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    Acer Aspire 5920G wireless problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Renate, Jul 9, 2009.

  1. Renate

    Renate Newbie

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    Hi,
    I have an Acer Aspire 5920G, with the Intel 3945AGB wireless card. I've had issues with the wireless for some time, where it would suddenly lose connectivity and I would have to reboot for it to find any wireless networks. Yesterday, however, it lost connectivity again, and now is unable to connect even after several reboots.

    The wifi switch is on and lights up. Acer eNet manager tells me there are no wireless networks, whereas Windows Vista's network manager tells me that I'm either a) Connected to my wireless network but with a limited connection or b) Not connected at all, but wireless networks (including my own) are available. It always fails to connect. My wireless router is a Dlink DIR-615.

    I've tried inputting the WEP key again, no results. I've tried rolling back the wireless device driver (to 11.1.0.86), no results.

    My husband has an identical laptop, with an identical setup, and everything works just fine for his laptop.

    I did nothing out of the ordinary last night when this happened - no settings were changed, etc. The only thing I did do that I don't do every day, was that I ran the disk cleanup manager, and it cleaned out a few temp files, but I thought that this was a harmless operation...

    Any ideas? I'm at my wits end here, and would rather not have to call the heavily overpriced Acer support line...
     
    Renate, Jul 9, 2009
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  2. triturbo

    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    Try with the latest drivers from Intel's site and avoid using eNet manager. I found that with the Vista's build-in manager my connection is much stable :)
     
    triturbo, Jul 9, 2009
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  3. chriscatt

    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, agreed, I've always disabled Acer's own e-Net from loading at startup...
    Chris
     
    chriscatt, Jul 10, 2009
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  4. e30sep11

    e30sep11 Notebook Guru

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    Just update to latest driver i got the same problem before.
     
    e30sep11, Jul 10, 2009
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