Wireless Gone?? PLEASE HELP!

Hi everyone, i used to have XP on my computer but today i updated to vista.
PI have a dell inspiron notebook. It had wireless connection built inside it,
and wireless internet worked fine with xp. Now, with vista, there isnt even
that little icon showing my bars of connectivity or the wireless radio tower
in the system tray, only the icons for local area connections. I do not know
what my driver is because when i bought my computer with XP, it just came
working. How can i install my wireless modem and get thoes icons back in the
system tray.

if you didnt understand this post please ask me questions so i can make it
clear.

please help,
-ajp

Open Control panel>System>device manager, you may find the wireless devise.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"ajp" <ajp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:802983B0-C1CA-4B43-A1CF-CEA32904D420@microsoft.com...
Hi everyone, i used to have XP on my computer but today i updated to vista.
PI have a dell inspiron notebook. It had wireless connection built inside it,
and wireless internet worked fine with xp. Now, with vista, there isnt even
that little icon showing my bars of connectivity or the wireless radio tower
in the system tray, only the icons for local area connections. I do not know
what my driver is because when i bought my computer with XP, it just came
working. How can i install my wireless modem and get thoes icons back in the
system tray.

if you didnt understand this post please ask me questions so i can make it
clear.

please help,
-ajp

You didn't say which Inspiron you have so there isn't much anyone can do in
the way of help. Have you checked the Dell Support site? I'm running an
Inspiron 9300 and if memory serves me correctly all the Vista drivers that I
needed were there except for bluetooth. I used the bluetooth driver for the
9400 and it worked (same hardware).
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Things are the way they are because they got that way.



"ajp" <ajp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:802983B0-C1CA-4B43-A1CF-CEA32904D420@microsoft.com...

> Hi everyone, i used to have XP on my computer but today i updated to
> vista.
> PI have a dell inspiron notebook. It had wireless connection built inside
> it,
> and wireless internet worked fine with xp. Now, with vista, there isnt
> even
> that little icon showing my bars of connectivity or the wireless radio
> tower
> in the system tray, only the icons for local area connections. I do not
> know
> what my driver is because when i bought my computer with XP, it just came
> working. How can i install my wireless modem and get thoes icons back in
> the
> system tray.
>
> if you didnt understand this post please ask me questions so i can make it
> clear.
>
> please help,
> -ajp