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Hi guys,

It seems I've got a pretty similar problem.

I've been connecting to a wireless router at home through this laptop for several months now, and in the last few days it's been acting up.

Whenever I booted up the laptop, it wouldn't auto-connect to the network and when I pulled up the 'connect to a network' no networks displayed at all. Normally a few of the neighbours' wireless networks are there.
So I was quite puzzled and so I just dug up some old install files for the drivers and installed the ones that I thought were relevant: "Broadcom wireless lan" and "nvidia network something-something".
So I reinstalled those two, rebooted, and I got a popup saying the drivers were installed correctly or something, and it connected to the network.

Repeat this for a few days and now reinstalling the driver doesn't solve it anymore. I've reinstalled the two drivers countless times, rebooted countless times, and I've just plugged my laptop directly into the router and gotten the more recent "broadcom wireless lan" driver and I got the BIOS update while I was at it. A few more installs + reboots later and still no progress.

I noticed the same thing with HP Wireless Assist too, where only the bluetooth would display and the wireless was non-existant.
There seems to be no issues in the Device manager in regards to little yellow exclamation marks, although I don't seem to be able to locate the wireless network adapter. That may be a problem.

Anyway, that's the situation. Pretty similar to what's been explained above. You're not alone, guys!

Also, regarding the advice just above.
I've checked in services and WLAN is there and its status is 'started' with the automatic startup alraedy enabled. So yeah, it's still there in Services.

I hope that information helped.

[Eagerly] Looking forward to your solutions!
Cheers,

Jason