I reinstalled Vista and found that my Dell laptop was not picking up wireless signals. A diagnostic test in Vista told me "the computer does not have a wireless network adapter installed and configured".
I then tried to go to device manager and uninstalled the drivers for the devices as I had been told they would automatically reinstall when I rebooted. However, this did not happen. Now under "Other devices" in device manager I have some devices which I think were formerly under the Network adapters tab. Three are listed as "Base Device Manager", one is listed as "Network Controller" and one as "Video controller".
For the Network controller I cannot get any information on the device make or model. I am wondering how to resolve this issue, and get these devices to be installed and configured properly. This seems to be something to do with Vista, but I cannot find a way around it.The laptop is a Dell model number PP22X.
I am thinking I will need to install Vista again, but I hope there is a simpler version around this.
Anyone know how I can resolve this apart from any hilarious suggestions for buying a mac?
I then tried to go to device manager and uninstalled the drivers for the devices as I had been told they would automatically reinstall when I rebooted. However, this did not happen. Now under "Other devices" in device manager I have some devices which I think were formerly under the Network adapters tab. Three are listed as "Base Device Manager", one is listed as "Network Controller" and one as "Video controller".
For the Network controller I cannot get any information on the device make or model. I am wondering how to resolve this issue, and get these devices to be installed and configured properly. This seems to be something to do with Vista, but I cannot find a way around it.The laptop is a Dell model number PP22X.
I am thinking I will need to install Vista again, but I hope there is a simpler version around this.
Anyone know how I can resolve this apart from any hilarious suggestions for buying a mac?