Am i doing something wrong here.

I have the Intel pro set wifi on my laptop, which happily finds wifi networks.

i connect to an unsecured network and then in IE set to automatically detect LAN connection settings and it never finds a page. it just sits there 'detecting settings'

do i need to set something else?

 

Have you tried temporarily disabling the firewall ?

 

ip address ? dns addresses ?

Are you set for dhcp, and if so are you getting an address from the wireless device

 

how do i check those?