why does my wireless card not work in my notebook?
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My Dell Inspron notebook requires me to load the drivers for my network card from the CD that came with my network card. Windws would not find the drivers automatically, and you have to load the CD BEFORE you insert the network card, or you will have to uninstall the drivers and reinstall them.
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Do the simple things first.  Shutdown the computer. Un-seat and re-seat the card.  Go the router ( I am assuming)  and unplug it.  Wait for a few seconds and then plug it in.  (These things are embedded computers and sometimes hang) Then restart the machine.  See if it works.  If not, you are going to need some hardware to figure out which piece broke.  Have someone bring thier laptop over and attempt to connect.  Borrow a card from someone and try it.
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If it's a FREE wireless internet zone, then yes it will work. But not a network card, a wireless card. A network card is for connecting to a router with wires or connecting to another computer directly.
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go into your hardware manager and look for the wireless lan card option. right click then properties at the bottom of that window should be a disable or enable option if that doesn't work then you need a new lan card\n(also if you have the radio mast symbol on your laptop on the keyboard press and hold FN and then press the mast button that should re-activate it.
912183
Your question is too vague! Do you even know if your notebook has a wireless connection? You dont just download a driver to get wireless! The hardware must be installed on the mobo or in a card slot!
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Check to be sure you have the correct drivers, that's the most likely cause. Just go to the manufacturer's website and they should have them. If that doesn't work, check to make sure that the network card is seated all the way in it's slot (if it is a card, and not on-board) and if *that* doesn't work it may be fried, and you'll need a new network card.
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you need to install the linux driver for the network card. If there is a native linux driver, then use that, otherwise, most people use a wrapper for their windows driver called ndiswrapper.\n\ngood luck
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linksys wireless router and if your laptop is not equipped a linksys wireless card http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1428
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Greetings!\n\nFirst, if your laptop does not have an internal wireless card you must purchase one that goes into your pcmcia slot on the side of the laptop.\nThen when you start the laptop you will see a balloon in the task bar that tells you it has found a wireless network.\nClick on it and it will show you the network or networks. Choose the one with the most strength and then click the profile, and or connect button.\nThen bring up your browser like internet explorer and you will be on.\n\nGood Luck
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Go to Start>right click on My Computer>Properties> Hardware Tap>Device Manager>locate your wireless device, you should seet it within the network adapters, If you see it> right click  on it > Enable. If you didn't see it , then your hardware isn't in your system , you should reinstall the driver from the CD drivers.
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in most cases it's already integrated, but not in all. anyway, you have to read the specifications.\nmanufacturers like Dell offer a configuration by yourself where you can add a wireless card for pretty cheap, whereby other manufacturers only have a wide variety of laptop models with or without an integrated card. in this case it's up to you to choose the right model.
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Interesting situation.  Did you disconnect the LAN cable and reboot your computer, before connecting to the wireless network?  I would try disabling your ethernet card (Start | Settings | Control Panel | Network Connection | right click on your ethernet connection | Disable.  Reboot your computer. Then try the wireless connection again + VPN.\nStill does not work, possible that the VPN software is not binding to your wireless card.  Try uninstalling the VPN software + then reinstall the VPN software (while the Ethernet card is disabled).\n\nHope you enjoy my answer..  \n-KOZ\nComputer Repair\nAffirmative Computer Services\nhttp://www.affirmtech.net
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I have no idea.  you could ask the people at Cnet.com for some help.  Call the Geek Squad at bestbuy.com.  or just ask the company that made the wireless internet card
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Go to www.cnet.com and type in the model number of your wireless card.  Many times you will be able to get the drivers there.  \n\nYou can also try going to the Netopia website and looking for their downloads section or support.\n\nGood luck!
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Is the wireless adapter disabled?  Check the settings by selecting Start | Settings | Control Panel | Network connections | Right click on the wireless connection -- IF disabled, enable.   If enabled, try disable and then enable.\nStill doesn't work, you might try downloading the driver from the web and then uninstall the driver (reboot) and then reinstall.   Typically the reinstall routine will solve 99% of these types of wireless issues, especially when you are missing the TCPIP protocol.\nEnjoy\n-KOZ\nComputer phoenix\nhttp://www.affirmtech.net
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Yes you can use a Wireless Network card that is PCI, or you can use a usb "key" wireless device. \nI had currently all my desktops with wireless G cards one is Netgear, the other Linksys.  They work wonderfully. \n\nI set my mothers house up with Wireless networks and Dlink usb devices.  They work just as well. \n\nOnly problems i have seen is 1 old cordless phone I have uses the same frequency range and will knock down my network. \n\nSometimes on the gaming devices you need to staticly route them in your network and open a certain cupple of ports on the router for your gaming addapter.
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Orinoco wireless cards, maybe listed under Lucent.\nA friend of mine just lifted one from me that i have been using for a few years, and he indicates it is working great for him (i knew he was jones-ing for it, so i let him take it) i am only using windows so the brand isn't so important, but for Linux as you've found, does make a difference...