The laptop keeps telling me to turn on the hardware radio and when I go there the line item does not allow an activation. I have looked all over the computer and cannot find any manual switch.
SOURCE: WIFI
Sounds like one of these problems.
1) The wireless hardware is turned off in the BIOS. Reboot and check to see if there is an entry in the BIOS for the embedded wireless card and if so make sure it is set to ON.
2) The hardware is not recognised because the drivers are not properly installed. Check in DEVICE MANAGER to see if the wireless appears at all, and if it is in an error state. If so, re-install latest drivers from the manufacturer's web site.
3) Other software necessary may be missing. Some machines have wireless manager clients that they need to access the card. Check on the manufacturers' web site for these utilities, and if found, install them and reboot watching for new (different) problems to arise.
4) You could have buggered wireless hardware, but this seems pretty unlikely. Some wireless cards are add-ins and can be removed from the laptop motherboard by accessing them through a door on the bottom of the unit. If that is the case with your machine, power down the unit and remove the wireless card. Check in the hardware manager to make sure no device errors for the card remain, and if they do, remove the hardware by right-clicking on the error device icon and clicking on REMOVE HARDWARE. Then, power down and re-insert the wireless card and reboot and try a clean install.
Good luck...
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nightshifter
That's where it's headed.
I thought I overlook something.
Thanks
SOURCE: Where's the switch to turn on wireless networking?
The wireless switch is on the front bottom of the laptop. It should be blue when ON and red when OFF
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Solution: remove cover plate on bottom and make sure black wire runs to Main and white wire runs to AUX
SOURCE: Lost internet access WiFi and direct
Go to control panel > Device Manager > scroll down to the network devices and click on the plus sign. Highlight the wireless device. Right click on it and choose uninstall. click ok and reboot the system. When windows reloads, it will recognice the new device and want to load the drivers for it. It may ask you if it can search windows update for a fresh driver, allow it to continue. The drivers will load and the correct settings applied. All should be as it should.
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