Wifi card problem on bootcamp

Hi everyone!
I've decided to install windows 8 on an external hard drive (tutorial here: http://tweaks.com/windows/52279/how-to-create-a-windows-to-go-usb-drive/)
It works fine thanks to the drivers I downloaded from BootCamp. BUT, the only driver that failed seems to be the wifi card one. when I have a look at device manager, it tells me i have no wifi card, not even an unrecognised card, nothing at all... For some people, it seems that the card is too good for windows (i had to download an old driver form the Broadcom website) but i can't use it (nothing to install it to.)
What can i do?
I can't even download 8.1!
BTW, I have to use a windows machine for my job, but it's sh$t!!!
Thanks anyway

I found out by myself: I reinstalled the all the drivers and now it works fine

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Thank you for the suggestion. I installed the firmware, the modules were loaded correctly, and the OS detected it, but it wouldn't work.
I pretty much have given up. I returned the card mentioned above. I even bought and tried another wifi card without success. My experience has been:
Intel wifi 4965 miniPCIe: Works great, but anything past Linux kernel 2.6.27 (I think it was) will not boot with the card in the computer and with the wifi switched on.
Intel wifi 5100 miniPCIe: The wifi switch never appeared to detect it. Linux detected it and installed the drivers for it, but the "wifi on" light never turned on, and Linux couldn't use it because it didn't think it was on. I gave up and returned it to Newegg. The problem may have been related to this, but that is for miniPCI cards, and not miniPCIe.
Intel wifi 3945 miniPCIe: It is branded as a Toshiba card, and so I thought it would work in a Toshiba laptop. I bought it cheap off of Ebay. It is neither detected by the OS or the wifi switch.
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for the sim card, try this:
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Last edited by quigybo (2010-11-12 01:56:01)

Problems with build in wifi card in DV6-2190us.

Hi am trying to see if someone can help me out with a problem am having with my WIFI and also LAN on my laptop.
The problems am having is with connectivity and speed on WIFI and also problems connecting to a network with a Ethernet cable.
The problem am having with my wifi is when trying to connect to a network it takes me about 5 to 10 minutes just to try to connect to the network and once connected it will continue to say unidentified network and it will take 5 to 10 minutes to connect to the internet. Once connected to the network and the internet the connection will start fast and slow down to a crawl even do am 10 to 20 feet away from the wireless router and I have full bars. After the connection slows down I will get disconnected from the network and it will take me 10 to 20 minutes to get back on it.
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Laptop information.
DV6-2190us
Windows 7 64bit Home SP1
i7 1.60
Ram 8gb
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progandy wrote:Is there an entry for your onboard wifi in rfkill? Then block it when pluggin in the usb stick and unblock it lateron.
Thanks for the reply.
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My setup
Hardware: Pismo G3 Powerbook + Lucent Technologies/Wavelan/Orinoco Silver Wifi card + 3Com wifi router
Software: OS 10.3.9 + WirelessDriverBeta5.1dmg
The Pismo recognises the wi-fi card when I plug it in: an icon appears in the menu bar showing Lucent Technologies, Wavelan/IEE. The first sign that something is wrong is that both of these options are greyed out.
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Nick
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That driver is a bit quirky.
You have to use System Preferences > Network > and establish it as an Ethernet network interface ( en1, en2 but not fw0, fw1 etc.) before anything else will work. From the sourceforge FAQ:
How do I configure the WirelessDriver now that I have installed it?
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2) Open the WirelessConfig preference pane and enter the Network name (this is case sensitive) and the WEP key if using encryption. If you are using a non-Apple basestation, you may want to select the text version of the hex key (see below for more info).
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I just purchased a Gigafast WF748-CUI wireless card for my iMac G3 running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.10) and I followed the instructions exactly and did everything right but it will NOT connect. It keeps generating these weird IP addresses beginning with 168. but my networks IP address begins with 192. I had the same problem with my previous WIFI card on the iMac but it would work eventually. I have been messing with this one for like 2 hours and it has shown no sign of working. I even entered a manual IP address in but still nothing. The program for the wireless card says its connected but it is not (or isnt connected to the right IP anyway). What do I do?

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Parts like that are not readily available to swap from machine to machine. There are standards for which the card interfaces to the machine and thats why I mentioned the form factor of the card.
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Java 5
Windows XP, 2000, and Adv. Server
We do programming for multiple closed networks, so my development box has 4 NICs, each going to a different isolated network (each has its own subnet).
All was well until recently we had some WiFi cards installed in our machines. Now initiating a socket connection on any NIC that is not on the same subnet as the default gateway takes a long time - about 30 seconds, but it can vary. Once the connection is made, its just as fast as ever, but creating the connection takes a lot of time.
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edex67,
I'm new to wifi so the info you sent, i.e.; inSSIDer, is something I didn't know about. So thankX for that. Interference not part of the problem. I did change channels from 11 to 5 as some of the neighbors are on 11 and 6. That didn't help. 5 Ghz change doesn't help either. Have reset to factory specs twice along with deleting my first network and beginning from scratch. Still didn't speed things up. ISP isn't a problem either. Separate diagnostics shows download speeds great. I've even restored my computer to a previous date when the Airport Express was screaming downloads. The slowdown happened yesterday as I was trying to set up my old computer; changed motherboards and can't access the internet, needed to find drivers on line and somehow in the process Airport slowed to a crawl. Must have changed something and can't get back to the speed of yesterday morning. Have been working on this since 8 AM. Did I mention that I hate Microsoft?
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Is it possible to replace the wifi card with another one?

Hi
I have a t400 with intel 5100 wifi card and now I want to install mac os on my laptop.
problem is that mac os does not detect the 5100 series of wifi card and I want to know whether it is possible to replace the current 5100 model with a older series?
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Solved!
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Lenovo restricts the wireless cards to Lenovo branded units certified to work with the machine. This is done through a whitelist in the system BIOS. I recently disassembled the latest (version 3.14-1.06) T500/W500 BIOS and found the following whitelist table. This is raw big endian hex appended with what I found by searching the device ID's. Redundant entries are for varying vendor IDs.
86803B428680111000 Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5350 AGN [Echo Peak] Network Connection
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86803D428680161200 8086:423D Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150
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Your T400 is from the same lineup and probably has the same list. Remember, you'll need to purchase a Lenovo branded unit.
Also look for a PM with additional information.

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I also have both a MacBook and a MacBook pro at work, same issue.
In my opinion, this is Apple's problem, not a consumer problem.
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