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First of all, I would like to make a small remark about the Acer Wi-Fi drivers. These manufacturers produced a lot of things. And to bring his offspring to mind, he was not enough. I had to spend a lot of time just to dig on the Internet exactly the kind of firewood that would make this beast work ... There are no words, as always, only emotions.
I had to actually download everything and install it. But no matter how much I bet, they didn't work. I downloaded the official assemblies of all drivers for the Acer Aspire 5750ZG model, but they all worked clumsily. Some nonsense was written like: some file cannot be copied to C:/Windows/TEMP/temp ... and something else. Nerves were strained like an arrow, but a surprise came to the rescue. I decided to look for drivers specifically for the Atheros (Qualcomm) WiFi device. And lo and behold, with their manual installation - they EARNED. Mega Hurray!
Please pay attention. These drivers are not for a specific laptop, but for devices that are installed on Acer and even Sucks-Lenovo laptops kitay sovo. Therefore, they should (their mother...) work on your laptop!
HOW TO INSTALL these drivers?
Everything is simple. See images:
First, find your computer in the Start menu. Next, right-click on Computer and then Manage.
You will have a window. Find Device Manager there (LEFT!). Then find the devices Network adapters, where there is an icon with a QUESTION. You may have an unknown Wifi device or something. In general, look for where there are Wifi letters or a network adapter. I already tried to put firewood, so it already worked for me and designated itself EVEN as Wifi ...
Right click on this device. Then Update driver.
After DOWNLOAD the archive, which is located BELOW. Unpack it and specify the path where its files are located:
All. This thing is working now.
You can use them for the following devices:
Supported Atheros (Qualcomm) chips:
AR5008 AR5008WB-EG AR5008X AR5009 AR5B116 AR5B125 AR5B91 AR5B92 AR1111 AR1111 WB-EG AR2427 AR5002G AR5002X AR5004G AR5004X AR5005G
AR5006 AR5006EG AR5B93 AR5B95 AR5B97 AR5BMD222 AR5BMD225 AR5BWB222 AR5BWB225 AR9002WB AR9002WB-1NG AR9002WB-2NG AR9227
AR5006EX AR5006EXS AR5006G AR5006GS AR5006X AR5006XS AR5007 AR5007EG AR5007G AR9462 AR946x AR9485 AR9485WB-EG AR956x AR9580 AR9280
AR9283, AR9285, AR9287, AR928X, AR9380, AR9382, AR938x
Supported devices:
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g WiFi Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5006 802.11a/b/g"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5002G"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5002X"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5004G"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5004X"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5005GS"
"D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G630 Wireless Cardbus Adapter(rev.D)"
"D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510 Wireless PCI Adapter(rev.B)"
"D-Link AirXpert DWL-AG650 Wireless Cardbus Adapter"
"Gigabyte GN-WIAG/GN-WPEAG (mini) PCI"
"Gigabyte GN-WP01GT (mini) PCI WLAN Card"
"Gigabyte GN-WI01GT (mini) PCI-E"
"Gigabyte GN-WI07HT (mini) PCI-E"
"Gigabyte GN-WS50G (mini) PCI-E"
"Gigabyte GN-WS53HN Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5007 802.11b/g"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n"
"TP-LINK 300Mbps Wireless N Adapter"
"TP-LINK 150Mbps Wireless N Adapter"
"VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe"
"Option GTM67x PCIe"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR1111"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR1111 WB-EG"
"Gigabyte GN-WI06N (mini) PCI Express"
"Gigabyte GN-WM02N Express"
"Gigaset PC Card 108"
"Speedport Gigaset 54 Mbps"
"Gigaset PC Card 300"
"Gigabyte GN-WM01GT Cardbus"
"Gigabyte GN-WIAH (mini) PCI"
"Gigabyte GN-WI01HT (mini) PCI"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9382 802.11a/g/n"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9380 802.11a/g/n"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n"
"NETGEAR WPN311 RangeMax(TM) Wireless PCI Adapter"
"D-Link AirPremier DWL-AG530 Wireless PCI Adapter"
"D-Link Wireless 108G DWA-520 Desktop Adapter"
"D-Link Wireless 108G DWA-620 Notebook Adapter"
"D-Link WNA-2330 Notebook Adapter"
"D-Link WNA-1330 Notebook Adapter"
"D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G650 Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB225"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5BMD225"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222"
"11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter II"
"11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter III"
"11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9283"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9287"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9227"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5B116"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR946x"
"D-Link AirPremier DWL-G680 Wireless Cardbus Adapter"
"D-Link AirPremier DWL-G550 Wireless PCI Adapter"
"D-Link AirPremier AG DWL-AG660 Wireless Cardbus Adapter"
"D-Link AirPremier AG DWL-AG530 Wireless PCI Adapter"
"I-O DATA WHG-AGDN/CB Wireless LAN Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9002WB-2NG"
"Qualcomm Atheros Osprey Simulation"
"Qualcomm Atheros"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5005G"
"Gigabyte GN-WLMA102 Cardbus"
Gigabyte GN-WMAG Cardbus
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5006GS"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5006XS"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR5006G"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 802.11b/g/n"
"D-Link AirPremier DWL-AG660 Wireless Cardbus Adapter"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR1111"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9580"
"Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG"
It's no secret that all the necessary drivers for a computer can be downloaded on the Internet. But what if the drivers for network adapters are not installed on a freshly installed Windows. To solve this problem, an offline network device driver pack comes to the rescue, which can be downloaded to a USB flash drive and installed in a few clicks manually or automatically.
