Sorry to jump in, but I am having the identical problem.
I am rehabilitating a 10 year old Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows XP for a friend.
1. If I connect it via cable to my FIOS cable modem, Bing searches do work, but all links refuse to work with the error message about "going to a secured network" and cannot display.
2. Using wifi, it sees the available networks but cannot connect to them to let me put in the password.
I am attaching my "networkinfo.txt" and would really appreciate help too.
P.S. This might be useful info:
When I tried to install Firefox I got the error message that "This version of Firefox requires a processor with SSE2 support"