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Ive been fixing up my Alienware Aurora m9700 Windows XP and

Mar 19, 2018 2:53PM PDT

I’m pretty sure it’s capable of being wireless, it has the antenna icon and it’s lit up. I’ve gone through adapter, rebooted, turned off and on adapters, checked windows zero configuration. I’ve been searching it up and I have no clue what else to do Sad please let me know if you know how to fix this! Thanks

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It's So Old, Wireless Probably No Longer Functions, So.....
Mar 19, 2018 3:17PM PDT

Here, we'd purchase an inexpensive, external USB wireless adapter/dongle, plug it in, and run wireless using the external adapter. You might need to disable the internal wireless adapter in Device Manager first, but it would be your best bet.

Of course, you could first try reinstalling the drivers for your current wireless adapter by visiting Alienware's site.

Hope this helps.

Grif

Post was last edited on March 19, 2018 3:18 PM PDT

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XP? No WiFi for most folk. Here's why.
Mar 19, 2018 3:18PM PDT

You're sort of lucky that at the office we have a few last Mohican XP machines. We had to reload one and XP would not connect to our WiFi hot spots. Here's why.

XP (the original) only supports WiFi WEP and no-security hot spots after we install the machine's motherboard and WiFi drivers.

Since no one today sets their router to no security or just WEP this means no WiFi for Windows XP (the original.)

Since we had a WPA2 secured hot spot we had to get SP3 installed and find new driver which supported WPA2. XP does not have this and a WPA2 driver will not install on XP (original.)

BE CLEAR ON YOUR OS VERSIONS.