Wireless Driver not supporting

Question

Hi,

My name is Harmeet Singh and I am using Dell Vostro 1014 (Windows 8.1 pro -64 bit) and suddenly its wifi card stopped working (not showing in device manager even) so I have inserted another working wireless card (Intel (R) Centrino (R) Advanced -N 6205) from Lenovo X220i laptop and after installing its driver it is showing yellow mark in device manager.

So I have formatted it and now I have installed Windows 7 Pro -64 bit but still same issue is there. I have tried many times with different drivers from different sites even from intel site but this issue is not resolving.

Can anyone help me in this issue?

Bios08 · Answer

Hello Harmeet

When you said that its gone from device manager sound like your wifi card died.

What I think its better is when you installed Intel (R) Centrino (R) Advanced -N 6205) from Lenovo X220i

connect your laptop via LAN and delete all drivers for wifi card, reboot and while connected to LAN - (Wired) let windows detect the drivers and install the drivers

Hope that helps

harmeetsinghme · Answer

Hi, I have formatted my laptop and still it is not working.

Bios08 · Answer

This really is a bad situation, sounds like your drivers are wrong for intel card, but need to ask you couple more questions

- when using original wireless card is sit showing device manager?

- with Intel card , did you download from lenovo or intel site?

- what OS are you running?

- did you try to connect by lan and see if windows update finds the drivers?

harmeetsinghme · Answer

1) I am using Windoes 7 Pro 64-bit.

2) Original wireless card was not showing in device manager that is why I have changed it.

3) I have downloded and installed drivers from both Intel site as well as lenovo but didn't get success. I am uninstalling them also so that they can not override each other.

4) I have tried to update windows also by connecting LAN but it is not getting update.

Bios08 · Answer

Thank you

I went to check Lenovo site for x220 and shows

Intel WiMAX 6250 AGN for Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad

Intel Wireless LAN (bg, abg, abgn) for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP - ThinkPad

ThinkPad Wireless LAN (802.11b/g/n) for Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) - ThinkPad

3 different drives , first one shows 6250 card but you said 6205 i am assuming that is a typo.

Yellow exclamation sign means driver is wrong but system is detecting it which is good. can you please tell me the FRU number on the card ( part number)

This has a fix I am convinced, I solved many weird wifi issues.

Sorry I am asking you alot of questions

harmeetsinghme · Answer

FRU number - 60Y3253, and the wireless driver I need is 6205 as showing in Device Manager.

harmeetsinghme · Answer

and don't be sorry, you are trying to help me. Thank you for helping me out.

Sacrebandit · Answer

Hi I'm facing the same issue. Did you find a solution?

reset67 · Answer

Hi I'm facing the same issue. Did you find a solution?

kompilci · Answer

what is your model and device details ?

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