WPA on ORiNOCO Mini PCI Card

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Many laptop makers have not updated their drivers to support WPA. By installing the correct drivers manually, many older laptops can get access to the wonders of WPA anyway.


Frequently I have heard people say that WPA is not available to them in XP. I never understood why until I started playing with my old laptop again.

The wireless network device drivers must support WPA for the windows OS to give it as an option.

If you own one of the many laptops with the wireless ORiNOCO chipset, this upgrade will allow you to use WPA.

You are installing unsupported drivers here. Install at your own risk and revert back to your old driver if this doesn’t work well for you.

1. Download the new drivers
2. Uncompress them to a folder on your desktop
3. Goto into the control panel
4. Select System
5. Under the hardware tab click the device manager button
6. Right-click on the ORiNOCO mini PCI Card under the network adapters
7. Select Update Drivers from the context menu
8. Select Install from list or specific location
9. Select Don’t Search. I will select the driver to install.
10. Click Have Disk
11. Navigate to the folder where you uncompressed your drivers
12. Select WLAGSALL.INF
13. Click Open and ignore warnings
14. When the drivers are completed. Reboot.

 

10 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on July 16, 2009

    Gentlemen,

    I also had a WEP card and I also tried to download a new driver. Kept going in circles until I happened to scroll DOWN and found all this info. It worked and I thank you very much. rle

  2. Ctaylor1221 said on December 4, 2009

    Guys THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I’ve been trying to find an soloution to this for hours, your post was wonderful!!!!!

  3. Name said on December 30, 2009

    Thanks a lot for the link

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070323125312/http:...

    this worked great.

  4. Name said on January 10, 2010

    Thank you, works like charm with my Sony Vaio VX71P with built-in Orinoco Mini PCI card. I found an alternative link to the driver http://www.steve-m.de/wlan/orinoco/windows_drivers_sr02-2.3.zip. Updated, rebooted, connected.

    Best regards.

  5. Hanji said on April 14, 2010

    Thank you so much.. I searched and searched like crazy but no luck until I found your method. Thanks again.

    Here’s the updated link btw…

    http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/support/downloads/legacy/windows_drivers_sr02-2.3.zip

  6. Noneneeded said on June 18, 2010

    dead url

  7. Guest said on October 13, 2010

    Links are working. download, install, reboot. But no access possible (WPA TKIP or WPA2). Acer C102Ti AVM 7113 (Netstumbler has been found the SSID)

  8. A Boekelman said on February 19, 2011

    It still works, thank you so much. My dear old laptop has been to the shop for three weeks and they couldn’t fix it. And with your help i did it myself!!! thanks

  9. guest said on June 7, 2011

    Herzlichen Dank !
    Treiber runtergeladen, installiert gebootet und geht.
    Kein Firmware-Update notwendig wie man manchmal gelesen hat.
    Läuft auf Vaio VX71mit Orinoco

  10. Guest said on August 18, 2011

    The update is still working; I updated my Gateway 450 with the archive link above.  I think I can keep this old laptop a little longer.  Thanks

 

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