Its a new laptop for me,secound hand..
It was working - now its not, I did reset the modem and have had to update the wifi password on all devices.
So I thought this problem "as above " was just a settings problem.
I did all the above, even the stone age ifx, Still the wifi was not able to enable,
The problem has now been solved by ---
"This is making me look real smart " when putting the battery back in, i looked around the laptop and found a small slide switch marked "" WIFI"
3 hours later I flicked the switch and entered the new password and its working.
I think this falls under the heading of "opperator error"
I think some of the above people may have had the same problem, but no one wants to own up to the solution.