Wireless network card cannot be turned on

I have a Gateway t-6330u that I recently had to reformat the hard drive and when Vista was reinstalled the driver for the wireless network adapter was missing. I downloaded the correct driver for it, but now Windows fails to activate the wireless network card. The hardware switch is turned on, but in the windows Mobility Center, it won't let me turn on the wireless network card. I tried to repair it with the windows network diagnostics, but it is also unable to turn on wireless networks. Then he told me he tried a repair but the problem persists. After trying a few times he gives up and tells me to contact my network administrator. Anyone have any ideas?

Hi adht450,

This problem can occur because of an older version of the driver that you need to update.

Click Start> type in Device Manager in the start search > expand NICs in Device Manager > right click of network card > click Properties> click on Driver tab > click on update drivers> click OK.

You can view the following link to update the drivers:

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/update-a-driver-for-hardware-that-isn ' t-work correctly

You may need to look into the security WPA and WPA2 keys, you will probably need to change this.

For more information, you can consult the following link:
 
http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7network/thread/43f61a9c-069b-49AB-9F5B-f52ec2b1ef7e

Hope this information is useful.

Jeremy K

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