PC Peripherals help: wireless doesn't work

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i formatted my laptop a month ago and the wireless option from "Network Connections" disappeared. :( there is a button for my wireless on my acer extensa 6600 but it stopped working after format. :huh: does anyone know what happened to it :S
 

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how did you reinstall the os, is it from a win xp cd or from the recovery disks. seems like the driver is not installed. check the device manager
 
go to the hardware profiles, locate your wireless device and then right click and update driver. (leave the driver cd in the drive ofcourse)
 
download it from the Acer support site na :)

edit: I looked at the Acer support site and seems the Extensa 6600 series uses one of the following three wireless chipsets

Driver links:

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802abg(intel).zip

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802bg(ambit).zip

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802bg(atheros).zip

Now instead of d/oing a hit & trial with all three drivers, you could also look at the device manager to determine your wireless card chipset and downlaod the appropriate one from the three listed above
 
superczar said:
download it from the Acer support site na :)

edit: I looked at the Acer support site and seems the Extensa 6600 series uses one of the following three wireless chipsets

Driver links:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802abg(intel).zip
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802bg(ambit).zip
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/extensa_6600/driver/802bg(atheros).zip

Now instead of d/oing a hit & trial with all three drivers, you could also look at the device manager to determine your wireless card chipset and downlaod the appropriate one from the three listed above
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hey :)
thanks alot :hap5: im on device manager now :eek:hyeah: what to do now? :( im a noob when it comes to all this :S
thanks a lot :D reps for you :clap:
 
superczar must be busy with some thing else... so

right click on the network controller under other devices the one besides the yellow '?'

and select update driver and then 'install from a specific location'. (your downloaded file)
 
This means your system is using the Wireless configuration utility installed by the Acer driver package...

Look around under "All Programs" to find the Acer wireless config utility to set it up
 
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