And then it just stopped working (wireless issue)

I have an averatec 3200 laptop, I was in England over the last semester so I never had a chance to try out it's wireless connectivity. Once I came home, I tried connecting to the internet and was successful. I played around online and then let my laptop rest for about a month.

I have never been able to connect to the internet ever since. In fact, it keeps telling me that there is no wireless network available. I know this is not true because it is sitting right next to my desktop right now and it is connected to the wireless network. In fact, it would be about a foot closer to the router than the desktop.

I checked several things, and the only thing that seems to be fishy about my laptop is that when I go to add/remove programs. Broadcom Utilities takes up no memory. In fact, my modem seems to have no file size either. Everything that might control a function to allow me to access the internet seems to not have a file size.

In fact, when I click on broadcom under my control panel it tells me that there are no compatible drivers. I did not erase anything from my laptop.

Is it possible that since I am running on XP, that Windows may have updated my laptop while I was online the first time and then disabled my ability to reconnect?

I'm stumped.

 

Paradox,

It is possible that some drivers under add/remove program show up as 0mb, because sometimes they appear in the list, even if only the bare driver was installed, not even making a whole megabytes of data. Or the driver is still in the list, and the target is non-existant.

I suggest you get the newest driver available here: http://www.averatec.com/customercare/files/3200_Drivers/AE64002.EXE . I suggest that you uninstall the wireless driver in add/remove program, then go check in device manager if it's really removed. If it's not, remove it. then reboot and install the driver you have downloaded.

Please let me know if that doesn't fixe anything.

Math