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    AW 17 wireless adapter not installing

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by batfuse, Feb 14, 2015.

  1. batfuse

    batfuse Notebook Guru

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    Hello All,
    Decided to reformat my aw17 today. However, I have been having issues getting the broadcom 4352 wireless BT driver to install. I used the driver on the dell support website initially. Then used the one that came with the driver/resource disk. Got the same result, where a pop up displays "activate bluetooth using wireless adapter." I have tried multiple other 4352 drivers I could find with no success. I read a forum here on NBR suggesting to use the lenovo 4352 wireless drivers as they are up to date but still no success.

    My wireless adapter displays as "network controller" in device manager...obviously since no driver has been installed. I have gone into bios to ensure that wireless is enabled. I even removed and re-seated the wireless card.

    I initially reformatted my machine 10 months ago after i originally purchased it and placing an SSD but do not recall having this issue.

    After hours of searching I regret reformatting now that I have this issue.

    Has anyone else had similar problem installing the broadcom 4352 wireless BT driver? OS is Windows 8.1
     
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    Got it working again. Forgot that I needed to install Killer Suite that includes BT and wireless drivers. I feel so dumb...that resource disk screwed me up.
     
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