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    Wifi Problems

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by JohnnyT, Jun 7, 2007.

  1. JohnnyT

    JohnnyT Notebook Guru

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    I recently purchased an Aspire 5610z and just did a reformat with Visa Home Premium. I have been having lots of trouble with the wifi, the light on the front does not turn on and when hit the switch it says no wireless device. The bottom of the laptop says it has an Atheros AR5BXB63 and when I installed the drivers vista found it as Atheros AR5007EG and says the driver is working correctly. No matter what I do it doesn’t seem to work and it always wants me to turn on the device, but the switch on the front doesn't do anything and neither does the Bluetooth switch. If you know of anything I can do that would be great or maybe some info on drivers that work or just anything. Any help would be great thanks!
     
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  2. KiD

    KiD Notebook Enthusiast

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    Did you try contacting Acer Support?
     
    KiD, Jun 7, 2007
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  3. JohnnyT

    JohnnyT Notebook Guru

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    If I wanted to talk to Acer for 10 hours instead of asking anyone on here and be able to spend 10 hours doing other things, then I would have.

    Thank you for the WONDERFUL advice.
     
    JohnnyT, Jun 7, 2007
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  4. Yellow11

    Yellow11 Notebook Consultant

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    Not having Vista or knowing what kind of power management software you have I'll throw this out.

    Can you turn on the wirless card from your power management utility? If so that would point to a hardware problem involving the panel switches. The fact that the Bluetooth switch doesn't work either points to this too. It might be something as simple as the cable for the switches not seated in the connector properly.

    It sounds like you'll have to deal with Acer service, this is probably a hardware problem. How long ago did you buy it? If it was recent maybe the store will just replace it with a new one. Acer might do that as well.

    Just my two shillings..
     
    Yellow11, Jun 7, 2007
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  5. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    have you got the empowering tech on your pc ?
    check in the settings and see if you have the wifi switched off.

    if you have done that.sorry don't have a clue :(
     
    hoggie, Jun 7, 2007
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    AlexMagik Notebook Consultant

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    for use the 2 button in front you should have installed the acer launch manager for vista and get it runs.
     
    AlexMagik, Jun 7, 2007
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  7. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    i just use the broadcom wireless utilty.after i uninstaled empowering tech and loads of wifi junk.now my connection never drops its great.i reassigned the e key for the broadcom utilty. :)
     
    hoggie, Jun 8, 2007
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