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    Aspire 4315-100508Ci Wireless Issues

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by shaunyboy, Jun 1, 2008.

  1. shaunyboy

    shaunyboy Newbie

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    Hi there.
    I bought my 4315 in NZ recently and it came with Ubuntu installed. I'm not much of a Linux guy, so I put Vista on it, no problems.

    Vista started acting up a bit, so I reformatted with XP. Now I'm having problems installing the driver for the Atheros Wireless Lan (on the bottom of the laptop it has the code Atheros AR5BXB63).

    In device manager it simply says "Network Controller" and is listed as an unknown device. I've tried installing both the Broadcom and Atheros driver software for XP and neither work, it still stays the same in device manager, and it does not come up under network connections.

    Does anyone know how I can get this working?

    Thanks,
    Shaun
     
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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  3. shaunyboy

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    Thanks for the links. But no matter which driver I try to install, the setup comes up with the message "The Device may not be present or could have been ejected/unplugged from the system. Insert or Reinsert Now."

    I can then continue through the installation by pressing OK, but it doesn't install the driver.
     
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    By the way, my vendor ID is 8086 and dev ID is 4222. I can't find these in all the INF files. Which is strange, considering they are Atheros drivers and everything says mine is Atheros
     
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    Ok. Got it sorted. It's actually an intel chip. Even though it has an Atheros sticker on the outside of the laptop, I checked out the vendor ID and looked at the sticker on the chip itself.

    Cheers
     
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    glad you got that resolved

    later,
    bigO
     
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    Hi Shaunyboy,

    I brought three of the Aspire 4315-100508Ci Notebook from DSE in NZ on 23 June 08 for family and I too can't get the wireless to work under WinXP using the two drivers you mentioned. Spent the last two weeks trying to put XP on these machines (with lots of problems) and solve the wireless problem.

    The problem I'm having with the wireless, which seems to be atheros is that won't hold the connection.

    I found and tried installing an intel driver for xp I found, but no luck. What drivers did you use and how did you fix the wireless problem? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers

    Leeroy T
     
    leeroyt, Jun 30, 2008
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    hoggie old boy

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    i stopped windows zero configuration in services and just use the broadcom software. and i made sure the box for " Let windows configure your connection" is unchecked.
    now with the braodcom software my connection never drops.
    because i had to keep restarting WZC every time my connection dropped :(
    EDIT: i did read some where that XP is still set-up mostly for dial-up and there are some tweaks to speed things up.
    will try and find it :)
     
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    hoggie old boy

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    good info hoggie... i had forgotten all about this.... i forget a lot
     
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    Hey Guys, thanks for your suggestions.

    I still can't seem to get the wireless connection going.

    Here are the details on my machine:
    Acer Aspire 4315-100508Ci
    Model: MS2220

    The wireless adapter model # on the outside sticker is:
    Atheros AR5BXB63

    This is what I have done so far:

    1) Updated atheros drivers to latest for the model above, the connection keeps dropping almost immediately after it connects, so I ...

    2) Tried installing intel pro drivers, but they won't match up with the wireless network card.

    I also opened the cover and had a look at the adapter card, but there was no branding on it.

    I did find a part number,PN: 54.03174.081, which I googled and found an intel driver suitable both for winxp and vista: AHCI_Intel_v7.5.0.1017_Vista_XP.zip. Downloaded this but no luck with it.

    3) Turned off wzc and tried atheros client to connect
    wireless, however it won't make a successful connection and hangs.

    4) Installed the winxp sp2 WPA patch in case it was a windows issue, but still no luck.

    Do you need to have all the winxp updates installed?

    Any suggestions would be appreciated.

    Cheers

    Leon
     
    leeroyt, Jul 2, 2008
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    Yes, I downloaded and tried the driver from the link you supplied, although this is on one of the machines that I had installed others drivers on before. Do you think this matters at all?

    I haven't updated all the windows updates patches yet, so I'll try that. Can you remember if you had these all up-to-date BEFORE you installed Atheros driver?
     
    leeroyt, Jul 2, 2008
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