[SOLVED] No sign of WiFi whatsoever

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Hello,

I bought a HP Pavilion 15 - dk0004nq, after installing windows 10 there is no sign of wifi anywhere - not in the tooltip in the bottom right, not in the device manager nor in the network settings where it only shows the ethernet option. I downloaded and installed the drivers for my laptop model from the HP website but nothing changed, i also activated everything with wireless or WLAN in the services. Is there any way to fix this.

Also windows doesnt install any updates if that helps solving the case.
 
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I'm using an older HP computer 3.4 Ghz. For the internet I have Verizon and use a gateway which has the modem and router in one package. The gateway is supplied by Verizon and has fairly easy instructions. The setup was done quite a while ago but I'm sure I had to go to two different sites, one for ethernet and one for the wifi. I use the (left corner) above power settings which shows ethernet and wifi and it shows I am connected to both. It seems HP connected you to ethernet and now you have to find a place where you can get the Wifi working. I found a HP support site that may help https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c05795848. It says you have wifi connectivity using Intel® 802.11b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi Make sure...
Dec 1, 2019
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What OS did it come with?
Possibly FreeDOS?

After the Windows install, did you install the HP drivers for the WiFi?
Yes it was FreeDOS and I downloaded and installed the "Realtek RTL8xxx Wireless LAN Drivers" for my laptop model from the hp website and after they didnt work i downloaded "Intel WLAN Driver" again from there but it also didnt work
 

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I'm using an older HP computer 3.4 Ghz. For the internet I have Verizon and use a gateway which has the modem and router in one package. The gateway is supplied by Verizon and has fairly easy instructions. The setup was done quite a while ago but I'm sure I had to go to two different sites, one for ethernet and one for the wifi. I use the (left corner) above power settings which shows ethernet and wifi and it shows I am connected to both. It seems HP connected you to ethernet and now you have to find a place where you can get the Wifi working. I found a HP support site that may help https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c05795848. It says you have wifi connectivity using Intel® 802.11b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi Make sure you have the drivers for it and then find the site to connect to.
 
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