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Laptop wont see wifi network, but everything else does
So i just set up the system. and after set up, i turned off the wifi on my bell homehub 3000, and changed the wifi name and pass to the same as the Bell wifi was, so all my devices could connect aga...
this is the laptop - https://www.acer.com/ac/en/CA/content/model/NX.HJFAA.007
got the latest driver for wifi from here - https://www.acer.com/ac/en/CA/content/support-product/7226?b=1
restarted. nothing.
ive been at this for hours. to no avail.
all the stuff that was likely to be a pain was easy on this setup, and the easiest one, isnt working at all. so frustrating.
im ordering a cheap usb wifi adaptor from amazon. just to double check. although windows says theres nothing wrong with my adaptor. and it does see all the neighbors wifi tbh. i havent turned the bell wifi back on, but that test is next. probably tomorrow.
but if it workd with the bell wifi back on, then its definitly something to do with the Nighthawk mesh. will report back tomorrow
But what wireless chip is it? Don't get the driver from acer, get it from who made the wireless card
only info i can find is that its intel?
- Look it up in the device manager. Then get the driver from intel
that was EXACTLY the right info! thanks plemans!
steps:
device manager isnt easy to find to be honest, if you right click the windows logo, you get a search option, in which you can type device manager, or you can right click on "this pc" in windows explorer and select properties. from there you have device manager as a selectable on the top left.
once device manager pops, go down to network adaptors and open tree, make note of wireless adaptor, then googled, and quickly found the Download page, which for me was intel dual band wireless-AC 7265thanks again plemans!