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    Swapped wireless card, no bluetooth

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by inuyasha555, Jan 13, 2014.

  1. inuyasha555

    inuyasha555 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Alienware 17 came with some stupid Broadcom wireless card which kept dropping the signal so I swapped it with an Atheros AR9285 from my old laptop (ASUS G73JW) and all those problems went away. The problem now is no matter what I try, bluetooth won't work.

    I've downloaded whatever drivers I could find but they don't do anything. I went to my old laptops drivers and installed the bluetooth driver for that and still nothing. Searching for bluetooth brings up results but clicking on them does nothing.

    I'm getting seriously annoyed as this should just work. What can I do to fix this?
     
    inuyasha555, Jan 13, 2014
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  2. MogRules

    MogRules Notebook Deity

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    Are you sure your Atheros card has integrated bluetooth and it wasn't another bluetooth card in the system?
     
    MogRules, Jan 14, 2014
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    What is appearing under network devices?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jan 14, 2014
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    inuyasha555 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The bluetooth driver for my old laptop is listed as " Azurewave BlueTooth driver". Azurewave is listed on a sticker on the back of the wireless card so I'm pretty sure it does yes. I'll go check on my old laptop and see.

    Network Adapters: http://puu.sh/6kZAN.png

    EDIT: Maybe it doesn't have bluetooth... the other two cards I have say bluetooth on the back but this one doesn't.
     
    inuyasha555, Jan 14, 2014
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  5. Meaker@Sager

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    Yep, no bluetooth, I would pick up a killer 1202 or an intel 7260AC.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 14, 2014
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