Big Wifi Problem

[daviden]

Laptop won't connect to wifi no matter what I do. After waking up after sleep it turns off and sometimes restarting doesn't even do anything.

 

BTW I hope this is the right forum

[SLAYR]

More of a troubleshooting topic, but try reinstalling the drivers for the wifi card.

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, daviden said:

Laptop won't connect to wifi no matter what I do. After waking up after sleep it turns off and sometimes restarting doesn't even do anything.

 

BTW I hope this is the right forum

So is the wifi the problem or the laptop... do you mean the wifi turns off after waking from sleep.. or the laptop itself?

 

If you mean the wifi, are you sure it's turned off the wifi adaptor? and not just you can't access the network?

[daviden]

7 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

So is the wifi the problem or the laptop... do you mean the wifi turns off after waking from sleep.. or the laptop itself?

 

If you mean the wifi, are you sure it's turned off the wifi adaptor? and not just you can't access the network?

sorry for the vagueness, I meant the wifi will turn off after waking, and in the settinsg it won't allow me to turn it on

[Gonio]

Probably a energy savings setting. You can check energy settings in windows, or maybe your laptop has software on it that also makes certain energy saving rules.

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, daviden said:

sorry for the vagueness, I meant the wifi will turn off after waking, and in the settinsg it won't allow me to turn it on

OK, if you go into the control panel [right click start icon, choose "control panel"] - go into "network and internet" then "network and sharing centre" ... take a picture or a snip using snipping tool of what it says there, like this

 

 

then click "change adaptor settings on the left hand manu items"

 

 and again take a pic/snip.

 

[daviden]

10 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

OK, if you go into the control panel [right click start icon, choose "control panel"] - go into "network and internet" then "network and sharing centre" ... take a picture or a snip using snipping tool of what it says there, like this

 

 

then click "change adaptor settings on the left hand manu items"

 

 and again take a pic/snip.

 

might take a sec considering it cant connect to the internet so ill have to transfer via usb to this computer, hold on...

Edited October 6, 2016 by daviden

[daviden]

The first image doesn't help because im not connected to anything and in the second pic i have ethernet disabled because I thought that could have been the problem

[paddy-stone]

OK, sorry for the very late reply here, but I was very tired and had to sleep.

 

Ok, in the second menu, right click on the wifi adaptor and select "connect"

 

Can you tell me what it says?  I couldn't really see those pics you posted before, but could just make out that there were no networks connected... and that ethernet is disabled and wifi not connected.

 

 

[daviden]

On 10/7/2016 at 7:21 AM, paddy-stone said:

OK, sorry for the very late reply here, but I was very tired and had to sleep.

 

Ok, in the second menu, right click on the wifi adaptor and select "connect"

 

Can you tell me what it says?  I couldn't really see those pics you posted before, but could just make out that there were no networks connected... and that ethernet is disabled and wifi not connected.

 

 

Well after a restart it worked again, but the next time it happens I'll tell you what I see