Do you have a wireless router that accepts WIFI?
If you do, go into your router setup and add the new Vista laptop IP/MAC
address.
Then go to main computer and allow this computer permission to access the
network files.
Hope this helps - KJ
"Pete" <Pete@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a new windows vista home premium laptop with built in wifi. I cannot
> see my network in the chose a netwrok to connect to window. I can see this
> network on all of my windows xp and windows 98 wireless computers. It is
> not
> just my network because none of the other networks I typicly see on my
> other
> computers show up either. How can I configure vista so that my network
> will
> appear.