Driver packs for network cards and Wi-Fi adapters are presented in 3 formats - zip, exe, 7z.
- ZIP- no archiver is required to unpack files. Unzipping files is handled by the Windows system itself. You can unzip a separate folder if you know the manufacturer of the drivers.
- 7Z- here, to unpack the files, an archiver program is required, for example 7z or Winrar. You can also unzip a separate folder if you know the manufacturer of the drivers.
- SFX archive (EXE)- such an archive can be unpacked on any computer, even in the absence of an archiver program, but a separate folder cannot be unpacked here.
Driver pack for network cards (LAN) with manual installation
Downloads:
Driver pack for wireless Wi-Fi adapters (WLAN) with manual installation
Downloads:
Driver pack for network cards and Wi-Fi devices with automatic installation
Driver pack with shell from Driver Pack Solution v.16.17
Files to download.
If the Wi-Fi adapter does not work or does not work correctly, the reason for this may be the wrong drivers for it. This article shows step by step how to install and reinstall, update or uninstall the Wi-Fi adapter driver on your laptop in Windows 10, 8 and Windows 7.
Note: If the reason you were looking for instructions on how to download and install the Wi-Fi driver is that it does not work, and a red X is shown in the connection icon, then this article may help you: (as it does not required in drivers).
Often, in order to update the wireless Wi-Fi adapter driver, the user enters the Windows Device Manager, selects the desired adapter in the "Network adapters" section, and then on the "Driver" tab, clicks the "Update" button (or "Update driver" in the context menu ). And it receives a logical system report that the driver does not need to be updated.
It is important to understand here: this message does not mean that you have the correct driver installed - it only says that there is no other driver in Windows and in the Update Center (in the same way, the message in the manager “The device is working normally” often means only that it does not cause conflicts and errors in Windows, but not that it really works as it should.And as a rule, all these issues are resolved by installing the original driver specifically for your laptop model.
Installing original Wi-Fi drivers on a laptop
The most correct way to install drivers, which usually solves problems with a wireless connection, is to install official drivers from the laptop manufacturer's website. In order to do this, it usually takes the following simple steps.
During the installation and download process, some problems are possible, in particular:
- There is no driver for the current version of Windows - then feel free to download for the previous one, they are usually installed, and if installed, they work (sometimes you need to run the installer in compatibility mode).
- The official website has several drivers for Wi-Fi, for example, Ralink, Qualcomm and Intel - it's not clear which one to download. This issue will be discussed further in the next section.
How to find out which Wi-Fi adapter driver you need
If there are several different drivers for Wi-Fi on the official website or suddenly there is none, then you can find out which driver you need in the following way:
Once you know the name of the wireless network adapter, you can download the driver for it from the official website or simply find it on the Internet from trusted sources.
Another way to install the wireless network driver
If your Wi-Fi Internet stopped working stably or stopped working altogether, while everything was in order before (and the system and drivers were not reinstalled), the following method can help, without downloading any additional drivers.
How to uninstall the Wi-Fi adapter driver
And finally, about uninstalling the driver, which sometimes may be required to install the original Wi-Fi driver.
In the same way as in the previous steps, go to the properties of the wireless adapter, and then on the "Driver" tab, click the "Delete" button and agree to remove the driver.
After uninstalling, run the installation of the original driver - if there were problems with it before, it is highly likely that it will now be successful.
