Having touble setting up wi fi on my xp laptop.

[Dave]

A while back I had wi fi working on my laptop. The problem I have now is
that I had to reload and start over because of numerous infections (
trojans, & viruses & malware etc.). I have a Netgear router with setup
information that was previously installed. I went into Control Panel /
Network connections And tried to activate wireless network connect 3 and it
said acquiring network address Intel(R) Pro/wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection. I chose /clicked on the network I had previously installed and
clicked on Connect. The wireless network connection box came up and asked me
for the network key. It already had a blanked out key in the 2 boxes so I
clicked on connect and it scanned and said acquiring network address. The
problem is that it never acquires the address and puts a red X on the icon
by the clock. I would very much appreciate your help and suggestions on
getting this to work on my XP laptop. It worked just fine before I reloaded
the system. Thanks for your help.


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[Richard G. Harper]

One would suggest that you start by asking Windows XP questions in a Windows
XP newsgroup, possibly one like the microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
newsgroup that would specialize in such problems.

A while back I had wi fi working on my laptop. The problem I have now is

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[Kenny]

I had problems recently with wireless until I realesed I was using the wrong
drivers for the WLAN chipset.
It's a Toshiba laptop and I got the drivers from Intel, Toshiba support
hadn't got the right ones!

 

[Kenny]

Magic Jelly Bean.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

 

[Kenny]

Sorry, that should have went somewhere else.

 

[Gordon]

It's a Toshiba laptop and I got the drivers from Intel, Toshiba support
hadn't got the right ones!

Eh? They should have......