Clevo D400EV wireless problem

Hello folks, hopefully somebody can lend me a hand with this issue that I'm trying to fix on this laptop that I got super cheap. This is a Clevo D470EV that I'm trying to get the wireless LAN working properly on. Unfortunately it does not want to co-operate for some reason that I haven't been able to figure out yet. The device shows up in the device manager under the network adapters but it will not show any wireless networks in range. I've tried the drivers off Clevo's site but they haven't helped the matter. This is for Windows XP Pro SP3 btw. I've also tried temporarily running my Wireless N (currently set to B/G/N) network as a Wireless B/G and turning off WPA and it still won't spot it. I know that the wifi network is fine as my Droid Incredible, Sony Vaio laptop & Sony PSP all connect to it just fine.

I do know that wireless was working previous to myself receiving it as I had used it before the drive was completely wiped & I reinstalled Windows XP on it.

edit I just realized that I put down a D400EV instead of a D470EV which could cause confusion. Fixed it now

 

might be a silly question but as its a clevo have you tried the Fn + F11 keys.
the amount of times people have forgot to use this to turn it on

 

I hadn't given that a try since my laptop has a switch on the front to turn wireless on & off and it's currently set to on. I did give it a shot though on some off chance that I did need to hit that key combination to get wireless working and there was no change unfortunately.

 

never heard of that model so didnt know it had a switch. soz, no idea what else to suggest.

 

Thanks for the try at least. I know that the card works, I just have to find the correct driver. I booted into an Ubunutu LiveCD and it was able to load the drivers for the wifi card and showed all of the wireless network in range correctly. It showed that it loaded the drivers for an Acer WarpLink 802.11b USB adapter. I've tried some drivers that came up in searches from reliable sites (after virus scanning them) and still nothing. I may just give it a pass and hook in an 802.11n PCMCIA card or USB stick. But for now I'll keep trying.

 

You say it worked fine in Ubuntu with a livecd- have you tried a fresh operating system reload for the harddrive? There might be a software or driver incompatibility that's causing the problems, since it's working under a linux livecd.

 

I've tried it under a fresh install without much luck unfortunately. I just reloaded the original Windows XP disc that was sold with the laptop (orig owner kept all of the original CDs) and then loaded the CD that was supposed to have the wireless drivers that originally came with the laptop. There seems to be a failure in the installation of the drivers somewhere though since after installing the drivers the device still shows as an unrecognized USB device. I noticed that after the driver setup program finishes a process called CardInst.exe stays running in the task manager and has to be force closed if I want to shut down/reboot the laptop.