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Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. How to do Wireless with Windows ?? Thread starter Nancy Start date Dec 14, Forums Networking Wireless Networking. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next. Nancy Distinguished. Apr 9, 67 0 18, 0. Archived from groups: microsoft. Hello everybody, I hope somebody will be able to help me.

I have 2 laptops at home that I want to use wireless. To do that, I recently bought and installed a LinkSys Access point.

Since the first laptop uses Windows XP, I had no problem to make it work wireless. Instantly the computer has detected the wireless connection. It is with the other computer that I have problem. The second computer does not use XP but Windows professional with a Centrino processor by the way, I cannot uninstall Windows and replace it by XP, I have to keep Windows I have read that Windows , even if I have a Centrino processor, is not made to automatically work wireless.

Can someone tell me, what I need to do or to install in order to make my second laptop work wireless and detect the wireless connection around. The wireless bridge solution can be temporary, too. EdC and dpaul, now that I have a better understanding, I thank you and I am pursuing this route. Any thoughts on a retailer that might stock this type of item in a brick and mortar? Turns out, this machine has been down since Monday. I was pulled in about pm yesterday.

There is a lot of pressure to get it up and running NOW. You'll have to set the wireless part to be a client and to connect to your existing WLAN instead of broadcast it's own. Each brand seems to word it just a little bit different.

It'll also help to install all your. You may need to check the netgear site to see what runtimes they recommend.

Also ensure your OS is fully up to date and patched. The price was good and best of all it was available for pick up yesterday! Configuration was easy peasy, and it worked like a charm. In this case, each icon represents a network or dial-up networking session. Simply double-click the icon called Make New Connection to create new network or dial-up networking connections.

Windows then launches a wizard that guides you through the process. You can use the individual connection icons to review or modify connection properties. Laptops and disappearing networking icons Laptop computers behave a bit differently.

On a laptop system, the Network And Dial Up Connections window would still contain the Make New Connection icon, but it would probably also contain one or two icons related to dial-up networking. One icon might be used to connect to an Internet service provider, while the second icon might allow a dial-up connection to a corporate RAS server.

Laptops also have icons for LAN connections in this folder, but their behavior is strange. When the computer is connected to one of these devices, the icon for it exists. However, when you remove a PCMCIA card or disconnect from a docking station that contains a network card, the connection icon disappears until the network device is reconnected.

This wireless networking requires a special network card. When I switch network cards, the icons change. It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Did you know a small program who make that? Excuse me for my poor english, I'm French Windows XP has a special service called Wireless Zero Configuration in English at least that handles the various duties of scanning for networks and associating with them.

This service, and the related GUI elements were never back ported to Windows That being said, every wireless card I have ever used that had a Windows driver also came with a utility that would manage the connections as well. You will have trouble finding a generic utility as the API for working with the card was not standardized prior to Windows XP and each driver can in theory behave differently. Actually you'll just need to install the manufacture's Wifi driver and client software in order to get wifi to work under Windows Before you do that though, you'll have to upgrade the Windows Installer using the Windows Installer 3.

Actually quite a few software depends on this later Windows Installer to work. Just to give you an idea, I just made this posting from Windows Pro using Firefox 37 using an Intel wifi card.