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Network Adapter Not Detected and Not shown in Device Manager
Hi,
I own a Acer Aspire S3-951 ultrabook.
I accidentally installed the wrong drivers yesterday while updating the device drivers as I ran into internet trouble and diagnostics said there seems to be a problem with either the drivers or hardware. Ever since the system is unable to detect my network adapter. It should be an Atheros ar5bwb225 adapter. When I boot the system there was a big red X and no connection, so I ran diagnostics and it said I didn't have the drivers (the incorrect drivers installed over the old one). In Device manager, unfortunately neither the old nor new(wrong) drivers are displayed, so I tried to uninstall the Atheros installation program to remove the wrong drivers.
That ran into trouble as the wrong drivers could not be uninstalled because it was unable to locate the network card for the wrong drivers. So I downloaded the correct driver from the Acer website and ran setup. Setup could not be completed because it says my network adapter is unplugged.
Followed a few different links on this site including the IP reset in this post: https://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...but-s-not.html
Also disabled, uninstalled and removed Bonjour. With IPconfig, as I'm using a USB wireless adapter temporarily it shows:
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter #
2
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
With the USB Adapter unplugged and no wireless connection, IPConfig /all Does not show any headings with the word Wireless, nor LAN.
I installed HWVendorDetect from Acer and running that it detected a network adapter from Atheros. However, the adapter is not shown in Device Manager, and there are no unknown/other devices and no yellow question marks.
Is there anything else I can try please?