When starting up my desktop PC (Windows XP Pro) it takes up to a few
minutes before my WIFI-card (Sweex Wireless LAN PCi Card 54 Mbps) sees
my Gateway (LinkSys WAG54G Wireless-G ADSL Gateway which I use as a
wireless router) as an available wireless network.
In the Wireless Networks settings of my WIFI-card my network is the
only entry in the list 'automatic' at 'Preferable
networks' (Translated from a dutch system, I don't know the exact
terminology on your system ;-) ).
I use WPA-Pre Shared Key with TKIP coding and a preset key.
Every device has a fixed IP (which I'm not going to change after all
the head-ache making it work... DHCP breaks the ADSL connection on the
desktop PC)... There are no IP-
conflicts, the Gateway is within a 50 cm range of the PC and when it
connects it shows as a 100% connection, but only after a manual reset
of the WIFI-card.
It's pretty weird because with both of my Laptops (with the exact same
settings as the desktop PC) connect immediately after startup.
Looks like something's wrong with the startup-order of services/apps
on the desktop PC that cause this problem. But I have no idea on how
to see or solve this.
Connection problem on wireless LAN 
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