windows 7 on hp dv6146

Hi everybody, I tried installing Windows 7 32 bit on a HP dv6146

Everything works fine, but not the wireless

when I push the wireless switch, nothing happens, in "device manager" everything is correctly installed, but there is no trace of any wireless adapter

is there a known problem or it is just me?

 

Try getting the drivers for it from HPs website.
Get the Vista drivers, they should work with Windows 7.

 

still dosn't work

in device manager I only find one element, NVIDIA nForce controller (usually I find two devices, one for ethernet and one for wlan)

I tried every driver on HP website

but another strange thing is that moving the frontal wlan switch, the orange led near of it remains orange and in connection manager I can only see the LAN network

Is possible that a broken switch is the responsible? but is possible that there is no trace of any wireless device in any part of windows? is there a way to force the wlan to activate without the frontal switch?

 

Try re-flashing the BIOS. Make sure you run the BIOS program as administrator and that you have no other windows up at the time of running.

 

Have you had any overheating gpu issues with your Dv6?

 

BIOS reflashed
every driver reinstalled
I changed the wireless module with another from another working notebook

the weird thing is that I installed HP wireless assistant but it won't start at all (maybe it doesn't work under windows 7??)

for what I can say, no overheating

 

It works under Win7. Try reinstalling it with UAC off.

D/L Wireless assistant SP45222 from the softpak library: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/

 

yordanrhapsody:

Go into the BIOS (press F10 during bootup). There is an option to enable/disable the WLAN. Make sure that is enabled.

Also, if you have time, try installing Windows XP and see if the Device Manager shows the wireless adapter.

Seems like either the wireless switch is broken (like you suspect with the orange light), or the mini-pcie slot is broken and won't detect the wireless card.