how to get wireless network on laptop

I have a laptop a dell inspiron 1100 and after i reinstalled window there is no wireless network on the computer and the internet connections are all messed up so I have no internet on it any ideas how to fix?

When you reinstalled the OS did you install your wireless network card?

def. a driver issue

do you have the dell cd’s? There should be a driver disk.

I tried reinstalling the drivers off the disk and the ones for the wireless and nothing? They have ones for dell network cards but im pretty sure this laptop doesnt have a internal card I have tried all them. Maybe the correct on is on the windows cd?

What version windows? I doubt a generic windows driver will work. IS this card internal or cardbus?

windows xp. the driver disk has drivers for wireless but none of them work and i think those are maybe for a different model and those say internal dell card or something like that. Im pretty sure this is cardbus

plug into a wire and go to windows update. it should give you a driver that will work.

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Im pretty sure this is cardbus

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If it’s cardbus, pull the card out and see what manuf. is written on it.

Its a netgear card and I know it works since it works on my other laptop

Ok so its a PCMCIA card? What model? Download that models driver and install and it will work.