Help with wireless installation - card missing ?

teulk · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:16

Just been around to my sisters to set up a wireless connection on her laptop, which i thought had a wireless card built in.......

Here are the laptop specs

Advent 7096 Laptop
Specification
CPU AMD Mobile Sempron 3000+
BIOS AMI BIOS. Press DEL to enter
Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200
Memory 1GB 200pin DDR-333 SODIMM (2 memory slots. Max 2GB)
Hard Drive 40GB Hitachi 4K40 ATA HTS424040M9AT00
CD Drive DVD±RW
Screen 15.4" widescreen TFT (native resolution 1280x800)
Video Card ATI Radeon Xpress 200M IGP (128mb)
Sound Card Realtek AC'97 audio
Network Card Realtek 8139/810X (onboard)
Marvell Wireless Card (possibly the Libertas 802.11g/b) *
Modem Agere systems AC'97 modem
PC Card None
Ports 4x USB 2.0
1x LAN
1x Modem
1x Headphone
1x Microphone
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x Kensington Lock
Touchpad Synaptics Touchpad
Power Supply Lite-On PA-1700-02
Battery Sole Energy Corp. Either a EM-320L2S (battery life approx 1hr) or a EM-G3302L2 (approx 2hrs)
Dimensions 40 x 355 x 273 (HxWxD in mm)
Weight 2.85kg
Made By ECS 331

* To switch the wireless on/off use the button to the right of the power button.

So i hit the button mentioned and nothing happens, i check the device manager and there is not a wireless card under network adaptors so am i right in thinking there isnt one fitted ?

Am i missing something or is there just simply not a card fitted regardless of the specs above.

teulk · 6 Dec 2008 at 11:10

Any ideas at all ?

Dano · 6 Dec 2008 at 12:35

Open the back panel and take a look.

teulk · 6 Dec 2008 at 13:05

Its a built in card from what i can gather. Ive checked all the slots and theyre empty.

Dano · 6 Dec 2008 at 14:08

Did any of the empty expansion bays have what looked like two ends of an antenna wire inside a plastic sleeve?

teulk · 6 Dec 2008 at 14:14

No, didnt see anything like that

Dano · 6 Dec 2008 at 14:19

Hmmm... If nothing is showing in device manager and nowt happens when you use the Wireless on/off switch I'd be tempted to say it doesn't have one or it's broken.

Is it still under warranty?

AtreuS · 6 Dec 2008 at 14:34

It will probably look some thing like this

http://laptopcentre.ca/intel-wm3b2200bg-internal-wireless-card-80211g-laptops-p-565.html

But if its a newer laptop it may be half the width/pins.

It may be under the keyboard, it is on a lot of laptops.

teulk · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:07

I will check the expansion bays out on the bottom of the laptop. The laptop i think is about 4-5years old. This is the first time that the wireless facility has been tried. The problem is that the original packaging and instructions are no longer available so the the specs for the laptop are what i pulled from the net so thy could be refering to an updated version.

beermonster · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:26

The wifi slot is under the keyboard, press the little tabs at the edge of the keyboard bottom edge one by one and the keyboard will pop out, then there is a silver panel 4 screws it should be under there.

sir_snookie · 6 Dec 2008 at 17:36

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/laptop/7096.htm

Check this out

teulk · 6 Dec 2008 at 18:11

beermonster said:
The wifi slot is under the keyboard, press the little tabs at the edge of the keyboard bottom edge one by one and the keyboard will pop out, then there is a silver panel 4 screws it should be under there.

sir_snookie said:
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/laptop/7096.htm

Check this out

According to this (which i had looked at several times before starting the thread) is a slot for memory is it not ????

beermonster · 7 Dec 2008 at 16:09

wifi is under there as well bud.

teulk · 8 Dec 2008 at 01:54

Hmmmm, im sure its a straight forward proceedure but i can feel dongle coming on