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    Gateway W350A Loses Wireless Connection

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by JAPerson34, Aug 21, 2009.

  1. JAPerson34

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    I have 2 Gateway W350A Laptop commuters. They were bought brand new about a year and a half apart. The older one works fine. The newer one will lose wireless connection about 30-60 minutes after bootup. I have had the 2 side by side comparing setting and I don't see where they differ. They are both have Vista Home Premium as their OS. I am using a Linksys WRT54G router.

    Any ideas on what I should check, test, update, change, ect?
     
    JAPerson34, Aug 21, 2009
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    Try uninstalling and deleting the driver in the non-working one then run driver sweeper to completely remove all traces of it. After that download and reinstall the wireless driver and see if that will help.

    Sounds like either it or another driver is interfering with it during boot.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Aug 22, 2009
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    In Device Manager, the following is listed under Network Adapters:

    MAC Bridge Miniport
    Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC
    Realtek RTL8187S Wireless LAN PCIE Network Adapter #2

    Driver name for the wireless adapter is RTL8187Se.sys
    Version 6.1053

    Windows could not locate an updated version, but I may have here.

    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=21&PFid=40&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true

    RTL8187SE
    Ver 6.9067

    Does this all look correct before I uninstall the old version and attempt to install the newer version which I have downloaded already?
     
    JAPerson34, Sep 5, 2009
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