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    Extensa 5420 wifi not working (help!)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ECas123, Dec 26, 2008.

  1. ECas123

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    Alright this thing is driving me up a freaking wall...I have an Acer Extensa 5420 and it came with Windows Vista (no recovery discs just 2 partitions with one recovery) which I wiped and installed Ubuntu onto. I went to install XP and the wireless card doesn't work. I downloaded the driver from Acer's own site and it says that the card is ejected/not installed. I have no idea what to do and all acer is telling me to do is to redownload the same drivers and try again. Someone, help! Please.
     
    ECas123, Dec 26, 2008
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    Anyone? I really want to get this fixed.
     
    ECas123, Dec 26, 2008
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    That's odd. You might try to reconnect the card - pull it out from the mini-PCI slot then insert it again..

    You tried the drivers from the link below(Acer Euro site)?
    Wireless Atheros
    Wireless Broadcom
     
    ATG, Dec 27, 2008
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    Yeah tried those. Neither worked.
     
    ECas123, Dec 27, 2008
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