If you have vista click the start button and in the start search type "hp wireless assistant". It should show up in your list while you type it. Click on it. Once the assistant box shows up, click on "properties". A "settings" box should show up. The main one you need here is "independant controls for installed wireless device". Check that box. The other ones are icons and indicators that you can check at your discretion. If in doubt, check them all. Hit the "apply" button. Then in the upper right hand side of the box hit the button that says "turn on". This should activate the device and if you have a light up indicator on your computer, it should change color or light up. That should do it. Kind of weird how it gets to that point.
I have a Presario MR2305NR with a similar problem, I went so far as to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows & drivers. WLAN still disabled! The solution turned out to be so easy:
Hi,
First u check the whether u wlan switched ON or OFF.If ur laptop have Windows vista operating system then u click on start button,Programs,Recovery Manager.In recovery manager,u click on recovery Hardware driver reinstalltion page.There u select YES and click on Next button .Its shows the drivers lists.There u select the Wlan drivers and click on Next button.After installation completed,u restart ur laptop and check it.
If u r living in INDIA.Then u go for this website address
www.hp.com/in/support
Toll free No.1800 112 267
Usually in device manager you just right click wlan and enable,you can also go into control panel,network connections and enable it there or right click on the icon in sys tray and enable are you sure its disabled and not too weak signal to connect
Try to deinstall wlan in device manager and restart computer /download latest wlan drivers from the intel site and install them / or try to examine control panel with wlan button, it can stuck, in that case wlan always be disabled
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Hobbes2120 many, many thanks. The best solution.
Thank you so much - I thought I would never find help
Dv6146eu is a trouble mashine, has tempt problems when working in ordinary houses with lots of cats and dogs, temp raises and above, are bottons to turn on mashine and sound, which will problely stop these systems, having worked with the mashine for so long I think I can narrow it down too that. the bios if you try too change it will also stop the wireless.
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I have the Compaq Presario c700 and when i press the wireless buttons it just says disabled???? Then it wont recognize anything??
I have the same problem. I have the Presario v6000,and whenever my laptop goes to sleep,it comes back and suddenly the wireless switch is disabled. when i go back to the device manager to turn it on,nothing works to turn it back. help please?
I have HP Pavilion dv3-1075us Notebook PC. Brand New
Runs Vista home premium.
Same issues with WLAN off/Disabled, only There is no HP
Wireless Assistant System Icon in System Tray.
Reinstalling WLAN Drivers didnt work.
Trying the "Toggle" method above didnt work either.
Tried Re-installing HP Wireless Assistant From Recovery Manager.. no dice.
-tried disabling both the Broadcom4322AG 802.11 a-g/draft n Wi-Fi adapter and The REaltek RTL8168(p)/8111C(P) FAmily PCi-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC and re-enabling .
Wireless icon on keyboard only is able to turn WLAN Disabled or OFF.. no ON...
i have other machines able to connect to internet wirelessly to router.. np.
Need a little help...
hp dv5 1000us
my wlan option remain disabled, and there is noway to on it. kindly help
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