Locating old drivers

Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:14

Hi,

I am reinstalling a fresh copy of xp on my sisters old inspiron 2200 laptop to give it a new lease of life.

all going well so far but I cant find the drivers for wireless! so cant get it on the net to update windows and everything else

On the dell website it lists 3 network drivers for inspiron 2200, installed them (from a usb stick) now the LAN adapter is recognised but still no wireless.

This wouldn't be too much of a problem if the LAN worked but when I plug the ethernet in it aquires ip address for ages then has limited or no connectivity! so doesn't work basically.

where do you guys go for old drivers you need?

the adapter is a broadcom 4318 as found from the device id

thanks !

this_is_gav · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:26

They're on the Dell website. They might not be the most up to date drivers, but you're using XP, so everything is outdated

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Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:39

Arge said:
On the dell website it lists 3 network drivers for inspiron 2200, installed them (from a usb stick) now the LAN adapter is recognised but still no wireless.

This wouldn't be too much of a problem if the LAN worked but when I plug the ethernet in it aquires ip address for ages then has limited or no connectivity! so doesn't work basically.

Unfortunately that hasn't worked!

this_is_gav · 3 Aug 2014 at 20:52

Arge said:
Unfortunately that hasn't worked!

Have you tried both? The Intel 2915 ones and Dell 1350 ones (which as I remember from our Vostros are Broadcom-based)?

Surveyor · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:00

http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDo...river-5107914-for-2000-XP-Download-78223.html

Or http://download.cnet.com/Broadcom-WLAN-4318-Driver-4-102-15-56-zip/3000-2112_4-209977.html

Click on "Direct Download Link" to cut out all the crap.

Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:00

they don't come up as drivers if I search for inspiron 2200, will search the dell site to see if I can find them

Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:20

Surveyor said:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDo...river-5107914-for-2000-XP-Download-78223.html

Or http://download.cnet.com/Broadcom-WLAN-4318-Driver-4-102-15-56-zip/3000-2112_4-209977.html

Click on "Direct Download Link" to cut out all the crap.

Thanks, the links worked great!

now have the wireless adapter recognised and showing up in the task bar

for some reason though its not finding my wireless network.. hmm

any ideas?

Surveyor · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:23

Strange that wired and wireless aren't connecting.

I assume your router is working properly otherwise you wouldn't be downloading stuff and posting here.

Edit:

Dell Inspiron 2200 - Can't Connect to Internet?

There may be some things there you can try.

Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:33

you hero!

thanks mate, going into the bios and resetting to defaults worked!

not sure what setting was screwing that up but hey

thanks again

Surveyor · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:36

You're welcome.

I hope your sister is happy with her "new" laptop.

d_brennen · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:39

Great stuff, now wipe it again and put a modern OS on there

Arge · 3 Aug 2014 at 21:46

haha yeh i know its old!

its only a celeron m with 512mb ram though, think anything else would kill it off!