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wireless expresscard not detected
Hi, I have tried several different troubleshooting methods to get Vista to
detect a Belkin ExpressCard wireless adapter, but I never see the "New Hardware Found" message, nor do I ever see it in Device Manager. I followed Belkin's installation instructions and also found that their Network Utility program does not appear on the desktop, nor do I see anything in the system tray (yet the install itself seems to go well, including the part where it prompts to insert the card, after which the install continues, without error). I should note that getting the external expresscard came about because the wireless adapter installed in the laptop (HP Pavillion tx 1305) failed and as with the Belkin card, I have been unable to get it re-detected. Anyone know why Vista is behaving this way? I tried several different versions of drivers, flashing the BIOS, uninstalling and reinstalling the nForce Network controller (thinking it was maybe that acting as the "bridge" with wireless). The only time that the wireless adapter ("internal" one) was detected was after I temporarily partitioned off part of the drive and installed XP Pro SP2, but even then it "disappeared" again after a subsequent reboot. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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wireless expresscard not detected
You might try looking in the Bios to see if there's an option to turn off /
disable the internal device "Randy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have tried several different troubleshooting methods to get Vista to detect a Belkin ExpressCard wireless adapter, but I never see the "New Hardware Found" message, nor do I ever see it in Device Manager. I followed Belkin's installation instructions and also found that their Network Utility program does not appear on the desktop, nor do I see anything in the system tray (yet the install itself seems to go well, including the part where it prompts to insert the card, after which the install continues, without error). I should note that getting the external expresscard came about because the wireless adapter installed in the laptop (HP Pavillion tx 1305) failed and as with the Belkin card, I have been unable to get it re-detected. Anyone know why Vista is behaving this way? I tried several different versions of drivers, flashing the BIOS, uninstalling and reinstalling the nForce Network controller (thinking it was maybe that acting as the "bridge" with wireless). The only time that the wireless adapter ("internal" one) was detected was after I temporarily partitioned off part of the drive and installed XP Pro SP2, but even then it "disappeared" again after a subsequent reboot. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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wireless expresscard not detected
Hi DL, thanks for your reply. Good question: I did check in the BIOS and on
this particular laptop there is an option to disable/enable the "Internal Network adapter" (buried under the "Security" menu in the BIOS), which I did have to enable, but that didn't fix it. I haven't ruled out hardware (i.e. something on the motherboard) as possibly being faulty, but the fact that it did detect the built-in wireless adapter at one point after I installed XP Pro leads me to believe this is something software-related. I also checked Services, but to be honest, I wasn't really sure which ones might apply (if at all) to wireless (I did make sure the "Network Connections" service was started). "DL" wrote: You might try looking in the Bios to see if there's an option to turn off / disable the internal device "Randy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have tried several different troubleshooting methods to get Vista to detect a Belkin ExpressCard wireless adapter, but I never see the "New Hardware Found" message, nor do I ever see it in Device Manager. I followed Belkin's installation instructions and also found that their Network Utility program does not appear on the desktop, nor do I see anything in the system tray (yet the install itself seems to go well, including the part where it prompts to insert the card, after which the install continues, without error). I should note that getting the external expresscard came about because the wireless adapter installed in the laptop (HP Pavillion tx 1305) failed and as with the Belkin card, I have been unable to get it re-detected. Anyone know why Vista is behaving this way? I tried several different versions of drivers, flashing the BIOS, uninstalling and reinstalling the nForce Network controller (thinking it was maybe that acting as the "bridge" with wireless). The only time that the wireless adapter ("internal" one) was detected was after I temporarily partitioned off part of the drive and installed XP Pro SP2, but even then it "disappeared" again after a subsequent reboot. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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wireless expresscard not detected
I've been having the same problem with the Belkin N1 ExpressCard on my HP DV6285. Only one difference - while installing the driver, it doesn't detect the card, but eventually says "insert now and click OK", at which point it restarts the machine to complete the installation. Again, the utility does not appear to install. One important thing to note, though, is that I've managed to get the card up and running _on_the_same_machine_ under Ubuntu Linux (using the windows drivers). This proves that the BIOS and the hardware aren't to blame. So it must be something within Vista. -- RobTsintas |