How to download and install Internet drivers I accidentally deleted on my PC?

[User_06042024]

I was hoping someone could help me figure out how to download and install Internet drivers that I accidentally deleted. I'm not able to get online on my laptop and I know it's because I deleted the driver's. How do I download and reinstall them please?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

According to the parts list for your notebook, it comes with a Realtek RTL8188EE-VJ 802.11b/g/n 1x1 Wi-Fi adapter.

HP PartSurfer

This is the latest W10 driver HP has for that model Wi-Fi adapter:

Realtek RTL8xxx Wireless LAN Drivers 

2024.0.4.208      05/26/2019

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp150501-151000/sp150994.exe 

Download the driver from another PC.

Copy it to a USB fash drive.

Plug the flash drive in your 14-Am052nr's USB port, and you can either copy the file to the Windows desktop and run the file or run it directly from the USB flash drive.

[User_06042024]

Hi Paul, 

Thank you so much for your response. I'm a little confused though, do I have to buy the adapter in order to run the driver on my pc once I download the driver to a usb driver on a different pc? I didn't realize this mistake was going to cost me $60 dollars. I really hope I am wrong.

Thank you so much again.

Jenna

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Jenna.

You don't need to buy anything if you already have a USB flash drive/thumb drive to copy the file to.

[User_06042024]

Okay, thank you for clarifying that. 

So I did all the steps that you had mentioned. I went to the link that you had provided and copied that to a USB thumb drive, then I plugged into my laptop in question and ran and installed it. Then I restarted the PC and it's still not letting me connect to the Internet. I know for a fact my intetnet is working because I'm connected to it on all my other devices. 

Do you maybe have an idea of what it might be? Because a few weeks ago I was trying to free up space on my Notebook so I started deleting a bunch of random stuff. Not too smart. I now know that. But I haven't been able to come t to the Internet since. 

I have already went to go support and saved all the intent related drivers to a thumb drive and did the same process you had given me for all 7 of those drivers and that didn't work either. 

Any idea what I might have to do to fix this issue?

Thank you!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Go to the device manager.

Click to expand the Network adapters device manager category.

Do you see a Realtek RTL8188EE-VJ Wi-Fi adapter listed there?

If not, the Wi-Fi adapter has probably failed and under those circumstances I recommend you purchase a USB Wi-Fi adapter.

I use this model on my HP desktop PC that doesn't have Wi-Fi.

Amazon.com: USB WiFi Bluetooth Adapter, 600Mbps Dual Band 2.4/5Ghz Wireless Network External Receive...

It is small and hardly sticks out of the USB port.  It even has Bluetooth.