Dell inspirion 5000

[Stacyd11]

Wifi is no longer available. Battery died and when I plugged it in wifi was gone.

 

[audie-tron25]

What OS are you running? If it is Windows 10, I've had a similar issue with my Dell Inspiron 14. For me, my OS had updated to the anniversary update as well as updating my wireless drivers which caused them to no longer work. I rolled my PC back to a previous date (in this case it was a matter of hours, your situation may be different) and it has worked ever since. If you do this, make sure you back up anything that you have done since the date/time of the previous backup.