in this redundant post 2. For dead internet.
And hach2 wifi is empty no day1 factory option WIFI , zero
so the previous owner bought this USB device long ago... my guess..... logical no?
Ie: dead Ethernet and now
dead unknown USB wifi. dongle.
i will show the steps to finding the wifi USB
Idents.
I will attempt the long way. (getting Ethernet working first is smarter below is bucking the realities of that)
- test the USB port under test with mouse first to see if the port is working, ok it works. (if not fix USB ports dead first, ask.)
- Plug in the unstated, unknown wifi USB device.
- The XP goes ding dongg sound with USB inserted but fails to load this driver,for it, because XP does not support it directly nor is your internet working so PNP is dead, for all things.
- Go do DM now, using CP + System +Hardware + device manager, you should have DM down pat now, ok? going there.
- You then see the USB device and its RED marked, as bad, sure it is. no driver, for it. as expected with USB devices 1000s not supported by XP, endless,,, so you then.,
- right click the dead USB wifi device there. and pick properties
- on the properties page see tab details. click that.
- now see the below example photo, see me picking
- Device instance ID and seeing the PCI\VEN codes.
- write down that whole ID line and i can get the driver for you .
- as can vast other trained techs, we look at ms.com first.
this is only and example your names at top are different
there vast numbers of usb wifi sold for 18 years. vast.
which one you have nobody knows lacking VEN and DEV codes
btw: we can do the above on all things dead in DM.
learn the codes, and drivers, get 10x more easy to find
on all relic, PC 13 years old even 2001 , XP PC.
even 18 years old. after all HP ended support a long long time ago on relic PCs.
"DM" = Device manager, if unsure what that means
watch youtube, see 100s teaching how to use relic OS XP there.
"how to use XP device manager" there.
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