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New 3790 - Problems with wireless card

post #1 of 12
11/10/04 at 9:43pm
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Hi All,

Sitting in front of my brand spanking new 3790 and so far so good except for one thing - the wireless connection.

After installing Inte PROset, nothing is showing up in the control panel.

Device manager shows

Network Adapter
- 1394 Adapter
- Realtek xxxxx Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Other Devices
- ? Network Controller


Card looks to be seated fine and cables are all look ok. Any ideas on what could be wrong???

Thanks.
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post #2 of 12
11/25/04 at 3:21pm
Try rebooting.
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post #3 of 12
11/25/04 at 6:24pm
have u the driver installed? have u been under setting in your window, and update driver?have you the green light on on the right side of your pc? the 5th light from the top.do u hear a sound when u press the hot key?what ur screen say? what do u have on your panel window?
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post #4 of 12
12/2/04 at 5:10pm
update your driver to 8.1.0.28 (on the Intel website, the highest version before the 9 series, which don't seem to work)...if you haven't already. The one that comes with the computer doesn't work all that well.

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post #5 of 12
12/3/04 at 4:34pm
the latest release from intel is the 9.0.1.9
i'm downloading now
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post #6 of 12
12/29/04 at 2:20pm
I also went and installed 9.0.1.9 on my 3790. I find that it works most of the time, but it'll lose the connection or go from 54Mbps to 24Mpbs (i'm sitting 5 feet from the wireless router) and just hang for a minute or two very sporadically.

Is this a known issue with the 9.x drivers that the 8.x drivers would fix?
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post #7 of 12
1/5/05 at 2:29pm
I just received my 3790 yesterday. also having problems with the wireless. will try updating the driver to to 8.1.0.28. thanks for the tip that the 9 series drivers are not working well.
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post #8 of 12
1/6/05 at 1:27am
well I updated the driver but still having problems. it tries to get an address from the network then fails. gonna have to keep tinkering with it.
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post #9 of 12
1/6/05 at 1:31am
strange the edit button does not appear for me when I browse these forums on my 3790 for some reason. I can't edit my posts! yikes I hope I don't type something stupid.
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post #10 of 12
1/6/05 at 12:54pm
I got my 3790 to connect to my wireless hub. now the old dell laptop that we use solely as a spare surfboard won't connect. Basically I think my problem was that I didn't know how to enter the WEP code on Windows XP Pro. It is different enough from Windows 2000 to confuse me. So I think I just entered it wrong. I have my WEP code memorized but it either starts or ends in BD and I always forget which. I may have entered it the wrong way and couldn't figure out how to fix it. Anyway, I called Verizaon DSL and they routed me through the whole agonizing diagnostic procedure and then they bumped me to Linksys for further standard diagnostic procedures with a hard to understand Indian woman on the other end. Still never figured out how to change/enter the WEP code on Windows XP Pro, but the Indian woman had me just reset the hub so it doesn't need a code. I want to add a WEP code again to protect my network but the Indian woman says I need to download the latest firmware from Linksys because I could not talk to my router (forgot username and password).
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post #11 of 12
1/6/05 at 3:16pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by erisalit32
I just received my 3790 yesterday. also having problems with the wireless. will try updating the driver to to 8.1.0.28. thanks for the tip that the 9 series drivers are not working well.
with my 3790 the v9 series drivers solved a few problems... goodbye limited conectivity ;p
but i installed the drivers only, i let xp manage the connections.
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post #12 of 12
1/6/05 at 3:27pm
I may try the 9 series driver. I am tempted to leave well enough alone for a while though, because it is working now. If I experience problems, I will definitely update to the 9 series.
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