Have one of these Laptops that I am giving to parents. Was installed with XP but did a clean install to clear all the crap. However when I reinstalled it the wireless adapter was not working? Went into network connections and there was no option? Had a old wireless adapter key and working from that.
When I bought the PC windows was installed and dont think I had any issue with this? Is there a driver I need to install or how can I check that there is a wireless adapter?
If you can download a program called SIV (System Information Viewer) and see what class of Wireless Adapter came with the laptop.
Or else just download all 3 types of driver which came with that model (as listed in the full list - networks tab of that page you linked) and try installing each of them, most likely if they don't find the adapter they won't install.
PS. You should probably do the same for the gfx driver too.
Downloaded the SIV but not sure what I am looking for. Tried downloading drivers but no joy. Have the F2 key with the wireless but not sure if I have turned it off
How can you turn the wireless on in BIOS or check to see if its on?
I would think that it must be enabled in the bios as the wireless network device is detected in windows as "Other devices-Network Controller".
Only a test - but on 'SIV' if you look at the "PCI Bus" list then "Devices" button (bottom right) see if you can see an indication of the wireless device version.
Did none of the 3 wireless driver types install - what errors did they give you ?
