 EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | Acer Aspire 4745 Atheros Wireless I've got a Acer Apsire 4745 running Windows 7 x64 I downloaded the Atheros driver via Acers website but windows still can't find the driver for it.
I've also tried the Intel and Broadcom. I used the tool Acer has to verify manufacture information and it is indeed the Atheros Wireless Card. Windows 7 Device Manager Just says it's a Network Device doesn't say what kind it is. I've tried removing the device from device manager and restarting, I tried selecting the folders location and so on. Can't seem to get it to work with the driver.
Ideas?
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| What are the drivers from Acer like? Did they come as a zip? exe? Did anything execute or did it just create a folder and copy files to it? If there's a folder, is there a setup.exe or something similar there?
In device manager, what happens if you tell Windows to look online for a driver? (assuming you have a wired connection to use at the time).
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | It's a zip that I've extracted which then has both the setup.exe and just the folder with drivers. The zip archive and setup doesn't extract the drivers to anything like C:/WiFi or anything of the sort. I know some drivers just dump the driver file to the root directory.
I've told windows to search online and it basically just hops to the next screen and says it couldn't find anything. Not really sure where the problem seems to be.
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| Go to the device's properties, in from the Details tab use the dropdown menu to select Hardware Ids, and post the hardware IDs for that device.
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Woburn, MA | PCI\VEN_168C8DEV_002E&SUBSYS_E03410513
PCI\VEN_168C8DEV_002E&CC_0280 |
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»support.acer.com/product/default···lId=2150
make sure it is for the OS you are using on right now. |
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | That's the problem is I downloaded it from Acers site still can't get it to work for some strange reason. I'll have to tripple check the OS download. |
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| Doing this, the Acer needs to be on the lan wire.
Try this:
Go to your "Device Manager"
Right click on the unknown device, that you want the drivers for.
Click on "Update Driver Software", and then click the first one "Search automatically for updated driver software"
See would that work. |
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | Tried that, it's on the LAN interface hardwired every other driver is there. I've tried multiple times and just reinstalled the package and windows just says that the device could not be installed because no driver could be found |
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| Instead of "Search automatically", choose 'Browser my computer for driver software' and point it to where you extracted the driver, and check "Include subfolders".
I looked through the driver INF, and I didn't see an exact match for your device. PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_002E is there but not with "&SUBSYS_E03410513". If the above doesn't work then Acer isn't providing a proper driver for some reason.
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kudos:1 | reply to Edrick
Every Atheros driver is here: »www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-drivers.php but you need to know which one you have. It didn't come up easily in a google search. |
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | What's the best way to determine which one it is I take it I just need to open the bottom where the card is and have a looksey. |
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redxiiPremium,Mod
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Sherwood, MI | Either a AR5B97 or AR9287. |
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pnjunctionTeksavvy ExtremePremium
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kudos:1 | Well if it's one of those two it's the same driver anyways. Same driver for most of them really you'll see the huge list at the top. |
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Now to wait for him to come back and see what it is. =D |
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Kihei, HI | reply to Edrick
try.... copy everything out of the zip folder and then right click on the setup.exe and run it as adminstrator
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EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
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Woburn, MA | reply to Edrick
The direct driver worked, windows found it. It just said it couldn't verify the creator of it. But hey it worked and for some reason the Acer site ones didn't |
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