Laptop won't acknowledge WLAN card!

[SILV3RT3CH]

I have a Dell Inspiron N-5010 that fell off of the couch the other day. Turns out, the hard drive was broken, so I replaced it. I did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. After I was done, I installed all drivers as I usually do. I tried downloading every single WLAN driver for this laptop, NONE of them worked. It will not connect to the internet via wireless connection whatsoever. I know the WLAN card isn't broken because I replaced it with another factory one. Please help!!

 

[chassmith]

could be the mobo is broken ...//// looses connector..? maybe just use a usb dongle to get over the hump?

 

[jsmithepa]

Physical damage, can be ANYTHING.

Can't install driver? Well if you don't see it under Device Manager, not even a yellow question mark, then BIOS doesn't see it. BIOS can't see, it doesn't exists, for whatever reason. Try CLEAR CMOS.

For the most part you want the driver directly available from Dell.