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For a few years, I have had my desktop directly connected to the router via an ethernet cable. Just yesterday, I moved it to another room and tried to connect to the internet wirelessly. I own a HP Pavilion p6120f desktop which comes with a wireless adapter already. However when I try to "Connect to a network" it simply says "Windows cannot find any additional networks. In Network and Internet > Network Connections, it shows that the Wireless Network Connection is Not connected.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
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On the link. click on 802.11 wireless: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01746794#N454

Your computer comes with what is bassically a laptop version of a wifi card. Those two circles above the grey square (heat shield/cover over chip) is where the antennas go.

Open up your case and see if there as any antenna leads connected to it (or if one/both became disconnected.

If there is no supplied antennas then that is your problem.
You can just add antennas by getting the uhl to rp-sma cables, drilling out two holes in the back of a pci-slot cover on your case, and then installing rp-sma antennas. End result is marginally cheaper then a decent wifi card with much more work and hacking up a slot cover. If you...
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I cannot find an hp wifi utility. I checked in both hewlett packard folders inside program files and program files (x86).
I checked device manager and double clicking on the network adapter tells me "The device cannot start" (Code 10).
 
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I just read this forum: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/348824-28-does-computer-antenna-wireless. I was wondering if the problem could be simply because network card does not have any antennas? If this is the problem, should I buy a new card that does have antennas, or can I just install antennas onto my network card that I have already? On the Product Specifications website, it says my wireless card has 2 supported antenna connections.

Thanks.
 
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On the link. click on 802.11 wireless: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01746794#N454

Your computer comes with what is bassically a laptop version of a wifi card. Those two circles above the grey square (heat shield/cover over chip) is where the antennas go.

Open up your case and see if there as any antenna leads connected to it (or if one/both became disconnected.

If there is no supplied antennas then that is your problem.
You can just add antennas by getting the uhl to rp-sma cables, drilling out two holes in the back of a pci-slot cover on your case, and then installing rp-sma antennas. End result is marginally cheaper then a decent wifi card with much more work and hacking up a slot cover. If you just use the computer to browse the web then wifi will work but if doing anything where response time/latency is important or doing steady file transfer speeds then you might look at getting a 500-600mbps powerline adapter instead of a new wifi card.
 
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I checked out the back of my network card slot cover and it already has 2 holes drilled, along with 2 rp-sma female connectors. I'm not sure what you meant by "uhl to rp-sma cables", but if I purchase 2 rp-sma antennas should that fix the problem?
 
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Ok thank you, I will buy 2 antennas and report back if it works!
 
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