Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter adapter is not working.

Anonymous
2012-11-11T06:19:45+00:00

I have Acer V3-571 laptop.

I upgraded to windows 8 from windows 7.

Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adapter adapter is showing working fine in the device manager ,but wifi is not working.

when I checked the on off soft switch in the Pc setting ,the swith found in disable position.Could anybody assist to solve it?

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Anonymous
2012-12-13T15:59:03+00:00

Well I resolved it by bypassing the wireless adapter and buying a nano external wireless usb thing, it works perfectly now. problem still not fixed however.

I found a way to fix my Network, ive manually uninstalled the Network cards Drivers and downloaded the following file "win78-10.0.0.75-whql" from

http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-download.php?chipset=81&system=6

and simply installed the driver via the Device Manager

Hope this will help some of you.

Regards,

Pieter Cachet

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-11T09:50:19+00:00

    Thank you yzze. After days of trying to figure out the problem we have fixed it using your steps.

    Cheers and yes folks this works!

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-01T11:01:25+00:00

    My wireless was not working to start with. 

    After browsing several threads I followed one and changed it slightly to get mine to work on my Laptop (Acer Aspire V3-571).

    So try this:

    Go to the Device Manager:

    1.  Double-Click :   Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adaptor

    2.  Right Click:        Update Driver Software

    3.  Select:               Browse My Computer ........ 

    4.  Select:               Let me pick

    5.  Select:              Atheros AR5BWB222 Wireless Network Adaptor

    (the one without the word: Qualcomm)

    6.  Select               Next

    7.  Restart Laptop.

    8.  An orange wireless light should come on and wireless should be working.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-28T19:51:36+00:00

    Hi everyone.

    While I could not solve the unreliability on my device with the driver updates or the power saving settings.

    However, when I changed my wifi access point's channel from "auto" to "11" then all of the sudden my laptop wifi connection started working like a charm.

    Figured it may help while the big boys solve the driver issue...

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-27T18:19:37+00:00

    Pieter!

    You're a hero! Installing the old windows 7 driver did the job. Works perfectly now.

    Thanks a million!

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