Do you want to get rid of the hated Internet wires? Then you just need to download the WiFi driver for Windows 10. Of course, the presence of a WiFi module in your device is also required, but now almost all modern devices have such modules.
Peculiarities
WiFi technology is widespread all over the world, so manufacturers of computers, laptops and tablets are trying to equip their devices with special WiFi modules that allow wireless access to the Internet. But this is not the only purpose of the drivers, in addition to this driver, they allow:- Set up a WiFi network;
- Set up wireless printing
- Establish a wireless connection with other WiFi devices;
Drivers are distributed free of charge, available for OS with 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. A version in Russian is available for you. But you are unlikely to appreciate it much, since the Russian language is only needed for installation, then you will no longer see the driver interface. But if for some reason your entire system is still in English, then you can translate it without any problems. To do this, you do not have to sit with
Hello.
One of the most necessary drivers for the wireless Internet is, of course, the driver for the Wi-Fi adapter. If it is not there, then it is impossible to connect to the network! And how many questions arise from users who encounter this for the first time ...
In this article, I would like to step by step analyze all the most common questions when updating and installing drivers for a wireless Wi-Fi adapter. In general, in most cases, there are no problems with such a setting and everything happens quickly enough. So, let's begin…
1. How do I know if the driver is installed on the Wi-Fi adapter?
If after installing Windows you cannot connect to a Wi-Fi network, then most likely you have not installed the driver for your wireless Wi-Fi adapter (by the way, it can also be called like this: Wireless Network Adapter). It also happens that Windows 7, 8 can automatically recognize your Wi-Fi adapter and install a driver on it - in this case, the network should work (not the fact that it is stable).
In any case, first we open control Panel, we drive in the search line "dispatcher ..." and open " device Manager» (you can also go to my computer/this computer, then right-click anywhere and select "properties", then select Device Manager on the left in the menu).
Device Manager - Control Panel.
In the device manager, we will be most interested in the tab " network adapters". If you open it, you can immediately see which drivers you have. In my example (see screenshot below), the driver is installed on the Qualcomm Atheros AR5B95 wireless adapter (sometimes, instead of the Russian name “wireless adapter ...”, there may be a combination of “Wireless Network Adapter ...”).
You now have 2 options:
1) There is no driver for the wireless Wi-Fi adapter in the device manager.
You need to install it. How to find it will be described a little later in the article.
2) There is a driver, but Wi-Fi does not work.
In this case, there may be several reasons: either the network equipment is simply turned off (and you need to turn it on), or the wrong driver is installed, which is not suitable for this device (which means you need to remove it and install the right one, see a little lower in the article).
By the way, pay attention that in the device manager there are no exclamation marks and red crosses next to the wireless adapter, indicating that the driver is not working properly.
How do I turn on the wireless network (wireless Wi-Fi adapter)?
First, let's go to: Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections
(you can type the word " connections«, and from the found results select the item view network connections).
Network connections.
If the icon has become colored - it means it's time to move on to setting up the router.
If you don’t have such a wireless network icon, or it doesn’t turn on (doesn’t turn color) - so you need to proceed with installing the driver, or updating it (removing the old one and installing a new one).
By the way, you can try using the function buttons on a laptop, for example, on Acer, to turn on Wi-Fi, you need to press the combination: Fn + F3.
2. Driver search
The provider of the Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) adapter is Atheros.
Selecting and downloading a driver.
A few links to popular laptop manufacturers:
Also find and immediately install the driver you can use the Driver Pack Solution package (see about this package).
3. Installing and updating the driver on the Wi-Fi adapter
1) If you used the Driver Pack Solution package (or a similar package / program), then the installation will go unnoticed for you, the program will do everything automatically.
Update drivers in Driver Pack Solution 14.
2) If you found the driver and downloaded it yourself, then in most cases it will be enough to run the executable file setup.exe. By the way, if you already have a driver for a wireless Wi-Fi adapter in your system, then you must first uninstall it before installing a new one.
3) To uninstall the driver for the Wi-Fi adapter, go to device Manager(to do this, go to my computer, then right-click anywhere on the mouse and select "properties", select Device Manager on the left in the menu).
Looking for drivers for your router? If so, then you are most likely lucky. No, I do not have the necessary drivers for all router models. It would seem that this is a common myth or even a small delusion, which, I hope, I will be able to clarify in the framework of this article.
I don't know why many people try to find drivers for routers. Where did they hear about it from? However, search query statistics show that a lot of people have searched, are searching and will probably search.
