Cannot enable the wireless network adapter

Hi all

I have an old Dell Inspiron 1564 of 5 months with a Wireless 1397 WLAN Dell card. I had a few difficulties to connect to my wireless router, and as a last attempt to make it work, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for my wireless card, using a new download of the latest version from the Dell support site.

The driver seems to install fine and when I look at the card wireless in the Device Manager, it is enabled, but in "control configuration\reseau and Internet\Network connections" (which are accessible through the Network and Sharing Center), it is grey and says people with reduced mobility.

When I click on activate in there, a small window opens saying "Activation", then after a few seconds, he says "Enabled" then disappears. However, the adapter remains disabled in Center of N/W & sharing and is not detected by Windows.

I tried to reinstall the driver to install Dell drivers, as well as automatic windows driver search and no work. I also tried to do a system restore, but this does not (cannot finish on any of the restore points).

I also spent 1.5 hours on the phone with Dell support and their final advice was to format and reinstall Windows.

The same question is reported here and here, with no resolution apparent. Can anyone offer any advice I've already tried? Thank you!

More details:
-I am running Win 7 Pro.
-Wired networking and internet connection works fine
-J' have Zone Alarm and Avast Anti virus and I tried to disable both without success

The same problem has been posted by other here, here, hereand here. It seems to happen with different brands of cards from NW.

Hello

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I got my wireless works today. The steps are, keeping in mind the stuff that I had already tried as stated in my original post:

-Uninstalled Zone Alarm and Avast Antivirus.
-Restarted mode without failure.
-Uninstalled the Driver 1397 WLAN Device Manager.
-Manager of uninstalled Dell Wireless cards Control Panel > programs.
-Restarted in Mode safe again.
-Reinstalled last bouquet of 1397 driver Dell (R237742.exe)
-Rebooted in safe mode again to verify that the adapter was showing less active in Safe Mode, which it was.
-Restarted normally to find the list is activated.

Now I'm right back to where I was before, not being able to connect to my router, but I do not suspect my computer or my card wireless for the moment because I have four wireless devices in the House (this new Dell laptop, another 4 years Dell laptop, an 8 - month, Sony VAIO and a 6 - month old iPhone 3 g). All of these devices, the one that connects to my router is the Sony, so I think I have as well the router problems. I'll probably start another thread on the subject, just to keep this central thread.

So to summarize, for anyone having the issue where your wireless card is showing disabled in Network Center and share and right click Activate this doesn't even after reinstalling the drivers the most recent, I would recommend to explore two options:
-Disabling or uninstalling Antivirus software or firewall
-Uninstall and reinstall the drivers Safe Mode Wireless
If you are interested in reducing the problem a little, I recommend you to try these separately, probably the SafeMode option first.

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