How do I enable wireless? BIOS check says hardware is fine.

[xael821]

I have a 1 yr old dell vostro 3400 and for most of that year the wireless worked perfectly. Recently I have no wireless: I cannot set up or connect to anything, and nothing is visible. When I go to control panel\network and internet\manage wireless networks, is says "Wireless is not currently enabled." I know about the little toggle on the laptop's exterior, and that is in the correct setting. I ran a hardware check from the BIOS and all relevant hardware is properly working. When I go to registry editor though, some of the files in System\CurrentControlSet\services\Wlansvs\Parameters have no values set to them (I didn't set them like that).

Do you have any ideas on how I can reenable wireless or is there a list of default working values for those files?

Thanks!

 

[Layback Bear]

This may help and won't hurt.
From the cmd prompt/admin run sfc /scannow and see if it give a clean bill of health. In the past have you run any registry cleaners or tune up programs? Have you had to remove and virus or the such?

 

[rraod]

Right click on My Computer - Manage - Device Manager.

Check whether the Wireless adapter is enabled or not. Do you see a red or yellow sign against it's icon?

If the wireless adapter is disabled, enable it by right clicking on it's icon and select Enable.

 

[xael821]

@Layback bear, I gave that a shot but it said I'm not an admin running a console...I'm definitely an admin though.

@rraod
I did that, and it says my adapters are fine but that I have no drivers installed for the network controller. That sounds important...is it? I can connect fine to ethernet and get internet through that though.

 

[kegobeer]

You have to right click the cmd app and select run as administrator. Did you do that?

 

[xael821]

I found my driver disk that came when I bought it and reinstalled the network controller driver and it all works... thank you all for your help!