How to Update Your Driver - Windows
Posted by WCL Office of Technology at 7:10 PM in Wireless
Does your computer have the most recent wireless driver?
To find out, from the Start Menu choose Run and enter devmgmt.msc and press enter. This brings up the Device Manager. Expand the section below Network Adapters to find your wireless card. (see image at left for example.)
Double-click the card and choose the Driver tab. Here you can view the Driver Version and Driver Date, use this information to compare with the vendor website.
Some of the major vendors and recent drivers are listed below.
Below are links to a few major laptop and wireless network card manufacturers. You can enter your laptop's model information into these pages to get updated drivers for your specific laptop unit:
If your manufacturer isn't listed here, try a Google search for their name followed by "drivers."
If your manufacturer isn't listed here, try a Google search for their name followed by "drivers."
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