Aspire 5332 & WiFi Link 5100 card problem

Hi

I searched most of the pages here but couldnt find any details.

I have Acer Aspire 5332.
OS - Win-7 Ultimate (64bit).
WiFi card - Atheros AR5B93 (2.4HGz)
This card is working ok but due to other 2.4GHz disturbances this keeps loosing signal so I wanted to upgrade to a better one - 5GHz.
As per Acer website I found there were following cards and drivers available to download, so I guessed one of those should work on mine Aspire 5332.
The list is -
Atheros XB63, XB91, HB93
Realtek 8191se
Brdcom bcm4312#5
Intel EP5150#5, 5100#5, 5300#5, 5150#5, 5350#5

All this marked #5, as per their specs it works on 5GHz.
I borrowed one to try from my friend, model 5100 (Intel) but it gives me "Error Code 10". It does install the latest drivers but unable to initialise?
What should I do?

Apart from all this, I tried removing win7 64bit and tried 32bit, but same problem. Tried installing drivers from Acer website (a lower ver driver), but still the same problem.

Also I put the Ubuntu ver 10.10 on it and that took the card but no matter what I do, win-7 (32 or 64) will not like it and gives that error code 10?

Help please.

Thanks

 

What was the brand of the notebook that the 5100 was taken from?

 

My friend said it was from HP.
I guess what you are going to say that that 5100, as it was from HP, kind of proprietry thing from HP machine, it would not work...??
And I would think it would be bcos of BIOS? Not sure though...
But then installing Ubuntu as a dual boot alongside Win-7, Ubuntu would take the card and it would work on 5GHz and 2.4 for as well, just doesnt like Windows OS...

Is there any registry edit or anything I could do then?
thanks

 

It's something that happens with Lenovo (see this recent thread) but I haven;t heard of this happening to HP notebooks.
As you said it's not exactly whitelisting.

 

@downloads
Yes my friend it seems to be exactly similar issue.
Now we dont know what to do.
Couple of thoughts are -
If the BIOS is designed to use only certain WiFi cards (like what Thinkpads do), then it could be that only MS OS would be barred (as its paid OS) but to keep while using Linux as its open source, the bios is programmed to keep it OPEN for Linux?
Bcos the hardware is hardware, either Linux or MS, certain voltages need to go at certain pin to work, thats why these things are so miniature and price effective that they cant put any extra stuff, unnecessarily...

Just the thoughts, but I am still looking for the answer.
Thanks