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    v3000z wlan adapter?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by stevee, Jun 30, 2006.

  1. stevee

    stevee Notebook Enthusiast

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    what wireless card is installed with the v3000Z?
    i cant seem to find the right driver
     
    stevee, Jun 30, 2006
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    nvm got it.
     
    stevee, Jun 30, 2006
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    Help me out then, what the hell is it, I install the stupid HP wireless assistant but that's apparently not the underlying drivers. Link me to the v3000z's wireless adapter drivers?
     
    dfruchter, Jul 2, 2006
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Its based on a Broadcom wireless chip. The drivers which ship with the laptop are located in the SWsetup folder. They havent as of now put the V3000Z wifi drivers on the downloads page. But any Broadcom wifi drivers should work fine with the laptop.

    The HP wireless assistant is just junk. Dont know why they even bothered designing it. I uninstalled it along with all other HP software.
     
    miner, Jul 2, 2006
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    Alas, I've tried other Broadcomm wireless drivers and they don't seem to work (I'm on plain vanilla XP pro 32bit). I tried using the v2000's broadcom wireless drivers for instance. Any chance a v3000z'r out there can upload the wireless drivers somewhere? :)

    Dan
     
    dfruchter, Jul 2, 2006
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    I could also use this driver along with most of the other drivers... my recovery partition went corrupt before I could make backups and I need to reinstall all the drivers. I don't particularly wanna pay 60 bucks for the recovery cds, not to mention they don't even have them yet.
     
    mastapsi, Jul 3, 2006
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    mastapsi, Jul 3, 2006
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    yes, what mastapi points to is what i finally got to work.

    anyone having trouble getting QP to work?. i have the cd and the QPW folder..the unpartitioned 1024 MB space at the end of my HD, and when i boot QP (powered off) i get the blue screen.

    im going to mess around with it some more.
     
    stevee, Jul 4, 2006
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