So a few years ago, my sister moved away and left me her desktop computer for gaming and stuff. It's an Acer Aspire, and it was pretty old when she gave it to me, so it's super old now, but it still works and operates on Windows XP. I then brought it to university when I moved away this past summer, where I hooked it up with the school's wireless internet and used it successfully for the better part of a semester. One day, the wireless connection suddenly stopped working altogether, so I tried a few different fixes but found that the software for my adapter was ridiculously unprofessional (full of typos, etc). I gave up on it and decided that it was probably just a cheap adapter that stopped working, so when I went home for Christmas I got a new one (D-Link DWA-130).
I came back and installed the drivers, plugged in the adapter, set everything up. The Found New Hardware Wizard kept popping up insisting that the adapter was an Ethernet Controller and that I didn't have the software for it, but I kind of just ignored that. When it was all ready, I tried to set up my wireless connection to the school network through the D-Link connection manager, only to find that it was the exact same program my other adapter used and wouldn't let me put in my login credentials. To get around this, I went into my wireless connection properties and checked the "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" box. After that, I went on my school website (because my phone and laptop can still connect to the network) and followed the instructions there for manually configuring my wireless connection properties.
It kind of worked, and came up with a bubble to put in my login credentials, and then it started to connect to the school internet. After a bit of waiting, I realized that it was stuck in the "Attempting to authenticate" stage, and wouldn't actually connect. Sometimes it would disconnect entirely and attempt to reconnect again, and sometimes it would show up as being connected but still wouldn't allow internet access. When I repair the connection, it says "TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection. Cannot Proceed." I called tech support at my school, re-installed the drivers twice, restarted my computer countless times, but nothing works.
Any ideas?
I came back and installed the drivers, plugged in the adapter, set everything up. The Found New Hardware Wizard kept popping up insisting that the adapter was an Ethernet Controller and that I didn't have the software for it, but I kind of just ignored that. When it was all ready, I tried to set up my wireless connection to the school network through the D-Link connection manager, only to find that it was the exact same program my other adapter used and wouldn't let me put in my login credentials. To get around this, I went into my wireless connection properties and checked the "Use Windows to configure my wireless network settings" box. After that, I went on my school website (because my phone and laptop can still connect to the network) and followed the instructions there for manually configuring my wireless connection properties.
It kind of worked, and came up with a bubble to put in my login credentials, and then it started to connect to the school internet. After a bit of waiting, I realized that it was stuck in the "Attempting to authenticate" stage, and wouldn't actually connect. Sometimes it would disconnect entirely and attempt to reconnect again, and sometimes it would show up as being connected but still wouldn't allow internet access. When I repair the connection, it says "TCP/IP is not enabled for this connection. Cannot Proceed." I called tech support at my school, re-installed the drivers twice, restarted my computer countless times, but nothing works.
Any ideas?
