WiFi drivers - Packard Bell Butterfly

Audigex

Audigex

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Hey guys

A friend's brought a laptop to me because he can't get the WiFi working. They don't have the recovery disks, so he'd tried putting an old copy of vista on it rather than the win7 it came with and the WiFi stopped working. I've put windows 7 back on but windows can't find the WiFi drivers.

I've tried installing the chipset and LAN drivers off the manufacturer's website but to no avail - and I can't tell what specific device it is so I can't download any drivers.

So, does anyone have any ways to find what device it is? Or even happen to know this one? If not, is there a list of manufacturers? I'll just try different ones until I hit a winner.

Thanks
 
xb8browney said:
I'd pop the bottom of the laptop off to see what model is printed on the wifi card.
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For some reason that hadn't occurred to me, but I can't get to the WiFi card without some major surgery so this is a backup option atm.

Idleman said:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

You could try running this, it will tell you everything that is on the laptop.
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Thanks, I'll take a look

Edit: Doesn't seem to have come up with anything useful: here are the communications and "other devices" sections, nothing else seems to at all relate.

Communications new – connection speed & status

↑ Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.1.83 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.1.254
Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.254
Physical Address: 00:1E:33:24:94:1E
Connection Speed: 1 Gbps
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

Networking Dns Server: 192.168.1.254

Other devices:

Microsoft AC Adapter
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
Microsoft Composite Battery
HD Video WebCam
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (8x)
Generic volume shadow copy

It also tells me the mainboard info:
Packard Bell EN Butterfly m PSMBOU-1234567
Which I can't find any further information from.
 
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