Hi all,
I've recently bought a new laptop. It's a Sony Vaio VGN-FW41E. It was installed with Windows Vista and although I didn't test the wireless before formatting it, the little "Wireless" light on the front next to the wireless switch worked fine (turning on when the switch was on, and off when it was off).
After upgrading to Windows 7 I can't seem to get the Wifi to work - Pushing the switch one way or the other makes no difference, the light doesn't come on. The drivers seem to be installed fine, I've also run windows update and downloaded the latest drivers direct from Sony (from their Windows 7 version page) and installed them - windows says that the drivers are installed correctly.
I've also disabled the firewall and everything else that might be causing problems. I've checked the WLAN Autoconfigure service, and it's on. Windows can't seem to find a wireless network (Wired works fine - I can cable into the same (wireless) router and it works so I know that the router itself isn't the problem. When I run the troubleshooter, Windows suggests to "Turn on the wireless switch on the PC" - I have done so, but the light doesn't show and it doesn't work.
Any ideas how I might fix this?
Oh, also, just to say that I manually configured the connection via Control Panel\Network and Internet\Manage Wireless Networks - entering the SSID, security settings, etc. Still no dice.
In case it's relevent (probably not as this seems to be a laptop, rather than AP, problem), the router broadcasts it's SSID, I *do* use MAC filtering but I've added both the wired and wireless MAC to the router's table (and I've triple-checked that they are correct; also it allows the connection via wired) and I use WPA-2 encryption using AES.
I've recently bought a new laptop. It's a Sony Vaio VGN-FW41E. It was installed with Windows Vista and although I didn't test the wireless before formatting it, the little "Wireless" light on the front next to the wireless switch worked fine (turning on when the switch was on, and off when it was off).
After upgrading to Windows 7 I can't seem to get the Wifi to work - Pushing the switch one way or the other makes no difference, the light doesn't come on. The drivers seem to be installed fine, I've also run windows update and downloaded the latest drivers direct from Sony (from their Windows 7 version page) and installed them - windows says that the drivers are installed correctly.
I've also disabled the firewall and everything else that might be causing problems. I've checked the WLAN Autoconfigure service, and it's on. Windows can't seem to find a wireless network (Wired works fine - I can cable into the same (wireless) router and it works so I know that the router itself isn't the problem. When I run the troubleshooter, Windows suggests to "Turn on the wireless switch on the PC" - I have done so, but the light doesn't show and it doesn't work.
Any ideas how I might fix this?
Oh, also, just to say that I manually configured the connection via Control Panel\Network and Internet\Manage Wireless Networks - entering the SSID, security settings, etc. Still no dice.
In case it's relevent (probably not as this seems to be a laptop, rather than AP, problem), the router broadcasts it's SSID, I *do* use MAC filtering but I've added both the wired and wireless MAC to the router's table (and I've triple-checked that they are correct; also it allows the connection via wired) and I use WPA-2 encryption using AES.