
The laptops have a Dell Wireless 1505 Draft 802.11 n WLAN Mini-Card or a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card install and we are using Cisco AP's. To do that, simply follow the steps below: Go to your taskbar and click the Internet Access icon. One of the simplest ways to fix your Wi-Fi issues is by changing the properties of your wireless connection. Method 8: Changing the properties of your Wi-Fi connection. To connect manually then it must be something with the profiles from the GPO maybe? Go to Network and Sharing Center, then try adding your wireless connection. I originally though this might be a hardware compatibility issue but if I can get it Sharing Center -> Setup up a new connection or network -> Manually connect to a wireless network it will at least see the SSID and connect to it but not automatically. Now if I take one of these machines that has not taken the GPO yet and add the hidden SSID manually by going to Control Panel -> Network and If I run "netsh wlan show profiles" I can see each of our profiles have been loaded We have begun to deploy Windows 8 Enterprise and on some of our older Dell D630 laptops they cannot see or connect to our hidden SSID's that are loaded through the GPO.
