Wireless and Acer Aspire 5020

[maliskrat]

Hello,

Can anyone help me with the isue about my wireless and windows 7. I have formated and installed windows 7 on my acer aspire 5020, then I have updated drivers and all of them are installed now. Now my problem is... My wireless is not working, becuse it need Launcher Manager to enable it, but this Launcher Manager is not compatible with windows 7, so my question goes... Does anyone solved that problem jet, or found some program that starts the wireless?... Is here someone that can help me with my isue...

Thnx

 

[garysgold]

Hello Maliskrat,

Welcome to Seven Forums.

Have you tried installing Launcher Manager in Compatibility Mode. More info if needed. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

Hope this helps.

Gary

 

[maliskrat]

I did it allready... But it didn't helped
Now my question is if this acer Launch Manager needs some other files from acer to run... Does anyone know about this Launch Manager...

And thnx Gary

 

[AussieGuy92]

i have an acer i also did a clean install and reformat and got ride on acer empowering technology and lanch manager try re installing the orginal drivers and update them using device manager. if not go to the acer website and look for updates.

hope this helps

-Andrew.

 

[maliskrat]

Hi Stillfreefilms, yes I did everything you said... Do you have acer aspire 5020, and which program enables your wireless? On acer suport site noeone know the solution to my problem...

 

[AussieGuy92]

i own a acer 5313 notebook i thought i would have to get empowering technology and launch manager to work but when i was installing windows found my network and wireless drives for me and it worked.

its strange it does not work for you though

what is the name of the wireless drivers? mine are broadcom.

have you tried turning on the wireless? there should be a button or switch on the out side on the top near the speakers or near the audio jack when its on there a orange light will appear and flash.

hope this helps.

 

[aem]

On acer suport site noeone know the solution to my problem...

Amazing to say the least. W7 has a builtin wirelessutility that dwarfs any previous ones. Virtually no setup required, just have driver for your adapter installed and wifi switch ON and you'll get connected in no time. Unless you have a USB modem type adapter which may require a thrid party software to run, which i doubt your Acer has.

 

[maliskrat]

All that you say is corect, but problem is in the "switch" couse it's turned on by the Launch Manager. So if this Launch Manager is not working in Windows 7 my wireless is not working to... In the Device Manager is all installed, drivers are ok and everything is ready to go , now the problem is only in "Launch Manager"...

But, if anyone know how to bypass the Launch Manager, and how to turn wireless on without it, I will be very happy...

 

[aem]

Is there no wifi switch that you can manually turn on and off? That and also in the BIOS you need to have wireless turned on or enabled. Is your wireless adapter shown in Device Manager?

 

[maliskrat]

The only one switch is trigered with the Launch Manager

 

[garysgold]

This is a laptop, correct? Hit the winlogokey+x. That should bring up windows mobility center. Mine has an on/off switch there. There is some stuff that HP put there on mine, but that doesn't appear to be one of them. I just found this myself and am curious if it is normal. I haven't wiped the HP install yet so don't know what the defaults are.

 

[rkdb]

Not sure if this will help but usually you can enable radio with the Fn key and one of the F1, F2 and so on check your users manual. Hope this helps

 

[maliskrat]

Yes it is laptop, winlogkey and x is not working... , but for the radio I don't know how to enable it, but the Fn+F1 or F2 brings up help or system setings of connection... Still trying to find which one trigers radio
But I doubt that will work without switching wireless without Launch Manager

Thnx for helpthis far...

 

[aem]

Have you checked the user guide as someone has mentioned? There might even be a hotkey utility that could be used to enabled the adapter, downloadable from the vendor's site.

 

[maliskrat]

Nothing worked this far... I'm still trying to figure out how to enable wireless with or without Launch Manager... I was looking on the other forums but all say that Launc Manager needs to run if I want to enable wireless...

 

[aem]

Found this. Hope it can be of help.

Acer Aspire 502x(WLMi) - SlackWiki


1. Enable Wireless

2.6.24:

• Download, build and install acer_acpi
• Load acer_acpi: modprobe acer_acpi wireless=1

 

[maliskrat]

Thnx for all try, I managed to fix the problem via msnconfig and start up... Now my wireless works... I'm so happy now

 

[garysgold]

Glad you got it sorted out. Thanks for posting back.

 

[padehuster]

i have exactly the same problem that you had...
is there any chance you could go into more detail explaining what you did with msconfig to get wireless enabled please?
i've been searching for days

thanks

 

[psmech]

Hi, I have the very same problem. Pushing front button responsible for bringing up wireless doesn't work at all on Windows 7...