Can't find wifi driver

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

I recently formatted and installed windows 7 on my acer aspire e5-573-55w1. I tried all the drivers on the acer driver website and even some drivers from the realtek and intel websites but none of them work. I did the detection tool from acers website and it says i have a realtek wifi adapter. Trying to install the realtek drivers keeps saying "cant run findfile".

 

[Paul NZ]

Might]http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers]Might be this[/url]

Dbl click on its entry in device manager. Go to details tab change it to hardware ids. Copy and paste where there in here

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

Might]http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers]Might be this[/url]

thats what I meant when I said I tried the drivers on their site

 

[Paul NZ]

Copy and paste what it says above in device manager

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_098A1025&REV_15
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_098A1025
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&CC_0200

 

[Paul NZ]

Thats Realtek ethernet not wireless drivers.

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

my bad, clicked the wrong one. Here is the one i got from "network controller"
PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0042&SUBSYS_180611AD&REV_30
PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0042&SUBSYS_180611AD
PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0042&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0042&CC_0280

 

[Paul NZ]

Theyre Atheros drivers by the looks of it. But theres 2 Atheros drivers for the E5-573 (dont know if this is yours) on the Acer site

Theres a NFA335 and a NFA435. Do you know what yours is?

These MAY work but as it says theyre unofficial

Looks like this file has an inf file in it. So you go to update driver under the entry / browse my computer / let me pick

Extract that file first then point it to the inf file in that folder

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

Theyre Atheros drivers by the looks of it. But theres 2 Atheros drivers for the E5-573 (dont know if this is yours) on the Acer site

Theres a NFA335 and a NFA435. Do you know what yours is?

Im not sure, I tried the NFA335 though and it didnt work, im gonna try the second one now

 

[Paul NZ]

The above file MAY work

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

Wow this worked, thank you so much cus i litteraly went through 20+ drivers that shoudlve worked

 

[Paul NZ]

Sweet good to hear they worked So the NFA435 drivers were the ones that worked?

 

[Ilia Mchedlishvili]

Sweet good to hear they worked So the NFA435 drivers were the ones that worked?

yep

 

[Paul NZ]

Excellent !