wifi card not working

[paul2011]

i have an Acer Aspire One AOA150 running Windows 7 Ultmate X86 and when i turn on or wake from hibernate the wifi thing in the bottom left of the screen has an X saying it hasnt found any wifi connections and isnt working.


every time i have to go into the change adapter settings disable it and re-enable it so it can actually find any sort of wifi

i have an Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter

how can i fix it so that i dont need to disable and enable it each time


(btw i havent got system restore active as i dont have much space left on hdd)

 

[paul2011]

CAN ANYONE HELP ME???

 

[2xg]

Disable the problematic Atheros power saving mode from Device Manager, locate the Network Adapter=> Properties=> Atheros=> Power Management Tab, in here you may disable any Power Save mode options by unchecking them off.

 

[paul2011]

Disable the problematic Atheros power saving mode from Device Manager, locate the Network Adapter=> Properties=> Atheros=> Power Management Tab, in here you may disable any Power Save mode options by unchecking them off.

I cant find the power management tab


also what are the Microsoft ISATAP Adapters and the teredo tunneling pseudo-interface drivers(???)

 

[2xg]

Let's try something else, uninstall your Atheros adapter from Device Manager, then install the new driver that you may download from the manufacturer's site.

 

[paul2011]

Just installed it and now there is another wireless network connection

it is called Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

what is this???

 

[2xg]

it is called Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter

Nothing to worry about it, it's a Virtual Wi-Fi for WLAN drivers supporting the Windows 7 logo.

How's your connection after? Did you update the driver to the current one?

 

[dragon6687]

could be driver issue. Does it only happen after you come out of sleep or hibernate? For the first year I had 7 I couldn't put my system into sleep because of a poor graphics driver, if I were to come out of sleep I would get a BSOD. This was only fixed by a recent driver that came out, maybe there isn't a proper driver for your card yet? either that or you don't have the most up to date drivers

 

[paul2011]

ITS WORKING NOW

could be driver issue. Does it only happen after you come out of sleep or hibernate? For the first year I had 7 I couldn't put my system into sleep because of a poor graphics driver, if I were to come out of sleep I would get a BSOD. This was only fixed by a recent driver that came out, maybe there isn't a proper driver for your card yet? either that or you don't have the most up to date drivers

nah cos i have had 7 installed since b4 Xmas and it was fine up untill couple of days back then my laptop decided to pretty much die each time the clock reached 00:00 (like bender from futurama it got a mind of its own)

here's the post (any help would be appreciated)