laptop cant find wireless network

dan2002

hi all picked up one of the cheap laptops tesco had on offer ,Gateway 15.4" screen running vista,but there seems to be a problem when you turn the laptop off and then turn it on next day it cant find "any" wireless networks ,but if I reinstall the wireless drivers it then picks up all networks around us ,dont want to bring it back as £99 seems to be a steal and can always pick up a usb wireless stick ,so anyone else got a gateway laptop and had same problem

posted_2

£99 for a laptop, got a link?

dan2002

I picked it up sat morning in a tesco store in Belfast ,just asked about the cheap laptops and was offered this one sorry but told last one

posted_2

Are you shutting it down completely or using suspend/hibernate?

dan2002

shutting it down ,but when I turn it back on cant find any networks

posted_2

Does everything appear fine in device manager, it's a bit of a strange one. Is the wireless enabled at boot.

dan2002

yes everything seems fine and when i reinstall the wireless driver and it reboots it finds the networks no problem

Fonz_2

Sure you're shutting it down?

I remember when I first used Vista the 'Main' button in that area of the start menu is actually sleep, where experience of XP suggests it should be 'Shut Down'

dan2002

I have a desktop running vista and I think I know how to shut it down sorry

posted_2

http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_view.html

A couple of utilities that will scan for networks, and give an indication of whether the wireless card is actually live and able to see anything when the vista scanner doesn't, inssider requires .net framework.