Computer geekery is not really my thing, though I am confident enough to set up computers, add peripherals and try things out. But this week I am awarding myself the 'level 1' geekery badge for fixing ... so far so good... the wireless problem on my gleaming laptop. Using the trusty old steam driven computer with an ethernet-DSL link I'd googled enough to discover that the same problem arose with this make of laptop, this version of the operating system and this broadband supplier. So which was it? Finding a wireless hotspot it became clear the problem was in the machine not the modem. So, eventually having exhausted other options, I hooked it up via ethernet, downloaded a replacement wireless driver (even though auto update told me the one I had was the latest) and hey presto, wireless restored.
All of which seems worthy of elementary geekery - at least in my book. Hopefully it will stay fixed now.....