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I just got finished reinstalling a fresh windows 7 64bit on my fiances uncles laptop. I was reinstalling the drivers and the only one thats missing is the wireless network adapter driver. I run the scan on the HP site and it doesn't come up with any drivers for the Wireless adapter. It's not showing that i have anymore drivers that need to be installed or updated. But still the wireless adapter is not working. I can't seem to find the driver anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. This is an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.

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Hi:

 

You are probably not following the instructions to find the hardware ID to the letter.

 

Below is the link to the driver you need for the wireless card in that model.

 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=32...

 

I was able to find it by going to the HP parts surfer website and input the product number from that model.

 

Last item listed.

 

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=A6Y56UA

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Hi:

 

Please go to the device manager, click on the device labeled as a Network Controller, and post the hardware ID for it.

 

If you do not know where to find the hardware ID, please use the guide at the link below for assistance.

 

http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Hardware-ID

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it doesn't have any id. It says Manufactur unknown. but the laptop  is an HP Pavilion dv6-6c11nr ... This laptop was a complete mess and barely worked so i decided to clean it off like new for him while he's up for vacation. So he doesn't have any driver disc with him obviously. And their are no Id's in the Device Manager. I click Network Controller and it only says Unknown. It's under "Other Devices" with a yellow marking beside it. I'm using my own adapter at the moment to try getting his drivers installed. I'v looked everywhere for driver. This is the only thing i have been able to find online about the name.

 

 

 

Product Name dv6-6c11nr Product Number A6Y56UA#ABA Microprocessor 2.5GHz/1.9GHz VISION A4 Technology from AMD with AMD Dual-Core A4-3305M Accelerated Processor Microprocessor Cache 1MB L2 Cache Memory 4GB DDR3 SDRAM (1 DIMM) Memory Max Maximum supported = 16GB Video Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6480G Discrete-Class Graphics Video Memory Up to 2037MB Hard Drive 500GB 5400RPM) Multimedia Drive SuperMulti DVD burner Display 15.6-inch diagonal HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366x768) Network Card 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Wireless Connectivity

  • 802.11b/g/n WLAN

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  • Beats Audio with 4 speakers
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Hi:

 

You are probably not following the instructions to find the hardware ID to the letter.

 

Below is the link to the driver you need for the wireless card in that model.

 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=32...

 

I was able to find it by going to the HP parts surfer website and input the product number from that model.

 

Last item listed.

 

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=A6Y56UA

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Thanks so much for your help! Appreciate it very much!

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You're very welcome.

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Hi im on my acer trying to fix my pavilion dv6-1360us. i havew lost all of my driver files and cant get on to the web. under the device manager i have network adapters, sub set are 1.  intel(R) wifi link 1000bgn 2. realtek PCIe GBE family controls 3  now i tryed to remove the next 6 but cant get them to uninstall they are 1 wan miniport (IKEv2) 2. wan miniport (PI) 3. WAN Miniport (IPv6) 4.  W M (network monitor) 5. W M (PPPOE) 6. W M (PPTP  i dont want hp to scan my acer and tell me it is not a hp all i need is a way to down load the driver to a file that i can put on a mem stick to load on the other computer.  and i need to know what to do with the files i cant remove they have a  !  on each of them. just want to fix the wifes computer as it has been down for 45 days now and she wants to kill me.

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I had the same problem and you just solved it. Many thanks!

 

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