Hi,
Around 1 month ago wireless stopped working on my personal laptop, the wireless link light at the front of the laptop is off and will not turn on. I am using a Lenovo SL500 (Intel Core 2 Duo) and running Vista Home Premium (32 bit) with Webroot Spy Sweeper (with AntiVirus) version 7.0.11.21 with Windows firewall turned on. My work laptop and X10i phone are able to connect via WiFi fine so I know it is not a problem with the dsl router.
Under Control Panel -> Device Manager -> Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 5100 device status shows up as ‘The device is working properly’.
I have tried updating the driver and I get a message saying it is already up to date. I have also tried disabling/enabling and restarting the PC without success. The driver version is 12.0.0.75. Haven’t been brave enough to uninstall and re-install.
I have also tried running ‘sfc/scannow from the command line but get the following error message “You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility.”. I am logged on as administrator when I run this command.
Can anyone please assist in getting this resolved?
Thanks,
Vineet
