Noobie need help

Hello everyone,
This is my first post on this forum so first of all I wanna say thanks for helping all the people in need of assistance. Ok, I have a Acer TravelMate 2420 that my sister gave me last year. I formatted the HD and wiped out the partition section on the HD. I found all the drivers that I needed except my wireless doesnt work. I have downloaded every different wireless driver from the acer site and nothing works. OH, my sister lost the Recovery Disc for this computer as well. When i go to my device manager, there is yellow "?" beside the following"

Other devices:
------------- Network Controller?
------------- PCI Modem?

am i missing something or what??? lol

thanks in advance

Mastergrader

 

Welcome to NBR.

PCI Modem is..obviously the modem
Network controller can be the lan or the wireless. For this model Acer has 3 types of drivers(unbelievable!) - XP TM2420, XP TM2420 A and Vista TM2420. What OS do you have? If it's XP and you don't know if you have TM2420 or TM2420A you tried them both?
The naming of the drivers is awful so maybe you got confused. For wireless drivers you need to download what is called 80211bg(TM2420) or intel_80211abg(TM2420A). Hmm actually there are no Vista drivers for the wireless adapter...assuming that the card is Intel you'll have to go to downloadcenter.intel.com and get the driver from there.

 

If your Ethernet is working, you can try Windows Update.

 

i tried windows update and it didnt work still. i will go and try the download centre. thanks and i will let you know. i downloaded the 80211bg thing a ma jigger a bunch of times from the acer website and nothing works. and my OS is xp. thanks peeps.

 

downloadcenter.intel.com is an invalid address???

 

HOLY CRAP!! i found the file somewhere else (TM2420intel) and it friggin worked!! I have been trying to fix this for months!!! Thanks again, what a great forum.

Mastergrader007...