Wifi Not working!! PLs help !! Urgent!!?

[elaine81]

Hi all , need ur help here . i was helping my friend reformat his laptop ( Lenovo g230) running on Vista Ultimate . After i reformat i download all the drivers from lenovo & install . I did restart before i try on the drivers , but wifi wasn't working , i checked on device manager An unknown device Under "Other device" hv a exclamation mark beside it . Can any experts here advise what i can do ?

Thanks in advanced!!

 

[Ijack]

Does the wireless network card show (or is that the "unknown device"). If it does show then I wouldn't worry, for the time being, about the unknown. If it doesn't then you clearly didn't download all drivers. Do you know what chipset the wireless card is?

 

[elaine81]

Intel chipset?

 

[Ijack]

Looking at the Lenovo Website, this model came with either an Intel wireless card or a Broadcom one. It may be that you have downloaded the incorrect driver. Download both from here and see if either of them workds.

 

[elaine81]

i downloaded and installed all my drivers including the wireless card from the link u hv given me.

 

[Ijack]

Just to clarify - have you tried the Broadcom wireless card as well as the Intel one?

 

[elaine81]

opps , i guess i understand wat u trying to tell me . Yup , i overlooked and install both broadcom & intel wlan card ... hahaha now i removed the broadcom lan card , but when i restarted my laptop , i was prompt to install a network controller. I was thinking of removing the intel wlan card & install the broadcom wlan card , but i couldn't find the intel wlan card in remove program ... wat to do now , i am getting confused...

 

[Ijack]

I would just try installing the Broadcom driver again. It shouldn't really matter that the Intel driver is also installed. When that's done, have a look in Device Manager to see whether the card appers under "Network Adapters". If it does, without an exclamation mark, then it should be working so if you still have a problem it is not a driver issue.

 

[elaine81]

hv installed the broadcom card , but still wifi does not connect . System prompt "window cannot detect any networks."

 

[Ijack]

Have a look at this article and see if anything helps.

Edit: Just another thought - many laptops have a switch to disable/enable the network card. You might want to check if this is the case with yours. (Last time I had a problem with the mousepad not working on a laptop it turns out it was just switched off.)

 

[elaine81]

Hv checked wifi button on ...

 

[Ijack]

You haven't said yet whether the wireless card shows up in Device Manager (under "Network Adapters"). It it does, have a go at setting the connection up manually as described here.

 

[elaine81]

so sorry , i missed tat out , yes it did show up in network adaptor , but then when i tried to set up the connection manually as per describe in your reply i can't . When i try to click on "connect to ", sys prompt me " Windows cannot find any network ." Pls , pls , pls help me ... thanks

 

[Ijack]

I really don't know what else to suggest. But you could try switching your wireless router off and on again.

 

[elaine81]

, oh... Anyway thanks for your help!!

 

[elaine81]

Hey i hv managed to make the wifi work!! by reformating the whole os & installing the drivers again. But got another problem , can get the chinese interface to work. i used to use NJstar but now it doesn't work in vista ... wat to do??

 

[Ijack]

I'm glad you've got the WiFi working but I'm afraid that Chinese is a little beyond my capabilities.