OK I've got a problem. Yesterday i talked to a GEEK squad agent at best buy about a problem with my asus laptop. It keeps randomly losing connection for 5 seconds and connecting again, which is just enough time to disconnect me from online games like WoW. He said I should probably update the drivers. I went to the device manager and right clicked Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN and clicked update drivers. It updated them in a few minutes. Then, however my laptop wouldn't connect at all to the internet. When i ran windows diagnostics, it said that my WIRELESS cabability wasn't turned on. It was. I thought maybe those drivers needed to be updated too, but i can't find the device. Instead i downgraded the WiFi drivers back to what they were, but i still can't connect. It must be something that i did, but does anyone know how to turn the wireless capability on from inside the computer to make sure it isn't the switch. If anyone has a solutions that are a bit complicated, I'd prefer step by step directions. I have windows 7.
if you have another computer in the house try to uninstall the WiFi driver from the Device Manager an don't forget to click DELETE driver... the you go to the other computer then look for what model your laptop is then you look for the WiFi driver for that specific laptop the put in on a USB CARD and install it on your laptop..

Hope i helpedQuote from: john67832 on June 29, 2010, 08:11:51 AM

Yesterday i talked to a geek squad agent at best buy about a problem with my asus laptop.