How do I add another laptop to my home network?

Question

I have a Virgin Media broadband connection via Netgear Wireless router plugged into a modem. I set this up using our existing laptop, which runs on Windows 7 OS. 

I now want to add another laptop to the network which runs on Windows XP Professional but I don't know how! 

The XP laptop has been wiped and had the OS reinstalled on it, so I'm starting from scratch. 

I currently connect wirelessly to the home network on our W7 laptop, but I can't even figure out how to set up wifi on the new laptop. I know its capable of it. 

I've tried running the wizards and plugging the XP laptop into the Wireless router, but I really don't know what I'm doing!!

Please help!! :)

Sam · Accepted Answer

It is usually pretty easy to connect to the wireless network through the network connections tab, by the sound of things you might be missing a driver for your network card, right click My Computer >> Properties >> Device Manager (in there somewhere) see whether under Network Adapters you have any hardware with a yellow marker next to it, if you can get a connection through using a cable then just right click the hardware and update the driver software, otherwise use your other computer to download the driver from the hardware manufacturer of the laptop and put it on a usb stick / disk.

Rob Boner · Answer

easiest way is go to control panel, network and sharing center, manage wireless networks, click your network and then copy to usb flash drive then transfer the network settings to the xp machine

battiato · Answer

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