Issue repairing wireless nic g53sx

I have an issue repairing the wireless connection on my laptop. It was working fine last night aside from it dropping the network every 15 mins or so. I went into the device manager, selected the atheros ar9002wb -1ng device and uninstalled it deleting the software for the device.

When I re-installed it the wireless device is recognized in the device manager but windows has no clue it's installed. I can't get any wireless network connections to show up and windows says it's a driver issue but I have tried every driver I can find.

Here is a screenshot showing my issue, at the moment I am using my htc phone with wireless connection to get internet to this computer.



I figured I'd ask around here before doing a format/reload on my laptop so i anyone has any idea how to fix this strange issue please let me know.

 

Did you only do a single unsinstall. I would uninstall successively until the device isn't recognized if possible and then try reinstalling the driver from Asus, if that doesn't do it, I'd hit station driver for the most recent one.

 

Eh I format/reloaded it when I got home from work on Friday so I didn't have to deal with it. That seemed to be the only way to resolve the issue.

I uninstalled everything to do with that device including the bluetooth and it still wouldn't correctly install. I even tried to use Revo Uninstaller but it couldn't see any remains of the wifi driver. I'm thinking that something jacked up the registry for the wifi when I removed it from the device manager.

I'm using a driver i got directly from atheros and it's working flawlessly. I had all of the drivers for my laptop on my secondary drive so a format/reload was pretty effortless.

Thanks for the reply Tijo, I have no patience when I have problems with my own computer.

 

I completely understand, Atheros NICs have been problematic for me in the past, so I ditched all the ones I had in favor of Intel 6200s and 6300s and it's been working pretty well so far.