Windows7 cannot activate wifi adapter

did the wifi adapter come with it's own software to control it?

no just the driver, i also tried some different wifi adapters in the meantime.
2 DLINK and 1 Zyxel. same issue  
so it does not seem to be driver or software related


greetz and thanks,
theHoff

no excalamation marks in device manager?

nope, the driver seems to be installed correctly. when i look at the properties in hardwaremanager it says: driver installed correctly. i even can access the settings mask (network and sharing center -> network adapters -> wifi adapter -> rightclick -> properties) to set up an ip, uncheck boxes (for example internetprotocoll IPv6 etc.), but it won´t let me activate it.

when i click activate, he shows the usual small windows showing "activating" -> "activated", no error message but the adapter still says deactivated. there is no error message in the eventlog regarding the wifi adapter or any other network specific event.

i tried different drivers in the meantime, no success so far..

i´m kind of confused oO

thanks for any help,
theHoff

when you say activate, I assume this is from network and sharing>network connections?

Yes.
In the overview where you see all network adapters and VPN connections etc.
The WiFi adapter is grey and the status is "deactivated". When i right click it and click "activate", the small window saying "activating" -> "activated" pops up. Everything looks normal, except that the adapter stays deactivated.


Thanks,
theHoff

Well, that's my thoughts spent... can you not scan for networks or anything? it just goes through all the actions of enabling it, but not actually doing it?

Thanks for that =)
Maybe someone else has an idea.


nope



Exactly


this is driving me nuts