Laptop can't connect to internet. Desktop can ping laptop, but laptop can't ping any computer on home network.

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Laptop appears to connect to router by wi-fi when using a fixed IP (192.168.1.8) but doesn't connect to internet. Desktop computer can ping the laptop at 192.168.1.8, but the laptop can't ping any IP on the home network, not even the router at 192.168.1.1

Trying to connect to the internet, I've tried most of the suggestions found here and elsewhere with no luck.

My Android tablet connects to the router and then to the internet just fine.
Laptop runs Windows Home Edition w/ SP2. It's an old Fujitsu.
 
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You can try to reset your winsock settings to defaut. Get this tool here: http://winsockfix.en.softonic.com/, run it and restart you xp machine.
 
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The laptop connects to the internet just fine when hard-wired to the router. The WiFi card is a Hawking Technology HiGain Wireless 150 N, and its drivers are up to date.

The router table of connected devices shows the laptop as a wireless device and is marked as inactive. The router tests connectivity by pinging the laptop 4 times successfully. But the laptop cannot ping the router.
 
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I tried this. It made no difference.
 
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I was mistaken; the router is pinging another wireless device,not the laptop.
I replaced the Hawking Technologies Wi-Fi device with a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter WPC54G Ver. 3.

It also will try forever to get an IP by DHCP from the router. But when I give it a fixed IP, it connects to the wireless network
almost immediately. It doesn't show up in the router's table of devices, however, and it is still not able to access the Internet.

The laptop runs Windows XP Hope edition and has had all the available updates applied. The Linksys has the latest driver.

I see this problem marked as SOLVED, but it certainly isn't.
 
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You can try to disable the firewall settings in your router. Also check if your laptop has a security software installed, like Zone Alarm. It's known, that this software causes problems with some wireless network adaptors. Also check your MAC address filtering option in your router, if is availabale there. Disable it.
 
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