I cannot get the wireless to work.

HELP HELP HELP!!!!
Can someone please try and help me out before I throw my AAO out of the window :-(
I just installed VISTA BUSINESS onto the machine and I cannot get the wireless to work.
I downloaded the correct drivers and the Atheros Wireless hardware is showing as working in the device manager but my wireless network is not showing available.
Also, in the device manager is something called 'Realtek family Ethernet' or something. This is showing as not working and I cannot seem to get the drivers from anywhere. I had Windows XP loaded before and that worked fine.
Hope someone can help.
Many thanks
GArry

 

Why two topics?? viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7202&p=47157#p47157

 

i tried many things on this site and couldn't get it to work either.

then i installed two drivers from this file:

http://rapidshare.com/files/144559297/Acer_ONE.exe.html

i unchecked all the boxes, then selected only the two network drivers: Realtek driver and Atheros driver.

this works!

 

Hmmm... I installed Vista earlier on today.
I used Windows XP driver from Acer website and now I'm on the web wirelessly..

 

Hmmmmm, exactly. Well I will give the other drivers a whirl, if no joy I'm gonna back to another Linux distro..... :roll:

 

Hate to ask such a basic question but is the wireless switch on? Do you see the wireless adapter in device manager?

I had something similar to this happen twice before and unplugging the computer from power and pulling the battery off fixed it.

 

Hi, Ive just put vista on my acer one and am having the same problem... the link above doesnt work...?? Please help...

 

Magik... Sorted now...

 

All sorted now, many thanks

 

I followed the recom from t3xx.. http://rapidshare.com/files/144559297/Acer_ONE.exe.html and it worked, but after a SP1 upgrade it stopped and its not listed in the device manager, but the Lan seems aok now. No more WiFi? Tips

 

Wireless works on Vista it is just un realiable, at times it hangs and the orange light stays steady with full reception, but the web pages wont load.

 

Hello,try this,open CMD then type in line

netsh wlan add filter your type of network( adhoc or infrastructure),see this info on your router, enter
this work fine with my WRT-54GL.

 

Mine was fine until I Updated... After doing the updates only the local network will work but internet was gone... I read somewhere in this forum to use WEP Encryption insted of WAP and that did the trick for me... Also Im using the Vista driver ( xxxx .156 instead of 224 )from Atheros cz, not sure if this mattered cos I didnt try it yet on the xp one...

 

http://www.atheros.cz/download.php?atheros=AR5007EG&system=3

I've just installed the drivers from the above link although the xp drivers worked i found that i had to power off/on daily as my wifi would vanish from device manager, hope it helps someone else

 

Yup I can confirm, this worked for me as well !!!

Craig