Wireless card not picking up signals

[mknabster]

I have an HP Compaq 2510p laptop which I rebuilt with Windows XP at work, and for some reason, any internal wireless card i install doesn't pick up a signal. The driver is installed properly, and device manager shows it as being functioning, but when i go into view available connections, it says none found. I have tried 2 separate cards, with the same issue. Now i did try an external USB wireless card, and that works fine, but nothing internal will. Does anyone have any ideas about this? Thanks

 

[Emerald]

are the two internal network cards you tried the original cards that came with the laptop?

 

[mknabster]

The 2nd one came out of another 2510p, and the original is from the machine itself, but yes, these are all what the computer ships with new.

 

[Emerald]

it might be a dumb question but did you enable the wireless via switch and/or FN+Function key?

 

[mknabster]

Yes, there's a touch panel at the top of the computer which enables the wireless on and off, and it is set to on since it glows blue.