genethekiller

Well, it doesn't look like anyone here has been able to really help. I registered here for the sole purpose of giving my 2 cents based on my experience with this thing.

1. This machine is absolutely temperamental and doesn't seem to agree with itself half the time between vista's endless "user friendly" programs and HP's craptapular device driver programs.

2. This seems to be, at least in my case, (which is exactly as described here) a problem which can be, albeit after several restarts with unsuccessful enabling attempts within the vista device manager function, solved within HP's software.

It looks like to me, that HP has essentially hijacked the majority of the software controls of the wireless card, leaving vista dumbfounded when attempting to enable, or disable the card, leading to our wonderful device manager lock-up issue.

I solved my problem (for the time being :/) by clicking on the bubble which pops up after "attempting" to enable to card by hitting the amber button we all love. This led me to HP's "connection center" if I remember correctly. I just went then to the device controller, which showed itself as being disabled, clicked it, and immediately the button went blue and automatically connected to my favorite networl.

Well, that's what worked for me, hopefully this works for some of you as well.

This laptop was to replace the old HP that crapped out on me. It's 3 months old. HP has driven me to consider getting an apple.