So my built in wireless adapter in my laptop keeps uninstalling itself (or something?). I can't tell what's causing the problem and it's still not working after restarting/shutting down a few times (this fixed it before).
I can't tell you the name of my wireless adapter because it's not installed (doesn't even show up in Device Manager). All I know is that it's an Atheros wireless adapter.

Help me please.

That's weird. What OS are you using? If you go under Network Connections, and rightclick on your wireless connection, and choose properties, does it show anything at the top, where it says "Connect using"?

On W7, it is Network and Internet » Network and Sharing Center » "Change Adapter Settings" on the left. Does it redetect if you reboot? If it does, can you check if you have the latest drivers installed?

might be a virus? in which case do a boot scan?

(18/07/2010 07:45 PM)Hellgiver Wrote:  That's weird. What OS are you using? If you go under Network Connections, and rightclick on your wireless connection, and choose properties, does it show anything at the top, where it says "Connect using"?

On W7, it is Network and Internet » Network and Sharing Center » "Change Adapter Settings" on the left. Does it redetect if you reboot? If it does, can you check if you have the latest drivers installed?

Yeah it's Windows 7, and no it doesn't show up at all under Adapter Settings. This happened yesterday and after rebooting a few times it showed up again. Then today when I turned my computer on it just disappeared and after over 9000 reboots it's not showing up.

(18/07/2010 07:46 PM)Grey Ghost Wrote:  might be a virus? in which case do a boot scan?

It can't be a virus, I just reinstalled 7 like a week ago.

(19/07/2010 01:29 AM)S7* Wrote:  Not trying to be funny, but is there are hard/LED switch which would "disable" the adapter?

Was the laptop dropped recently?

There is a button for that but it doesn't turn it back on.

No I didn't drop it.

The only thing I can think of is that my fried opened up the bottom and cleaned out the fan, but he didn't touch anything close to the wireless adapter.