Where da WLAN at?!

Posted this on the HP support site but no responses, so we'll check here.

Put a new hard drive in my Entertainment Notebook dv6700, got XP loaded in, but my 1394 connection won't find my home network to get an Internet connection. Nor will it connect when it's hard wired with an Ethernet to my router.

It shows that the 1394 Net Adapter is enable and working, the driver is the best one available, it shows it as being connected at 400Mbps (although it shows no sent/receive activity). In the support tab, no TCP/IP info is available and the details and repair buttons are grayed out. When I try to repair from the network connections area, it tell me "failed to query TCP/IP."

The wireless switch on the front is on and I get an orange light...although when I switch it off, I still have an orange light.

Additional info...I just installed HP Wireless Assistant. It says the WLAN is disabled, and to enable it in the device manager. I go to device manager and the 1394 Net Adapter is enabled and shows as working properly. So why isn't wireless assistant or the machine seeing the WLAN as enabled?

 

Because the motherboard is failing: one of the possible symptoms is missing wlan. Basically the wlan card is physically disconnected from rest of the computer, so the computer does not know if it even exists anymore.

What are you connecting with the firewire (1394)? Usually a video camera or hard drive. I've heard it should be technically possible to connect two computers with a wire but I haven't ever seen that happen. It is totally different thing than your wlan, you use it to connect external devices just like USB

Ethernet should still work. I don't have any good idea right now why it wouldn't work.

 

As KLF said, missing LAN is a symptom of motherboard problems, especially those plagued by Nvidia chipsets and gpu's, as my Compaq F500 was. Try checking this out: https://roscomps3.securesites.net/www.nvidiasettlement.com/checkmodels.php

 

You're the one who's on the right track Indrek. I have no idea why I was thinking 1394 had anything to do with it...I quit drinking years ago. Under Network Devices, all I have under that is 1394 net adapter, which is operating, so I guess that's what I was thinking.

But I have plenty of yellow question marks of things with no drivers. I suppose replacing the hard drive zapped out all of these so they need a reinstall. Included in this list are 3 base system devices, ethernet controller, webcam, network controller, 2 PCI devices, SM Bus controller, Unknown device, and Video Controller. None of these can find drivers aboard so I'll have to find them elsewhere. Unfortunately HP's support site of drivers for this model is sparse at best...so I'm not sure where the fastest, best place to find all these would be.

 

Drivers here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...x-dv95xx-dv99xx-compaq-v65xx-v69xx-intel.html

 

Very cool. My OS though is XP. You think these will work even though they all say for Vista/Windows 7?

 

Unfortunately, no. <s>Finding XP drivers will be a challenge at this juncture. Likely you won't find them all since the DV6500-6700s were sold with Vista.</s>

Edit: Here's a XP driver pack for dv9500 (which will work with dv6500+) by one of our posters here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6R56CI5E

Instructions: http://www.lancelhoff.com/how-to-install-windows-xp-on-a-hp-dv6500-series-laptop/

 

Wow, I don't have many heroes but 2.0 is one of them. That is everything I needed. Got the drivers, got them installed, and now my HP is running XP and everything on it is working!