Creating Adhoc network in Vista..

A friend has a PC running Vista Home Premium, and is connected to the internet via a 3G modem, which appears in Vista as a dial-up connection.

She wanted her sister to be able to use her laptop when visiting, so I installed a USB wireless adaptor and created an Adhoc wireless network turning on ICS.

It worked perfectly UNTIL I re-booted the PC.. then although the laptop 'sees' the Adhoc network it cannot connect - it doesn't get to 'acquiring network address" .

If I create a new adhoc network, all is well again with the new one, until re-boot.

Any ideas please?

 

It is acting as it is designed to do in regards to the ICS.
See the next to last note in this article.

 

Thanks, so this is a 'feature' of Vista ? It works fine in XP, but then nothing new there then