No WiFi HP Pavilion dv6000

[Bob Villa]

It has the BroadCom PCI-e card and doesn't show in the Device Mgr. as
being there. Nothing in the BIOS to turn it on and front switch does
nothing.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
bob

 

[BillW50]

In
news:fc0cf526-3c64-4ff4-9244-f32a112d0f58@a34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com,
Bob Villa typed on Tue, 11 May 2010 0779 -0700 (PDT):
> It has the BroadCom PCI-e card and doesn't show in the Device Mgr. as
> being there. Nothing in the BIOS to turn it on and front switch does
> nothing.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
> bob

What OS are you running there Bob? If you are running Windows, I suppose
you tried to use detect new hardware, eh? Sometimes Windows can get
broken. So you have at least two options to try.

1) Reinstall Windows

2) Run Linux Ubuntu Live version from a CD and see if the wireless is
detected.

If neither one of these works, it sure sounds like a bad wireless card
to me. They do go bad sometimes.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3

 

[Bob Villa]

On May 11, 9:50 am, "BillW50" <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:
> Innews:fc0cf526-3c64-4ff4-9244-f32a112d0f58@a34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com,
> Bob Villa typed on Tue, 11 May 2010 0779 -0700 (PDT):
>
> > It has the BroadCom PCI-e card and doesn't show in the Device Mgr. as
> > being there.  Nothing in the BIOS to turn it on and front switch does
> > nothing.
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.
> > bob
>
> What OS are you running there Bob? If you are running Windows, I suppose
> you tried to use detect new hardware, eh? Sometimes Windows can get
> broken. So you have at least two options to try.
>
> 1) Reinstall Windows
>
> 2) Run Linux Ubuntu Live version from a CD and see if the wireless is
> detected.
>
> If neither one of these works, it sure sounds like a bad wireless card
> to me. They do go bad sometimes.
>
> --
> Bill
> Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows XP SP3

Sorry, Vista and I don't have the recovery DVD...but I think there is
a recovery partition.
Thanks,
bob