I did open the laptop last week and I reset the wireless card. It's not the plugin/plugout kind you can reach from the outside. It's there but the system does not see it.
I'm really starting not to like HP and Vista.
I pulled the internal wireless card that's screwed in below the keyboard and could not find a model or manufacturer number ,so I can't tell which name brand it is.
HP will not help me ID the card.
In the device manager list there is not a device name like "Wireless Card."
Do you know how a wireless card is identified in the manager?
If the wireless device driver is installed properly, it will be listed under network adapters. If the driver isn't installed then it will be listed as either network controller or unknown device.