Windows 10: Wlan is dead? no connections are available

After 8 hours of troubleshooting and searching, i am not any closer to fixing this. the wlan driver on my Dell xps 15 l501x has disappeared after waking it from sleep today, after years of it working just fine.i have made no changes, no updates, installed any program, or dismantled the laptop, it occured on its own.

the ethernet connections are there, but no wlan. on the device manager, there is only the list of WAN miniports and Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller, which doesnt work even after removing and installing.

the network card inside the computer is Intel centrino wireless-n 1000 rev a00.


things i have tried:

network troubleshooter, only indicates problems with ethernet


rollback driver. no option with the realtek driver


update driver, no internet to update with


reinstall intel centrino wireless driver. setup errors "cannot install on this device"


reinstalling realtek driver. does not work after restarting. also seems to eternally reinstall itself after removing it from device manager


turned off firewall


used network reset


checked network card. oddly, it was not properly installed even after using it for many years (wires are now attached correctly)




tried using other drivers associated with the model of computer


starting in safe mode


system restore. did not fix the problem despto a point 2 weeks before this problem occurred

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UNWANTED auto-connection to WLAN

Dear farby,



Thank you for your suggestions, and apologies for my delay in replying. Poor health.

I have tried each of the suggested solutions, but still do not have the wanted result.

• WLAN connection deleted and reconfigured. While the WLAN was absent, the provider internet connection began self-connection just as the WLAN had done.
  • On reconfiguring the WLAN, both it and the provider internet connection began self-connecting.
• On re-setting the factory settings, as soon as boot completed, internet connection was requested. On dismissal of request, WLAN self-connected as before.

It would seem that something really wants to get out onto the web, or maybe the 'phone is just 'phoning home.

Please help.

 

Using netsh wlan commands not working

It comes up in the list of available WiFi networks but it isn't a network that I have ever connected to. I'm connected to my own private WiFi network and have never seen another network show up on the list until now. It has a padlock mark on it which, I think, means I couldn't use it anyway because it's password-protected. I don't want to use it. I just don't want to see it in my Action Center. As I said, I tried a netsh wlan command to block the network, and used another netsh wlan command that was meant to also hide blocked networks from the list, but this rogue network still shows up on the list in my Action Center. It shows up for about 10 seconds, then disappears. Confusing...In fact, it happened again just now...showed up on the list for a few seconds, then disappeared all of a sudden.

 

N8 keeps connecting to OVI Store via WAP when WLAN available

Help!



My N8 keeps connecting to OVI Store via WAP when WLAN available. Not only is WLAN available, it is connected and #1 in the list - checked via Connection Manager.



The Browser etc. has no problem - uses WLAN as expected. I can't find anywhere to set the OVI Store access priorities - I assume it's supposed to use Connection Manager?