Network Adapter Driver

[trewyn15]

Hey all,

I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 that I inherited. I plan on using it as a shop laptop out in the garage for quick access to forums and diagrams and such.

I have reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit on it and it is running good for the most part. I am currently having an issue with the hotkeys and network adapter driver, it looks like it's not registering the adapter at all. This leads me to assume that I just have the wrong driver installed, or the adapter is unplugged or something similar to that.

I have attached what logo I am getting for wifi right now. I will pull the keyboard off and see if I unplugged something when previously pulling the hard drive.

Other than that, any suggestions?

 

[Darren]

Install the first driver under the wireless tab from here.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-mini1018/drivers

 

[trewyn15]

Thanks for the link, I tried to install it twice and I'm getting 'Not connected' when I look in the network connections and 'No connections are available' when I look in the taskbar. I'm not sure if the adapter has just failed or what is going on.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Make sure the wireless switch is set to on. If there's no physical switch then you have a fn key such as fn+F2 (or whatever has the wireless radio logo on it)

 

[johnb35]

To make sure all drivers are installed, check device manager. If that looks fine then we can only assume wireless switch is off.

 

[trewyn15]

Wow....

So I had been tryin fn + f2 and it wasn't taking it... this whole time I guess it just wanted f2 alone and no 'fn'.

Thanks all for the input! Hopefully I can get this running right out in the shop

 

[beers]

Nice, I dislike the trend where F buttons now need the Fn button to actually register as F2. My Lenovo T440 from work does this, I'd want to hit F5 for a page refresh but it just dims the screen

Glad you got it sorted.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Wow....

So I had been tryin fn + f2 and it wasn't taking it... this whole time I guess it just wanted f2 alone and no 'fn'.

Thanks all for the input! Hopefully I can get this running right out in the shop

Nice, I dislike the trend where F buttons now need the Fn button to actually register as F2. My Lenovo T440 from work does this, I'd want to hit F5 for a page refresh but it just dims the screen

Glad you got it sorted.

Yeah I hate when they automatically do the macro assigned to the key instead of the F key itself. Glad my suggestion worked :good:

 

[bdonovan]

this happens to me each time i try to re-install my pc...there are always at least 2 drivers, which make problems...actually it turned out that the problem may occur if you have installed down-to-date drivers too...thus i decided to install software that will do all the work for me..now i use Drivermax, but there are many others...