Hi I have an Aspire 5749, as I live in Spain it was in Spanish so my friend "Cracked" it and reinstalled everything including Windows 7 premium in English, my problem is I no longer have a wireless driver and have to use an ugly "Dongle" ariel, how do I download a new driver? I have tried downloading from the Acer support site but the driver dose'nt show up in Device manager on my computer! what am I doing wrong? please help me it is doing my head in.
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Hi I have an Aspire 5749, as I live in Spain it was in Spanish so my friend "Cracked" it and reinstalled everything including Windows 7 premium in English, my problem is I no longer have a wireless driver and have to use an ugly "Dongle" ariel, how do I download a new driver? I have tried downloading from the Acer support site but the driver dose'nt show up in Device manager on my computer! what am I doing wrong? please help me it is doing my head in.

Hi I have an Aspire 5749, as I live in Spain it was in Spanish so my friend "Cracked" it and reinstalled everything including Windows 7 premium in English, my problem is I no longer have a wireless driver and have to use an ugly "Dongle" ariel, how do I download a new driver? I have tried downloading from the Acer support site but the driver dose'nt show up in Device manager on my computer! what am I doing wrong? please help me it is doing my head in.
Have you tried hooking up to the net with a cable, then run Windows update and letting it picking up the appropriate wireless for you?
cheers ...
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