Dell Latitude d505 - Wifi Drivers

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I have a Dell Latitude d505 that my stepdad recently bought as a gift for my uncle to use for simple things like Youtube and the WWE Network.

We installed a fresh copy of XP pro, sp2.

I have all the current drivers for it installed, including the ethernet driver, which works fine.

But, I can't seem to get the Wifi to work.

All of the drivers I've tried, from the Dell website, and also from looking up the hardware ID, have either done nothing, or came up with a message like "Cannot Install" "Multi-disk" or something similar.

Anyone have the correct driver for it? Or can provide some light as to why none of the drivers are working?

Also, before, we accidentally installed the same copy over the old copy (have since re-installed clean) and the wifi would show up, but not connect due to "cannot aquire IP". If that helps anything.
 
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Just to be sure, did you get the driver from the following link? Or it's language equivalent? It appears to me to be the correct page for the computer. There are several options for the wlan, so you'll need to find the one that fits the specific configuration. If you have done this, I'd delete all the installed wifi drivers and reinstall. If one driver doesn't work try another...
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Just to be sure, did you get the driver from the following link? Or it's language equivalent? It appears to me to be the correct page for the computer. There are several options for the wlan, so you'll need to find the one that fits the specific configuration. If you have done this, I'd delete all the installed wifi drivers and reinstall. If one driver doesn't work try another.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/latitude-d505/drivers

If that doesn't work, some other options are.

1. Turn off the built in wifi and buy a new usb wifi adapter, they are relatively cheap.

2. Win XP is long out of support and is considered unsafe to use on a networked computer, particularly on the internet. You could set up up a modern and secure, low profile Linux system on this computer. It can be done so that the user has very little to learn to get surfing and other basic computing tasks. One can't say for sure that it Linux will work with the wifi, but it is pretty good at finding hardware these days.
 
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