I found this laptop in my step dad's junk bin, he was just unable to charge it but otherwise everything worked perfectly after getting a charger for it. I was going through and doing some minor upgrades, one of which was swapping out the unbranded WLAN card in the machine with a newer Intel Wireless N 7260 so that I could have hopefully faster internet speeds as well as Bluetooth support (since I plan to use this laptop for travel). However, after installing the drivers, no option to turn on WiFi or Bluetooth was available and in device manager it showed "The device could not start (Code 10)". This laptop came out the same year as another laptop I was originally using this WLAN card in, and it worked fine in there with some BIOS tweaks. Do I need to do the same with this laptop? Or is there another fix I can try? I want to point out this laptop has a physical "Wireless" switch on the front of the laptop, I guess like a built in airplane mode of sorts? The laptop's LAN connector works fine as well.
Edit: After a reboot, Bluetooth is now working. WiFi is still not available, though.
Edit: After a reboot, Bluetooth is now working. WiFi is still not available, though.
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