Laptop won't connect to wifi after clean windows install

astrospud

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A friend bought a new Acer Aspire E1-570 laptop and it had a lot of bloatware so he borrowed my windows 8.1 cd and did a clean install, he told me he deleted all the previous partitions during the install (which I think erased the driver) and when it finished, there was no wifi. I looked in device manager and there was no driver for the network card. I went to the Acer website to try and find drivers to install and found 2, one for Atheros, one for Broadcom. I tried both, the one for Atheros had no way to let me install, just a bunch of random files. The one for Broadcom had a setup application, but it tried installing bluetooth drivers. It's hooked up by ethernet to the router and working but he wants wifi. You can look here http://www.acer.com.au/ac/en/AU/content/drivers for the Aspire E1-570 drivers and see what I mean.

Thanks.
 
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If the manufacturers website isn't of any help you can go search for the driver number in google.
To find this click start, right click my computer, click properties and then open the "device manager"
Find the network driver, right click it, go to properties, click on the details tab and under that where it says device description, select hardware id's.
Pick one of the id's and search for it in google.
Only ever download the driver itself, not a program that scans and updates them for you.
(I took this from a previous topic i replied to)

enderpoop

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If the manufacturers website isn't of any help you can go search for the driver number in google.
To find this click start, right click my computer, click properties and then open the "device manager"
Find the network driver, right click it, go to properties, click on the details tab and under that where it says device description, select hardware id's.
Pick one of the id's and search for it in google.
Only ever download the driver itself, not a program that scans and updates them for you.
(I took this from a previous topic i replied to)
 
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