No detectable wifi hardware in windows 7 bootcamp partition MBP?

I just did Boot Camp partition and installed windows 7 on brand new macbook pro 2011. Everything seems normal excpet I can't connect to the internet and it gives me a message saying no dectectable hardware for connecting to internet (I don't remember the exact wording it used, but you get the idea). What is causing this and can it be fixed?

mangeroj wrote:
still not working, input woud be appreciated
You'll likely get a faster reply to your Boot Camp related question in the Boot Camp forum https://discussions.apple.com/community/windows_software/boot_camp

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No detectable wifi hardware in windows 7 bootcamp partition?

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Hi all,
I have been trawling to get educated on this but haven't found an answer yet (except purchasing windows 7-not interested, but thanks in advance for telling me that I should abandon XP because it's over 10 years old). And also dont tell me to just virtualise, i will, but i also want to use bootcamp for better performance. Lots of people theorizing what might work, but here's your chance to see what's not working in reality (and help get it to work please!).
I had snow leopard with a working bootcamp partition running xp (also using parallels), on a late 2006 Mac book pro. Things were getting very slow so I really wanted a clean install of lion (and it has made a world of difference!)
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Question is, what's the best way to fix it? I'm reluctant to try bootcamp assistant 4.0 because I know it doesn't support xp.
In hindsight maybe I should have done a clean install of snow leopard onto the external drive, erased and restored to the internal, updated snow leopard to 10.6.8 (or whatever was necessary for lion install), checked that the boot camp partition still worked (if not fix it with boot camp assistant), then upgraded to lion (seeing as upgrading to lion when there's a working xp partition on bootcamp is supposed to work).
I could still do all that but I wonder if there is a better / cleaner / easier solution.
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Hi there,
I'm a relative noob when it comes to OSX so please be gentle with me.
I'm running an early 2011 Macbook Pro which initially had OSX Maverick with a Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. All was working perfectly and seamlessly until I enthusiastically decided to upgrade to OSX Yosemite which resulted in my Bootcamp partition disappearing. In my haste to try and fix this I looked through the apple support community questions and used fdisk to try and fix the issue.
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*** Report for internal hard disk ***
Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA Type
1                  40       409639 EFI System (FAT)
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3      490273856    491543399 Mac OS X Boot
4      563173376    625141759 Basic Data
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1              1       409639 ee EFI Protective
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3      490273856    491543399 ab Mac OS X Boot
4 *    563173376    625141759 07 NTFS/HPFS
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Have I well and truely ruined my bootcamp and have to start from scratch? It's not the end of the world since I backed up most of my important documents and pictures etc but it took me a long time to install all the software that I require for work on my Windows partition.
Any help or advice would be appreciated and again, please be gentle, I am a noob.
Thanks in advance!!

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