today I opened up my laptop and noticed that the wireless card light was stuck on orange for off even though the switch was in the on position. I did all the normal restart computer/router stuff, and nothing worked. I'm wondering if anyone knows what I can do to remedy this.

Possibly a driver issue.

May be, but I just downloaded a new one previous to this problem. Thinking that might be the problem i switched back to the old one and it still didn't work.

K.. can you give the exact driver of this wireless card and its full complete name?