Wireless not working on Acer Aspire 5745PH

[Tweezy]

Hello,
My wireless adapter isn't working. I've got a dual boot of Linux (Pinguy) and the wireless works fine - detected by Additional Downloads. So much for Linux not having driver support!

Anyway, I am currently using Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on my laptop. When I check the Device Manager it states it can't find a driver for "Network Controller". I went to look at the PCI Hardware IDs but I still can't really find anything. I have also checked the acer website for driver downloads - NONE of them work...

Hardware ID's

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4358&SUBSYS_E040105B&REV_00

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4358&SUBSYS_E040105B

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4358&CC_028000

PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4358&CC_0280

If anyone could please help me with this, then please do try. This shouldn't be so difficult...

 

[Tweezy]

Sorry, PG. not PH

 

[Tweezy]

Can somebody please help me with this?

 

[Brett928S2]

specs ?

All the best Brett

 

[jarotech]

You have the Broadcom 802.11n WLAN module, did you try the Broadcom drivers, version 5.100.235.19.

 

[Tweezy]

I actually managed to fix this. I booted up on my linux partition, saved a system information document at a .html and looked through until I found my wireless driver, got everything I needed and did a quick google search. Managed to find a lenovo driver which worked!

Thank you all though

 

[giolla_chriost]

I actually managed to fix this. I booted up on my linux partition, saved a system information document at a .html and looked through until I found my wireless driver, got everything I needed and did a quick google search. Managed to find a lenovo driver which worked!

Thank you all though

Can you please share the lenovo driver that you found to get it working? I've run into the same problem

 

[Tweezy]

Of course! I saved the driver in my dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0whw4y7i1vot8u/Acer5745PG%20Wireless.exe