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What'* the model of your laptop? Manufacturer?
So you cannot see ANY wireless networks or just not your own?
Have you tried doing a system restore to a time when the wireless was working?
Have you changed anything on the laptop recently, anything at all?
So you cannot see ANY wireless networks or just not your own?
Have you tried doing a system restore to a time when the wireless was working?
Have you changed anything on the laptop recently, anything at all?
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You said there aren't any wires. There'* not been a single laptop I have ever touched that didn't have antenna wires connected to the wireless card. If those get disconnected, your signal becomes zero.
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I have a Toshiba satellite.
I've tried 4 different wireless adapter, I'm thinking a disconnected wire is not the problem.
Windows says the adapter is working fine.
I can not see any wifi networks, I've tried a few, and no luck.
Was over at a friends house tonight. Had 2 IT guys looking it over. They can find no reason for it not to work.
After a lot of talking and looking, we felt there must have been a windows update. It worked fine until I shut the computer off. This is when windows finishes some updates. I'll have to look at doing a restore.
I've tried 4 different wireless adapter, I'm thinking a disconnected wire is not the problem.
Windows says the adapter is working fine.
I can not see any wifi networks, I've tried a few, and no luck.
Was over at a friends house tonight. Had 2 IT guys looking it over. They can find no reason for it not to work.
After a lot of talking and looking, we felt there must have been a windows update. It worked fine until I shut the computer off. This is when windows finishes some updates. I'll have to look at doing a restore.
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I can't see any networks no mater what adapter I use. But yet it works fine on a cable connection.
Trying to find a linux that I can put on a CD and test it that way. If the Wifi works on Linux, then I know it'* not hardware.
Check my restore points, and they only go back a few weeks, and this has been going on for a good month.
Trying to find a linux that I can put on a CD and test it that way. If the Wifi works on Linux, then I know it'* not hardware.
Check my restore points, and they only go back a few weeks, and this has been going on for a good month.
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Ya, if you can find a copy of Umbotu I'm sure I spelled that wrong. Something that I can burn to a CD and make that CD bootable and run off just the CD, or a DVD.
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