Give a driver booster a go.

So you have other Windows XP systems connected to your wireless network? What encryption are you running? You might lookup the specs of the card and see what it supports. I had the same problem once and I took my WPA2 encryption and lowered it to WPA and it solved the issue. Don't remember offhand what card it was.

You might consider completely disabling encryption temporarily on your router and seeing if you can connect then. It will at least narrow down the problem if it is encryption related or not.

I remember 100% that this card does support WPA2. I connected to networks using Vista and 7 on this laptop. This HP laptop model only has support for 7 and later (But Vista works completely fine using 7 drivers!). In my case xp is unsupported. I can try driver booster if my Ethernet drivers were properly installed (I need to test them!)

The reason I mention driver booster is because I did a XP downgrade on a similar machine. It's a 14" Compaq notebook with E-300 APU. Driver booster found all the drivers, Ethernet, wireless, graphics, card reader...

On another notebook the wireless kept dropping the connection, so here I just got a generic Realtek 802.11n NIC. It's a tiny USB thingy, smaller than a thumb drive and works great 😀

Like this for example: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-150Mbps-Wirel … SQAAOSwoudW6yYV

I have a trick for connecting old systems with weird/non working wifi drivers and cards to wireless. I use an external router, an mini/pocket size one that I got very cheap (WT2030, about $15 on aliexpress) and that I installed OpenWRT on, then configured to connect as a wireless bridge to my home wifi router. All I have to do is connect the WT3020 through a short piece of LAN cable to the system I want to get online and bam! instant wifi access. No messing with wifi drivers etc. That of course works on systems that have a working ethernet card and can use DHCP. The mini-router I mentioned is very small, about the size of a box of matches. The microUSB connector is for power only.

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Does anyone know how to make Windows XP permanently remove a driver? The driver installed maybe incompatible...
I'm asking the same question on MSFN with no luck...

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I have a trick for connecting old systems with weird/non working wifi drivers and cards to wireless. I use an external router, an mini/pocket size one that I got very cheap (WT2030, about $15 on aliexpress) and that I installed OpenWRT on, then configured to connect as a wireless bridge to my home wifi router. All I have to do is connect the WT3020 through a short piece of LAN cable to the system I want to get online and bam! instant wifi access. No messing with wifi drivers etc. That of course works on systems that have a working ethernet card and can use DHCP. The mini-router I mentioned is very small, about the size of a box of matches. The microUSB connector is for power only.

Don't wanna come off as a smartass, but it's WT3020, not 2030 😀

The easiest way to find as many sellers as possible on Ebay/Aliexpress is to search for Nexx, instead of the specific chipset designation. There are few variants of the WT3020 out there.

The OpenWRT wiki has a page explaining the different variants and their features. If you intend to flash it with OpenWRT I'd guess it's a good idea to avoid the 4MB flash model.

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I have a trick for connecting old systems with weird/non working wifi drivers and cards to wireless. I use an external router, an mini/pocket size one that I got very cheap (WT2030, about $15 on aliexpress) and that I installed OpenWRT on, then configured to connect as a wireless bridge to my home wifi router. All I have to do is connect the WT3020 through a short piece of LAN cable to the system I want to get online and bam! instant wifi access. No messing with wifi drivers etc. That of course works on systems that have a working ethernet card and can use DHCP. The mini-router I mentioned is very small, about the size of a box of matches. The microUSB connector is for power only.

Don't wanna come off as a smartass, but it's WT3020, not 2030 😀

The easiest way to find as many sellers as possible on Ebay/Aliexpress is to search for Nexx, instead of the specific chipset designation. There are few variants of the WT3020 out there.

The OpenWRT wiki has a page explaining the different variants and their features. If you intend to flash it with OpenWRT I'd guess it's a good idea to avoid the 4MB flash model.

Yeah WT3020, my bad. NEXX returns many more results for different other routers because it's a company name, WT3020 is the specific router model (not the chipset). The variant of the router is pretty much irrelevant as it pertains to what version the built-in software is (which I replaced anyway) as long as you avoid the "A" variant which has a smaller amount of flash memory compared to the others. But even that is irrelevant as you can upgrade the amount of flash as I've shown in this thread: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=54717

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stamasd wrote:

I have a trick for connecting old systems with weird/non working wifi drivers and cards to wireless. I use an external router, an mini/pocket size one that I got very cheap (WT2030, about $15 on aliexpress) and that I installed OpenWRT on, then configured to connect as a wireless bridge to my home wifi router. All I have to do is connect the WT3020 through a short piece of LAN cable to the system I want to get online and bam! instant wifi access. No messing with wifi drivers etc. That of course works on systems that have a working ethernet card and can use DHCP. The mini-router I mentioned is very small, about the size of a box of matches. The microUSB connector is for power only.

