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Ok, here's the situation. I recently had to reinstall Windows 7 64 bit on my Samsung NP-RV511 laptop due to a hard drive issue. Having reinstalled Windows successfully, the computer does not recognise that it has a WLAn or LAN adapter. They are listed as "Ethernet Controller" and "Network Controller" in the Other Devices section of Device Manager. Apparently no drivers have been installed or could be found. It lists a Code 20.

I went hunting on Samsung's website for the correct drivers but the ones I found failed to solve the problem, even after restarting the laptop.

Any help would be much appreciated as I need this laptop working for uni on Monday.

Samsung's site lists three different possible wireless chipsets, and has drivers for all of them. You mentioned using one. Which one, and have you tried the other two yet?

Try uninstalling the wlan in device manager and restarting.

I used WLAN Broadcom Win 7, I'l try the others now.

Problem solved using a combination of the uninstall/restart and a different driver download. Thanks for the help guys!

Not a problem. A lot of the big PC makers (not that Samsung is one of these, they're decided a bit player) get really fuzzy about which wireless chipsets they use in any given model of system. It can make finding the right driver an excercise in frustration when there are four or five of them.

Total aside, be careful with your data. A Samsung system will have a Samsung hard drive, and I see a disproportionate number of those failing compared to how few of them I see in total here in the shop. I see more Seagates and WDs in absolute numbers, but Samsung is a bit player in the HDD market, and yet I see their drives fail often enough to stick in my memory, which is a bad sign.