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
    2014-07-15T22:20:10+00:00

    There is nothing for you to download on the website.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-12T21:31:21+00:00

    how do you installed it???

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-21T22:38:04+00:00

    For those still having trouble with the Atheros AR5BWB222 wireless drivers, especially on the Acer Aspire V5-573G, this is the solution:

    Power saving, but somewhere else than you would think!

    All forum threads say that you have to right click the device in the device manager and turn power saver off there.

    WRONG

    I noticed that my WiFi only crapped out when I wasn't plugged in to the power outlet. Read on to find why.

    The solution in Windows 8 is to go to the down left corner (Windows logo), right click, and select 'Power Options' from the popup menu.

    You will see three power settings (power saver, balanced and high performance).

    You will need to do the next steps for both 'balanced' and 'power saver':

    Click 'Change plan settings'.

    Now click 'Change advanced power settings'

    Now scroll down to 'Wireless adapter settings', and change 'Power saving mode' on battery from 'maximum power saving' to 'maximum performance'. (The reason WiFi keeps working while plugged in, is because the power saving of the adapter is only done when using battery life.)

    Remember, do this for both the 'power saver' and 'balanced' power profiles!

    I am not sure how much more power the WiFi adapter will use. You may want to try some other options than 'maximum performance' and see at what option wifi keeps working consistently... I just went to maximum performance directly.

    After doing all this, restart the laptop, and you SHOULD be fine. :-D

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-02T17:07:27+00:00

    I tried that, but apparently it only worked the first time. Subsequently, it kept giving me the same error. So far so good!

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