Cant active my wireless, button broke

[clarkey01]

Hello everyone, any chance someone can tell me how to active my wireless seeing as the button has broke ?

I looked in device manager but I cant see anything which will let me turn it on and search for networks.

Cheers

 

[HN]

"the button"? is this a laptop or a wireless card type thing?

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: HN
"the button"? is this a laptop or a wireless card type thing?

laptop..Usually I'd press this button and its actives my wireless network card and I can search for networks, but now the button is broken I cant access anything, and theres no options in the device manager or bios to turn it on. Any ideas?

 

[HN]

on a laptop, there might be also a key combination that you can press to reactivate the wireless. also check in BIOS

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: HN
on a laptop, there might be also a key combination that you can press to reactivate the wireless. also check in BIOS

Nope, tried

 

[clarkey01]

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[clarkey01]

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[Fardringle]

Depending on the wireless adapter that is in your laptop, there will usually be a check box (or an on/off option) either in the wireless adapter's connection management utility or else in the properties of the wireless adapter in the Device Manager. Some adapters will even have the option in both places...

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Depending on the wireless adapter that is in your laptop, there will usually be a check box (or an on/off option) either in the wireless adapter's connection management utility or else in the properties of the wireless adapter in the Device Manager. Some adapters will even have the option in both places...

Everything is enabled

 

[clarkey01]

?

 

[mnviking]

Have you tried right clicking on My Network Places, hitting properties, and then right clicking on your wireless adapter in that list. On my HP i can enable/disable my wireless and View Available Wireless Networks from there.