Don't wanna come off as a smartass, but it's WT3020, not 2030 😀

The easiest way to find as many sellers as possible on Ebay/Aliexpress is to search for Nexx, instead of the specific chipset designation. There are few variants of the WT3020 out there.

The OpenWRT wiki has a page explaining the different variants and their features. If you intend to flash it with OpenWRT I'd guess it's a good idea to avoid the 4MB flash model.

Yeah WT3020, my bad. NEXX returns many more results for different other routers because it's a company name, WT3020 is the specific router model (not the chipset). The variant of the router is pretty much irrelevant as it pertains to what version the built-in software is (which I replaced anyway) as long as you avoid the "A" variant which has a smaller amount of flash memory compared to the others. But even that is irrelevant as you can upgrade the amount of flash as I've shown in this thread: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=54717

You're absolutely right, it's the router model, not the chipset! Good, then we're even in the smartass department 😁

Desoldering an SM chip isn't completely trivial without a hot-air station, even with only 8 pins like that one. It's nothing I'd recommend as a first soldering project at least. Most people would be best off simply buying one of the 8 MB models; it's enough for a simple bridging task, and you get some margins for possible higher requirements of future OpenWRT releases 😀

Also, good taste in beer I see! Brewing this one on saturday if the weather won't allow me to go to my summer house. Definitely one of my best compositions:

1Recipe: Heavy Fuel Oil  (20 l) 
2Brewer: 
3Asst Brewer: 
4Style: Imperial Stout
5TYPE: All Grain
6Taste: (30.0) 
7
8Recipe Specifications
9--------------------------
10Boil Size: 23.64 l
11Post Boil Volume: 20.80 l
12Batch Size (fermenter): 20.00 l   
13Bottling Volume: 19.50 l
14Estimated OG: 1.109 SG
15Estimated Color: 134.5 EBC
16Estimated IBU: 104.2 IBUs
17Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
18Est Mash Efficiency: 72.0 %
19Boil Time: 90 Minutes
20
21Ingredients:
22------------
23Amt                   Name                                     Type          #        %/IBU         
247.00 kg               Pale Malt, Maris Otter (5.9 EBC)         Grain         1        70.0 %        
251.20 kg               Brown Malt (128.1 EBC)                   Grain         2        12.0 %        
260.80 kg               Caramunich Malt (110.3 EBC)              Grain         3        8.0 %         
270.50 kg               Carafa III (1034.3 EBC)                  Grain         4        5.0 %         
280.50 kg               Chocolate Malt (886.5 EBC)               Grain         5        5.0 %         
29100.00 g              Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 90.0 min Hop           6        71.4 IBUs     
30100.00 g              Saaz [4.00 %] - Boil 75.0 min            Hop           7        32.8 IBUs     
311.0 pkg               American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [124 Yeast         8        -             
32
33
34Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Full Body, No Mash Out
35Total Grain Weight: 10.00 kg
36----------------------------
37Name              Description                             Step Temperat Step Time     
38Mash In           Add 26.38 l of water at 75.6 C          68.9 C        45 min        
39
40Sparge: Fly sparge with 7.58 l water at 75.6 C

Completely OT: Nice recipe. I should give it a try sometime, though I'm not setup for a 10-kg bill - 5kg is the most I can handle. Haven't brewed anything for over a year. Porters and stouts are right up my alley, but I'm partial to the bocks and doppelbocks. Which reminds me, I have to install today the trellises for my hops, or else they'll grow all along the ground which isn't good ( I have 1 rhizome of Cascade, 1 of Zeus and 3 of Sterling)

Desoldering SOIC chips isn't too hard. I do it with a temperature-controlled station and a razor blade. 😀

Well I found out this is an odd case...the wireless adapter did work after all by connecting to non-WPA2 routers. It seems either XP's WPA2 function didn't work properly despite being SP3 (Even after upgraded to unofficial SP4) or my card didn't support WPA2 or something despite having WPA2 on Windows Vista and later...Well I found the solution on my own, downloaded biongo wireless for W2K and XP and now I can connect to WPA2 routers again! HOORAY! (Thank you so much for teaching me about wireless utilities, you wireless utility-less Windows 9x and 2000!)