So I recently put in a new hard drive on my laptop and installed XP sp3. I installed the wlan driver via HP's website. The driver appeared in Device Manager and was said to be enabled and working. And it was, because Network Stumbler was able to find networks. But Wireless Zero Configuration couldn't find any, so I couldn't connect to wifi. Then I went to the Windows update site and applied a bunch of updates, one of which was for my wlan driver. I was hoping one of the other 100+ applied to WZC. After rebooting, WZC found my network and connected just fine. I thought problem solved. But then after rebooting again, it stopped working. When Windows loads, the wireless icon says 'Acquiring network address' forever. It says the SSID and signal strength (Excellent) but can't acquire address, and when I view the list of available wireless networks, it's empty (empty after refreshing as well). So it seems to know the network is there but it says no networks are in range. Just like before, NetStumbler finds the networks (if only it could also connect to networks so I wouldn't need WZC at all...). My laptop's wireless button is on, wlan is on, my BIOS isn't preventing wireless connections, I don't have any AV or software firewall installed. I'm out of ideas.
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