Windows 10 - WiFi Not Visable

Gumbo

I can't connect to my wifi router.
In fact the laptop doesn't pick up any wifi signals. Working perfect yesterday and everything else in the house still connected to my UPC router.

Dell Inspiron 1545 originally in Windows 7 and upgraded to 10 recently.

Anyone any idea in lay mans terms what to do?

Thanks.

TheChizler

Simple things first. There's not a switch on the case for wifi is there? Failing that what does it say for Windows wireless connection when you look at your network adapters (not sure how to do this on Windows 10, on 7 you can right click on the wifi bars, click network and sharing centre, and click change adapter settings).

Gumbo

TheChizler wrote: »

Simple things first. There's not a switch on the case for wifi is there? Failing that what does it say for Windows wireless connection when you look at your network adapters (not sure how to do this on Windows 10, on 7 you can right click on the wifi bars, click network and sharing centre, and click change adapter settings).

No switch

When I hover over the wifi bars it says "not connected. No connections are available".

In my network connections, under the wifi tab it says not connected.

When I go into my network and Internet tab, my wifi is turned off but I cannot turn it on. It flicks to on and straight back to off. A reboot did not fix the issue.

Gumbo

Think I fixed it. Internet is back!

Chizler you prompted me to check the function keys to turn wireless on and off and that turned it back on!

Thanks.

TheChizler

You could try reinstalling the WIFI/WLAN drivers from here (under network) and see does that fix it.

Edit: Good to hear! Hopefully it stays fixed!

bmm

fn + f2 toggles the wifi on/off !

Gumbo

bmm wrote: »

fn + f2 toggles the wifi on/off !

That's what I couldn't get my head around also, but I don't need to press function on the laptop, it's a dedicated key which I've only coped on was there now!

Thanks