Nc8000 WLAN driver

Didi P. · External Since: Dec 31, 2006 Posts: 1

I installed Windows Vista Business on my HP nc8000 - everything was found
except the wireless card (HP Wlan w400) and a "basis system device" - i treid
the wlan driver from win xp - but did not work (setup came up with an error
Sad

)

Any idea?

Colin Barnhorst · External Since: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 2211

Does HP have a Vista driver on the website?

"Didi P." <Didi P. RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I installed Windows Vista Business on my HP nc8000 - everything was found
> except the wireless card (HP Wlan w400) and a "basis system device" - i
> treid
> the wlan driver from win xp - but did not work (setup came up with an
> error
> Sad

)
>
> Any idea?

Didi P. · External Since: Jan 01, 2007 Posts: 1

No - not until now Sad

I saw saw that the HP win xp driver should work in an hp forum - but did not
work on my site .....

damn Wink

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Does HP have a Vista driver on the website?
>
> "Didi P." <Didi P..DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:46893CE3-CA20-4D4E-9402-16D371F42719@microsoft.com...
> >I installed Windows Vista Business on my HP nc8000 - everything was found
> > except the wireless card (HP Wlan w400) and a "basis system device" - i
> > treid
> > the wlan driver from win xp - but did not work (setup came up with an
> > error
> > Sad

)
> >
> > Any idea?
>

TC · External Since: Jan 06, 2007 Posts: 1

I've got the same two issues. I'm trying to identify what the unknown system device is. I've noticed that my SD card reader doesn't work, so I'm guessing it's somehow related.

I've tried the latest chipset driver package from the Intel website, no luck there.

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news.bell.newshosting.com · External Since: Jan 11, 2007 Posts: 2

Been there done that you need to go and intall the XP driver from www.hp.com

AM

"TC" wrote in message news:200716215316tc@nothanks.com...
> I've got the same two issues. I'm trying to identify what the unknown
> system device is. I've noticed that my SD card reader doesn't work, so I'm
> guessing it's somehow related.
>
> I've tried the latest chipset driver package from the Intel website, no
> luck there.
>
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Jasondefaoite · Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 4

For the W400/W500 wireless adapters used in the HP laptops ... obtaining the drivers is a little tricky. I also could not get the drivers from the website to install on Vista, even with "run as admin" and compatibility mode XP SP2 enabled.

Here's what you need to do...

Download the XP drivers from HP, and run the exe. This extracts the install files and copies them to the c:\swsetup\xxxx (where xxxx is a number matching the XP driver file name.

In this xxxx there will be a number of files ... but the 3 important ones are..

data1.cab
data1.hdr
data2.cab

you can delete everything except these.

Now these are not microsoft cabinet files but installshield cab files, and you need to use something like winpack to extract files from them.

The actual driver files you need are...

ar5211.sys
net5211.inf
net5211.cat.

If I remember correctly, I extracted all of them from Data1.cab .. not 100% though... been a while :p

Put these three files in a folder, then goto device manager, update drivers for the ethernet controller, have disk, and load these. Works perfect.

And yes, the base system device is the SD card reader. The drivers from HPs website works for this item, but you need to enable "run as admin" to install correctly.

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Jasondefaoite · Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 4

Dunno why my original post not showing up in the hardware devices thread list (as being the latest poster in the thread). Only if you click on this thread can you see it. Let's see if this helps :p