need some help, no wireless

[kunai40]

a while back there was a power outage and it screwed up my laptop, had to bring it in to get fix and they had to reinstall everything using their cds because i was to lazy to go back and drop of mine, anyway ever since there i can't turn on the wireless, is there a way to reinstall the wireless without having to reinstall everything?   

[Hoov]

Go into the device manager in the control panel and see if it shows up there. If there is a yellow exclamation mark or a red X all you need to do is update the drivers, or install them, and it should work. If you double click on the wireless device, there will be a button there for updating the drivers.

[kunai40]

i'm looking in device manager and network controller under other devices has a yellow exclamation mark, aside from that i'm not seeing anything that says wireless

[Hoov]

What is your make and model of your laptop?

[kunai40]

it's an acer, as far as model number, not sure, there's a few numbers on the bottom, what dose the model number usually start with?

[Hoov]

Is it a TravelMate, Aspire, or Extensa?

[kunai40]

aspire 5000

[Hoov]

Here is the link to the driver you need. Download it and install it. If that is the wrong one, then try this one. The first is an Atheros driver, the second is a Broadcom. Those are the two wireless cards that shipped with your laptop. I don't know which one you have. But if you try to install the wrong one, it should tell you that the hardware is not present. If it does, try the other one. Even if it does install, and it is the wrong one, it still will not work. So you would then try the other one.

[kunai40]

I downloaded and installed the first one and it didn't do anything so i tried the second one and i got a message saying this application failed to start because file aegisE5.dll was not found, but wireless is working and its listed in the add remove program so i guess it still worked. Then i went to uninstall the first one then after my computer rebooted i keep getting a pop up saying the same thing this application failed to start because file aegisE5.dll was not found, what should i do?

[Hoov]

Does it cause a problem if you do nothing to it?

[kunai40]

if i press ok, the message pops back up in a few seconds

[Hoov]

Do a search on your entire harddrive and see if you can find aegisE5.dll

[kunai40]

found the file at least, now what?

[Hoov]

Copy it to the c:\windows\system32 folder, then reboot your computer.

[kunai40]

seems to be fine now, thanks for the help