The following problem, I was just on the Discord chatting with a few people and then suddenly my internet connection popped off. I restarted and could no longer connect to the WLAN, when I went to network settings there was only what can be seen in the picture below. I can no longer connect to the WLAN on the laptop, but it works with a LAN cable. What could it be?
Router could have hung up, your driver could have hung up, or if you did something clever that led to it. But mostly it's the first two things.
restart the router, see what happens, then install the WLAN driver again and see what happens.
Start the laptop again
Right, I had forgotten.
I've restarted my laptop quite often and also the router. I don't think it's the router either, otherwise I would see other networks that I could connect to. What is the WLAN driver? Haven't I heard of how do I reinstall that?
Drivers are usually available on the manufacturer side of your laptop and you should see them in the device manager. Can of course be that the card is defective. But it happens very rarely.
Sometimes it is the same for me, just restart again and again, with mr it worked the first time
And is it now?
I once looked in the device manager and there's no path with the name "Wireless" or "WLAN" to be found.
Didn't work the third time either
Most laptops have a small slide switch on the front edge (side) that switches off the WLAN on the hardware side.
You may have to push it back again.
Suggestion: finding and exaggerating position.
Should be under either network devices. Or something with a yellow triangle "unknown device"… If not, there really seems to be a hardware defect. If in doubt, look for "new hardware" in the device manager. Or something corrupted your system. I don't know what to do in discord. Should people give themselves something to download or something. But let's rule that out. Can you only try to repair your windows and hope that it is not due to the hardware. Setup USB stick or take iso and install over it. Keep data etc, then it should at least reset the system. Of course, a backup would make sense.
Look whether you either have all Windows updates or if you want to look at the driver, look in the "Device Manager"
I could still imagine that you switched off your WLAN card with a key combination. FN and F keys. Or there are also switches on some laptops.
In the device manager under the item network adapter I only find the files "Realtek Pcle GbE Family Controller, TAP-Proton Windows Adapter, WAN Miniport 8x with strange names. There's nothing more to be found there and my WLAN chip is not listed as" deactivated "in the release center. Or something like that, but not at all, where I only see my LAN connection and an Ethernet connection.
I haven't downloaded anything, no update, no program. My internet connection was still okay, but then it popped off and after I restarted my laptop, I was no longer able to connect to the Wi-Fi.
As I said, the last possibility would be that you turned it off with the F keys, there's actually a key or combination or switch on the side on every laptop, I've already seen a lot where people have made a joke. Otherwise just look whether any update of windows etc has broken the WLAN or just really defective hardware. Then that's the way it is. There are probably no more solutions than you can create facts.
You can also take screenshots in Windows with Windows logo key + Shift + S, then your pictures will be much better.
Right-click the network icon, then click Troubleshoot. Follow the instructions.
That's it?
