Jain,
I had WiDi working intermitently. 99% of the time it would not find the adapter and time out, but some times it would connect OK. I have Belkin screencast adapter, Asus i7 cpu 64 bit laptop win7-64bit. When it would connect, it worked perfect, until I would shut it down.
I have been at this problem with Intel for 8 months now. (I have 25+ yrs as a software developer). Tonight I run the Widi update checker, it finds new updates, and installs them to;
"Proset/wireless wifi software version 16.7.0" Widi now finds the adapter immediately and makes the handshake, the adapter says connected to intel WiDi, but then the WiDi software says "could not obtain network address". I never had this error before the update, so now it is introduced with the latest intel software update. Through out this thread responses also talk about "My WIFI" panel and my wifi program? what is this? Is it the Widi app, or is it the Dashboard app? These are the only 2 apps I use? Never heard of "MY Wifi Panel" ? If I type "my wifi" in the win7 start button cmd box, it only return my 2 apps mentioned above. simply called, intel widi, and intel widi wiget?
I am amazed that open source android uses the same WiDi protocol (ie miracast) flawlessly, and works on my Samsung 8.1 tablet, every time. I never get an error. While a different cpu architecture, the software communications protocol is the identical, to the degree that the Belkin adapter thinks it is Intel and even responds with msg "Intel WiDi connected", it has no idea it is connected to android. So what do I do now, an please do not ask to uninstall/reinstall. Why would the new update not be able to obtain the network address when the old version of the software did. 99% of the people trying Widi seem to have serious (NOT WORKING) problems. Network address problems in Intel software, running on an Intel i7 quad CPU and Intel centrino chipset, come on guys! I could find this problem in a few days if I had the code. I had also recommended in the past for Intel to implement a debug option, to allow dumps of variables or instruction steping, even allow Intel programers to login remotely (with customers approval of course) and let them run in debug mode. They would find every problem in 1 day. Since android is open source the Widi protocol must not be propritery, I guess I could look at the android code.