Most likely, in the process of installing the router, something goes wrong with a person and a brilliant idea appears that the problem is in the drivers. Yes, such a person thinks, he will install a new driver and everything will work. But in fact, everything is not so.
Do I need a driver for a Wi-Fi router?
No and no again. What's more, they don't even exist. In more detail, the router does not depend on the computer in any way and is an independent separate device. To open the receiver's settings, just connect it to your computer using a network cable, enter the router's IP address in the browser, and voila.If you have an idea in your mind to download a driver for TP-Link, D-Link, Asus or any other router, then throw it aside. Do not fool around for the simple reason that you will not find anything, since there are no such drivers in nature.
Many will have a question: What then is on the disk that comes with all the equipment? Many people think that this is the same driver. No, it is not him. On this disk, as a rule, there is a utility that allows you to quickly configure the router, as well as all the documentation in electronic form.
Another misconception concerns the firmware, which is also mistaken for a driver. But in reality they are different things. The firmware can be compared to Windows OS on a computer, it can also be downloaded from the manufacturer's website and installed for your router model. Here you need to be careful, since the firmware must be carried out strictly according to the instructions, otherwise serious malfunctions are possible.
So, there is not and will not, most likely, in the future drivers either for D-Link, or for TP-Link, or for any other router model. If you notice on some site an offer to download a driver, then it is most likely that a virus or other malicious program is hiding behind it. So, friends, be careful and get rid of this kind of delusion.
The use of WI-FI networks has become a part of everyday life. It is for connecting to access points and correct operation that you need to use a driver for WI-FI on a laptop.
How to test the adapter
When you first start Windows on a laptop, it often fails to connect to a WI-FI network. If this situation occurs, then you need to install the WiFi driver on the laptop (firmware).
The first thing to do is to make sure that WI-FI adapter works. To do this, click on the WI-FI icon in the lower right corner of the screen and select " Network and internet settings" (for versions older than Windows 10 - "Network and Sharing Center").
We make sure that the WI-FI module is turned on, then the icon next to it will be highlighted or turn it on by clicking on the slider. 
For Windows up to the eighth version, select the item "". 
If the module is enabled, then the icon " Wireless network"will be colored, but if it is not highlighted, then you need to turn it on, for this, right-click and select the item" Turn on». 
How to find a driver
If the adapter is turned on, but you can't connect to the wireless network, you should start looking for the firmware. To do this, you need to go to the website of the laptop manufacturer and find software for your model. Below is a list of links where you can download Wi-Fi drivers for the most popular laptop brands:
In the event that you cannot find a Wi-Fi driver for Windows 7/8/10 or do not want to look for it, you can use third-party software. An example of such programs are Snappy Driver Installer, DriverMax, DriverPack Solution.
Automatic driver installation for WiFi
The easiest method to install the wireless network adapter driver is using the standard Windows tools. To do this, press the key combination WIN + R. An input box will appear in the lower left corner of the screen. In the line that opens, enter devmgmt.msc, then press the Enter button. 
In the list of devices, you need to find the WI-FI module by opening " Network adapters", press" Properties». 
Go to tab " Driver» Selecting « Refresh». 
Automatic software installation is possible not only using standard Windows tools, but also using third-party programs, such as Driver genius and Driverpack solution.
After installing the application will search on its own missing software and offer to update it or fully install it. It should be understood that programs do not always work correctly, so it is recommended that you first of all use the manufacturers' websites, and only then try the applications.
In addition to the offline version, there are sites that allow you to find and download any, even rare software.
Manual installation
For manual installation, open device Manager using the key combination "Win + R" and the command devmgmt.msc, find your WI-FI adapter. Then in the tab " Driver» choose « update". In the dialog box, click " Search this computer». 
Specify the path to the folder where the control firmware files are located. 
If the software is suitable, then the installation process will begin.
If the above option for some reason did not fit, it is possible to search by equipment id. To do this, open the module in the device manager and in the item " Intelligence» select the parameter « Device ID". We rewrite the parameters that come after VEN and DEV, in our case these are 10EC and B822. We insert them into any search engine or on a specialized site, for example, driverslab. 
Uninstalling the WI-FI driver
There are situations in which it is necessary to reinstall the firmware. For example, the previously installed software does not work correctly. To do this, you first need to remove the old firmware. To do this, open device Manager. According to the instructions from the previous paragraphs, we tear off the properties of our device. In the properties of the network adapter, go to the tab " Driver» select the item « Delete device». 