Lan and wireless rant *long w/ cliffs*

[serialkiller]

LAIUDOIFJAIOSDHGOIAHSGIOHJASDKFJLASDJFSDA... IM SO DARN TICKED OFF BECAUSE OF THIS RETARDED DRIVER AND NOTBOOK..

NOW BEAR(is it bare or bear?) WITH ME PEEPS,

So I have a notebook which is specificaly used for work, so it has a "special" image allready loaded on it for my company use. For the longest time I couldnt get the darn LAN to work... I checked the my network --> properties to see what I have under connections and the only thing that popped up is the dell 1450 wlan mini pci card driver... So then I realized that there was probably no driver loaded for LAN so I go into device manager to see what I have under network... and surely enough I only had the dell 1450 wlan mini pci card driver. So I go to the dell website to check what lan drivers are there for my notebook... I found 1 driver for lan so I dled it and loaded it up.... open up my network and I find the local area connection icon.... FOR 1 SECOND AND THEN IT FRIGGIN DISAPEARED.... so I uninstalled it and reinstalled.... didnt work... so I uninstalled it again... and weirdly enough it started working WITHOUT the driver installed.... so for the night I continue doing work and browsing the net etc.... I shut the notebook off and restart it back the next day... THE FRIGGIN LOCAL AREA CONNECTION ICON IS GONE!!! but the drivers are still there.... so I uninstall everything and reinstall it... and it works fine........ shut it down and restart it.... AND ITS FRIGGIN GONE AGAIN!!!!..... SO i UNINSTALL BOTH WIRELESS CARD AND LAN DRIVER AND RESTART..... OMG.... THE DRIVERS MAGICALLY REAPPEARED ....... ???????????? ..... SO I UNINSTALL ALL THE DRIVERS AGAIN AND REBOOT...... AGAIN THE DRIVERS MAGICALLY REAPPEARED.!@$!#$!#$!#$#%.... SO i DO THIS LIKE 3-4 TIMES BECAUSE i WANT TO GET RID OF THE ALL NETWORK DRIVERS TO REINSTALL THEM TO GET A FRESH START...... BUT AFTER I UNINSTALL THEM THEY MAGICALLY REAPPEAR AFTER REBOOT.......LKASJDFKLJASDF.... NOW WHEN I GO TO MY NETWORK I HAVE 'WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION 6' AND 'LOCAL AREA CONNECTION 6' ICONS.......... for now they work fine.... but im sure after i reboot the lan will probably magically disapear again..... am I doing something wrong here? or im just retarded?


cliffs:
notebook will not retain LAN driver
works after drivers uninstalled... but lan icon disapears later
doesnt work when drivers are actually installed...
i hate life......

 

[KLin]

Worst rant ever.

 

[serialkiller]

Originally posted by: KLin
Worst rant ever.

hmmm, maybe this should of been posted in the general hardware for help...... either way wth is wrong with this?

 

[FoBoT]

was it a grizzly bear? there is a dude here that knows a lot about grizzly bears

 

[NiKeFiDO]

i voted for pedro

 

[Hubris]

Someone needs some Ritalin.

 

[SeaMonki]

since you mention the laptop is for work, perhaps your user profile does not have administrator permission rights to install any software.

majority of the companies lock user's administrative rights out nowadays so s/he does not install or download unwanted company software.

 

[EKKC]

word. there are self-healing or self-updating corporate images to prevent non-approved drivers to be used. dont like it? quit. or get another personal laptop

 

[serialkiller]

well the weird thing is I have admin rights...... and why wouldnt they have the LAN driver installed? that means I cant get internet through LAN but can through wireless....=\....