Acers and Wifi Connections 1

[vacunita]

Recently, I've been getting Acer laptops running Vista that will not connect to any Wireless network. A couple of things I did to alleviate the problem may work for you:

1. Kill off Acer's Enet Management. Its a poor excuse for a wireless manager. Windows's built-in manager is better.

2. Most of the time when it connects it will say the connection is Taking longer than normal, and then tell you there was an incorrect connection. Just leave it and it will eventually connect correctly. Longest its taken in most cases is 5 minutes

3. If you don't want to wait, buy a USB Wifi card, and all your problems will go away. For whatever reason these new Laptop Wifi cards are utter trash. A standard USB Wifi card from Belkin for instance will work perfectly fine.

4. Get id of Vista and upgrade to Windows 7 if at all possible.

This is more of an issue with the Acer Wifi card than Windows, but still getting rid of Vista is always a good thing.


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Phil AKA Vacunita
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[kjv1611]

Another thing would be to find out the wireless chipset, and find an alternative driver. It may be that Acer is using some standard wifi adapter in those notebooks, and you can find the "non acer" driver for that adapter, and fix all your issues without any other changes/methods.

Doing away with Acer's (and any other OEM for that matter) jumk extra software is usually the best bet regardless. A clean install of the OS for that machine is the best bet 99% of the time.

 

[vacunita]

Unfortunately for these Acer's, the wireless Adapter is actually Acer's own. It may be a disguised Intel adapter or something, but device manager picked it up as Acer Wireless Adpater. Which means the drivers are still Acer's drivers.



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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

Behind the Web, Tips and Tricks for Web Development.

http://behindtheweb.blogspot.com/

 

[kjv1611]

Gotcha. I guess the only way to be sure would be to pull the wireless adapter, write down any codes, numbers, etc on it, and search that way. You could also try looking at the hardware ID numbers - PCN or PCI or whatever they are, I always forget the exact nomenclature there.

 

[BadBigBen]

Hardware ID = VEN & DEV numbers...

VEN = Vendor
DEV = Device...

jfyi there kjv1611


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[kjv1611]

Thanks. I'll remember that for now - until I forget again.