Dot s wifi cant turn on wifi

[oddbubble]

Today I wiped and and did a clean windows 7 install on a packard bell dot s, and then i had to get the wifi and display drivers from the packard bell website they installed fine.

But then the wifi cut out and I cant seam to turn it back on, according to the manual FN + F2 should toggle wifi on and off but this does not seam to be working.
all i get when I chick on the signal bar in the right hand corner is no available networks.

And when I run windows diagnostics it tells me to turn on the wlan network adapter(or something like that)

so i was wondering as the keyboard short cut dont work, is there a way i can turn it on using a command line or anything really

many thanks
oddbubble

 

[svendudink]

hey oddbubble,

i have the same problem with my PB Dot S, it actually looks like its turned on but i cant get any networks, i will try some other tricks to get my network working,
what kind of driver do you use? i noticed there might also be slight differences in the models, my DOT-s uses the intel wifi link 1000 what is your laptop using?

greetings sven

 

[hang-the-9]

In the WiFi utility that should be provided with the driver, there should be a "tun onr and off" option for the wireless. I have run into issues with this before. Also if it's a laptop, check if there is a physical switch for the wifi hardware.

 

[oddbubble]

In the end I just restored it from a system image that I had forgotten I backed up, then upgraded it to ultimate, after a bit of digging around I found out it was quite a common problem with the dot s it only seams to like the OS(+ what PB call enhancements) it came with.

 

[Ward5x5]

In the end I just restored it from a system image that I had forgotten I backed up, then upgraded it to ultimate, after a bit of digging around I found out it was quite a common problem with the dot s it only seams to like the OS(+ what PB call enhancements) it came with.

I have the same issue with my Dot S, but I don't have any recovery discs with it. Is there no way to get the wireless adapter working properly?

 

[flumrik]

I'm having the exact same problems.
I've installed Win7 and after that, I cant tturn on wifi with FN + F3
And I've also downloaded the drivers for wireless access on PB website

 

[bleibbrand]

I solved the problem with my Dot S by entering the device maintenance and activating the "Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter. It launched and the Microsoft Virtual WiFiMiniport-adapter was added to th list. he LED went on. Fn + F3 only showed the on and off logo's for WiFi but didn't really do something on a hardware level.

 

[computerfreak_09]

I solved the problem with my Dot S by entering the device maintenance and activating the "Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter. It launched and the Microsoft Virtual WiFiMiniport-adapter was added to th list. he LED went on. Fn + F3 only showed the on and off logo's for WiFi but didn't really do something on a hardware level.

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How did u do that???
help me please