I have an acer aspire 3680. I had to reinstall Windows Vista. It does not have a wireless network anymore?

Question

After i reinstalled Vista. I went to find a wireless signal from our router but it does not even have the wireless network anymore. They have Dial up and Po... for the Broadband. How would I get back my wireless setting. Please Help me.

Answer 1

Go to this website ( http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acer/bin/a... ) and select notebook, then find your notebook on the list.  Once you choose your model, you will be given a long list of drivers.  Download the 802.11b+g (Broadcom) driver and install it.  You will probably need to restart the computer.  After that, just make sure the wireless is actually on (hit the button on your actual laptop, make sure the light is on) and it should work.

Answer 2

you have to go to google on another computer and go to google and type in acer drivers, and look for a site with drivers, upload those drivers on a usb and connect it to the computer and download them

Answer 3

I think what your problem is, is that you've lost all of your drivers, this happened to me, and once i downloaded the driver for it, it was back to normal!

And oh yeah you can find Acer Drivers here

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/dow...

Answer 4

While I do not have my Acer in front of me to look but I think you may need to reinstall the acer wireless network driver.. I know there had been problems with the latest update on the driver and I had to use an older one. This link is on the subject of XP but it may help!

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-rep...

Answer 5

Did you reinstall Vista or Format and reinstall or use the recovery partition? Here are four options for you to try -

The most obvious is have you switched the wireless device on? It is either a slide button or one of the F keys (e.g. you would press the Fn button and perhaps the F2) the F key will have an aerial symbol on it.

If you reinstalled over the existing installation you may find in your "My Computer" a folder called Windows Old, in there your old drivers are still available. Just press the Windows Logo Key (on the keyboard) and E, look in the Local Disk (C:) and see if its there. If so at the top of the same page that opened click on System Properties, open Device Manager from the list on the left. Look to see if there is either a network device or unknown device short of its driver (it will have a ? in a yellow circle). Double click it and it will open the properties box, choose update driver, get it to navigate to Windows Old, open it into Windows, then System32 and then OK and it will search all the files and folders within it, it should find the right ones and load the drivers straight away.

If you used the Recovery Partition then the Windows Old folder isnt there so you need to look for a folder called DRVS, the wireless drivers are in there, but if you did a System Recovery it should have loaded the drivers anyway.

Last option is to use the network cable that came with your wireless router, plug it into one of the sockets on the back of the router and then the other end into the computer socket, it only fits one socket and only one way round. That will allow an internet connection by cable then go to http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/not... and download the wireless drivers. Note there are 5 different drivers available so see if the label on the underneath will give you a clue as to which one you need to install. All wireless devices require a conformity sticker so the manufacturer at least will be shown on the label

Answer 6

cause you lost the wireless drive use the ethernet cord for the internet and then search for the wireless driver