I have a dell e1505 with a broadcom wireless card (at least i think that was it) but about a week ago i was browsing the internet a my friends office and the internet just stopped working. We thought the router had just shut off or got unplugged but when i got home i couldnt even get on wireless at my house and my computer doesnt even say it has a wireless card anymore. I have no idea what happend it just stopped working and ive installed 3 different drivers from dell and none have worked it still wont detect a wireless card. Amd X2 4400+ @2.4ghz 3Gig Corsair DFI RS Mobo ATI Radeon x850xt pciXpress 256mb Antec Trupower 430watt Creative soundblaster pci 200Gb seagate IDE 7200rpm 250Gb Samsung SATA

Usually on a Laptop you can turn off Wireless with a FN + ? Key, did you read the manual ??

I have used the fn+3 key which is the wifi hotkey to try to turn it back on, but it does nothing. I know I didnt press it when this happened because it just stopped all of a sudden. When i go into the network connections there is only a LAN connection, no wireless, so its not just disabled its like the hardware is totally gone. Amd 3700+ 2Gig Corsair Msi-Ms-7184 mobo ATI Radeon x850xt pciXpress 256mb Antec Trupower 430watt Creative soundblaster pci 200Gb seagate IDE 7200rpm

I think that your wireless hardware has failed. Can you get a wireless card to try in your laptop? You could even get a cheap USB wireless adapter. Good Smitty

I know its been two months but if anyone still cares I took my computer apart and the wireless card had fallen out of the slot...imagine that Windows Vista Ultimate Amd X2 4400+ 3Gig Corsair Msi-Ms-7184 mobo ATI Radeon x850xt pciXpress 256mb Antec Trupower 430watt Creative soundblaster pci 200Gb seagate IDE 7200rpm