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    FW series, can not reinstall smartwi connection utilities vista 64bit ultimate

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by oglop, Dec 24, 2008.

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    every other functions works fine including the hotkeys

    if i do a straight install , it installs fine but after restart , i can't find the program on start menu,

    Already tried the "official" way of installing drivers, i successfully extracted the smartwi install files with the "universal extractor", but the installation is not successful, i got a "feature transfer error" dialog during installation, and setup fails

    my model is sony fw27

    and i'm using this version

    SmartWi™ Connection Utility
    SOAOTH-15754900-64.EXE
    4.4.0.20080627.1647
    11.03 MB

    download page
    http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=VGNFW270J&upd_id=3676&os_id=34

    fw27 drivers for vista 64bit
    http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=VGN-FW270J&region_id=1

    anyone tried reinstalling this utility before on FW series ?

    :edit

    problem solved , i later found that my model didn't have wimax wireless card built in, maybe the smartwi utility is supposed to be used with a wimax
    wireless network card? I found the utility for quickly turn on and off bluetooth or wlan is actually named smart network utility. i found the utility download link in uk vaio support site

    http://www.vaio-link.com/flash/hub_cons.html
     
    oglop, Dec 24, 2008
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