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Luke D Posted on Oct 17, 2017
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Acer aspire 5552G wireless adapter loses conncection

My wireless adapter for my laptop loses connection at random intervals (Atheros AR5B97 wireless adapter). I can be gaming or just browsing the internet before it disconnects and I get an error message that 'The network adapter may be disconnected or broken'. I then have to reset my laptop to get a connection back...bare annoying.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Nov 06, 2008

SOURCE: How to turn on wireless on Acer Aspire 4520 laptop

At the top of your key board right below the power button, there is a row of hotkeys the far left one is the wireless button.

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DEKR

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  • Posted on Jan 19, 2009

SOURCE: Iam connected to the wireless network but cant access internet

right click my computer
then properties
hardware and then devices
scroll down till you find your network
click it and then update
after updating restart
let me know if that helped

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  • Posted on Jul 18, 2009

SOURCE: Aspire 5100 will not connect to wireless network.

http://driverstock.com/Acer-Aspire-5100-driver-download/4-21-12867/index.html
so ..my advise is to reinstall the windows xp ...cause this machine it was on xp from the first ...and this might be just the reason ..those are the drivers for it
also ...you can download Everest software ...and locate the exact name of the wifi platform ..and look after that for a vista driver for it by its name ......this way you cant be wrong ...cause you locate the suitable driver ...not the ones they feed us in packages...

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Oct 18, 2009

SOURCE: find driver of Atheros AR5B91 4 Acer Extensa 5630Z laptop

Go here
http://download.driverguide.com/driver/AR5B91/Atheros+Communications/d1364439.html

you can login with this id
user name: [email protected]
password: mememe

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 21, 2010

SOURCE: I bought tow eM250 series EMachine (ACER) mini

I also purchased two of these computers. I wiped the HDD and installed Win7 Ultimate. I could not get the wireless NIC driver to install. My solution was to use another wireless USB NIC and use Windows Update, Voila everything was fine. Iam writing this post with one of them. I am somewhat confused by your post referring to a Broadcom NIC. Both of my machines have AtherosAR5B5 wireless network adapters and Atheros AR9132 PCI-e Fast Internet Comtrolers. Broadcom has always meant Bluetooth driver to me, but I may be mistaken about that.

I have always thought of eMachines as being the cheapest in both price and quality but I did a rather extensive investigation on netbooks in general and could not find and justification for spending twice as much for a more popular name brand with basically the same capacities.

I don't know how to do one to one assistance on this site, but if you can figure it out I would be more than willing to help you. I am very pleased with these two netbooks!

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