Originally Posted by Downtime

Got a problem here with my laptop and win XP. My laptop crapped out on me so I had to reformat and use the recovery disk to reload everything. Well I did that easily but now with windows xp home reinstalled there's literally no option for wireless internet. No little icon in my system tray, nothing in control panel, nothing in network connections to set one up or even to look for available wireless networks.

What's the deal? Anyone know what the problem is? My only guess atm is to download the latest xp service pack on my desktop, burn it on a cd, then install it on my laptop. Would that fix the problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated!