Cant get online with my Dell Inspiron 2200

Hi Great site! I found it on google.

24 hours ago reformatted my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop which runs xp. After the reformat I re-installed windows xp and the drivers form the cd. Im not sure I got all the drivers because there are a dozens of them, but I think I got them all.

This computer has an internal wireless card. But After the reformat I cant get online anymore.
I cant find that small green icon anymore that shows the wireless connections in my area. I cant figure out how to get it.

heres what Ive done:

1. I downloaded xp service pack 2 on my other computer and ran it on this desktop. But it made no difference I still cant get on.

2. I did the fn + f2 and yes, it shows im on.. But I cant get online.

3. Ive played around in the Network COnnections area and made every single kind of connection, and I still cant connect.

4. I went into control panel / system / hardware profiles and under "Other devices" theres a block of deviced that have the yellow ?/! on them.
But, when I pop my cd in to update the drivers, it doesnt find them on the cd

It goes to the CD and looks at d:\ (where the cd is) and says it cant find the driver. Im using the DELL cd's, but I dont know where on the cd to look.
Then it asks to go online to look for the driver. Grrrr, I cant get online.

Ive been struggling with this for 20 hours and im so beat. any ideas?

thanks!

 

Thanks TerryNet! Ill try that.

 

Terry,

Sorry to ask this but I didnt see any Wireless adapter drivers. i did see a networking driver but theres a huge list of them and they all say "wireless" in them.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...=&SystemID=INSPIRON+2200&hidos=WW1&hidlang=en

Do you know what I should install from ths list?

 

Oh I dont know the name of my integrated wireless adapter and dont know how to find it.

I didnt want to list my service tag on the net. But those are the same results that I got when I put my service tag in.

I just downloaded all of them, burned them on to a cd and put them in my laptop, and when I try to update my drivers and say to look on the d drive, Windows gives an error: "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware".
Unreal. I dont even think it looked, just gives that error right away.

I copied all the drivers into my Windows folder and now when I select to look in that folder it wont allow me. It grays out the next button.

Ths is like an april fools joke on me. Everything I try to fix the problem Windows or Dell wont let me.

 

Why don't you tell us EXACTLY what those "other devices" are described as in Device Manager?