Comments on: 2 days ago my wireless card stopped working. I decided to try with a wireless PCI and that works.

By: Soraya

Soraya — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:04:43 +0000

Hi: My internal wireless card completely stopped working. I have a HP laptop. I uninstalled it and reinstalled the drive but it still doesn’t work. I just bought a wireless usb and uninstalled the old driver and I was getting a signal but nothing is coming through on the screen. Help….

By: steven

steven — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:26:47 +0000

i did a vista update and it worked for now anyway!

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:49:48 +0000

Ugh! I knew about the switch and forgot. Laptop is at home but I bet that’s what the problem is on mine. Thanks.

By: Angelo D

Angelo D — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:06:47 +0000

best advice ever! for me it was the switch on the side!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:14:04 +0000

I bought an HP DV6458SE last year and it was working fine until about november last year… a month after the one year warranty expired. The wireless card started acting up… it will work and will not work until suddenly in January it stopped working at all. HP sent me software updates for the wireless card and to flash the bios. When HP walked me through some steps they said it was weird that the wireless card cannot be detected by the device manager. Anyway the software updates did not work at all and a friend of mine suggested pulling and reinserting the wireless card but its still not working. On top of that the HP wireless assistant is also not working as well as the HP tools that usually runs during the boot up process.

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:46:20 +0000

Toshiba Satelite M35-S311, can’t get the wireless on/off swith to work. Tried toggling the swith but still will not work. I have downloaded just about every available driver from the Toshiba website and still no luck. Router works, because I have a 2nd laptop that isn’t having any problems. Any suggestions?

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:47:29 +0000

I have a HP Compaq F500 and my wireless card has always worked. I started my computer on day and flipped on my wifi switch can it wouldn’t turn blue. I turned off my computer, and restarted it.. and the wifi came on.. but went off about an hour after using it. I’ve read on some websites that hp computers do this often, and it has something to do with the motherboard.. i hope not..
i have the right drivers installed but it still says “this computer does not have network adapter installed and configured” blah i hate this, i realy need my wifi working again and i dont have a waranty anylonger .. if anyone can help email me at caitlin.moore_AT_smail.astate.edu (replace _AT_ with @).
Thanks : )
Caitlin

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:15:30 +0000

Hi all,
I have the exact same problem with my 16 month old presario F560EM (UK), no wireless, can’t detect the Broadcom thingy in the device manager etc etc blah blah. I’ve done all the things that HP recommends, updated BIOS etc but no change. HP are totally denying that this problem exists – even though there are scores of people with the same issues and not just with this model. It’s immensely frustrating to be told that ‘yours must be a one off case’ (quoted to me in an email from a hp tech) and to clearly know there are others with exactly the same issues. Oh, and of course, mine is one of the models that isnt covered by the extended warranty.

Anyway, enough moaning.

I don’t know how far I’ll get, but anything’s worth a try, hopefully if we all get together we can get some help. I’ve emailed the consumer help TV programme Watchdog (UK) and i would be very grateful if all you could email them too – the more people the better chance we have at at least getting HP to add our models to the list of extended warrantees!

Many thanks

Gina

By: reecie

reecie — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:20:43 +0000

Not able to help but exact same thing happened to my Compaq F500 a couple of days ago. orange light wont go blue. I have tried heaps got support help and given new driver but didn’t help. my wireless works with an external dongle but wont recognize the internal wireless. very frustrating in middle of assignment due Arrgg.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:38:17 +0000

I have had my Compaq F560EM(Windows Vista) one year now, I previously had no problems with the wireless. I put the computer into hibernate mode for the first time and the wireless light turned from blue to orange and ever since then I can’t access the my wireless. When i click on “HP Wireless Assistant” in the “Network and Sharing Center” nothing happens

The troubleshoot says that “this computer does not have a wireless network adaptor installed and configured”

I used the system restore but it failed to make the changes.

Any help would be appreciated