How to Know if a Computer Has a Wireless Networking Card

How to Know if a Computer Has a Wireless Networking Card

How to Know if a Computer Has a Wireless Networking Card

This answer assumes you are using a Windows based Operating System. There are physical ways to check to see if your system has a Wireless Networking Card be it a laptop or a desktop. However, if you do not want to open up your system and risk creating a bigger problem here are the steps to check. This is also good for tablets running a Windows OS, like Surface Pro, where you normally can't open the chassis easily.

1.Go to the start menu and click on Control Panel. Alternately you can search "Control Panel" in the search menu (works with Windows 8).

2.Click on Hardware and Sound.

3.Click on Device Manager.

4.Look for the Network adapters tab, and expand the tree.

• Your network adapters will be listed here. If you have a wireless adapter it should be fairly obvious from the name of it. However, if it is not you can always do an internet search with the name of the device and verify if it is in fact a wireless network adapter.