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Having bother with wireless on an Acer Aspire 4720Z

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  • 07-06-2013 12:19am
    #1
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭


    I reloaded the laptop with a Dell Vista Home Premium disk and the product key on the bottom of the laptop. Device manager see the wireless nic but I can't get a driver for it. The Acer site has three drivers under wireless, Intel, Broadcom and Atheros. I tried all three but none worked. The Intel driver installed on the computer but didn't enable the nic. The Broadcom and Atheros installers said a relevant nic wasn't detected. Windows update didn't have a driver either.

    There's an on/off switch for the nic on the case but this doesn't do anything. Maybe that needs the driver too.

    Any ideas?

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    #2
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,213 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Right click the Network Controller item within Other Devices and get the properties
    Details tab, choose HardwareIDs
    use vendor and device codes on this site: http://www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=1408


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    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    Cheers, I'll do that now. I did put the hardware ID into Google and it came back with broadcom. So, I tried the broadcom driver from the Acer website again but no joy.


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    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    Good site that but it doesn't seem to have the nic listed.

    The hardware ID is:

    PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4315&SUBSYS_E003105B

    Edit: Got it here: http://devid.info/kk/36611 :)


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