Get the wireless working in Windows 7 on an Aspire One

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After a co-worker asked me to install the Windows 7 beta  onto his wife’s new Aspire One, I ran into a common netbook frustration. My freshly-loaded OS couldn’t find an appropriate wireless driver.

A couple of Google searches later, and I was starting to get disheartened. Finally, I came across atheros.cz.

If you’ve got an Aspire One, the file you want is on this page. The download failed with IE8 and IE7 due to the infamous gold bar, but Firefox and Chrome can get at it with no problem. Once it’s on your machine, extract the files to a folder and then open Device Manager.

To install it, don’t let Windows 7 search for drivers. Instead, choose browse and then click let me pick. Now choose have disk and browse to your new folder.  Select the Atheros AR5006x from the list. You may have to reboot – prior to doing so, I was able to see access points but couldn’t connect, and the LED would not come on.

After rebooting, everything worked just fine. Good luck!

If you missed it, here is the link to the Acer Aspire One Atheros Wireless drivers for Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7

Lee Mathews is a computer technician in Manitoba, Canada. He’s a regular contributor to Download Squad, and the proud owner of an MSI Wind U100 netbook.

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Posted on Friday, January 16th, 2009, 4:21 pm by Lee
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  • jr
    do i have to search for drivers before i install windows? what happens if I have already installed it and now need to install the driver? It takes me to a site where I have to pay. Im beyond frustrated..PLEASE HELP!!
  • mohammed Elfateh
    my computer acer aspair one it has no network driver what should i do???
  • Henry tudayan
    sir what is your network card realtek broadcom atheros
  • mike_petersen
    The link seems to be broken. do you have this file that you could pass along to folks?
  • THANK YOU SO MUCH!
    I WAS SOOOOO FRUSTRATED BUT NOW YOU HELPED ME!
  • JimmieD
    Do you know if Acer is using the same wireless adapter in the D150 version of the Aspire One? I assume if they are, this driver should work for it as well?
  • 5007EG and REBOOT and WORKS
  • warcry
    U are a god :)
  • Per
    "To install it, don’t let Windows 7 search for drivers. Instead, choose browse and then click let me pick. ......"

    i cant find the browse!
    Can somebody help me, i am a noob
  • Colin Cook
    I think it's the "Have Disk..." button when you search for the driver yourself.
  • Per
    I cant find that either.

    Please can somebody tell me step by step?
  • lccurtis1
    The driver you listed the AR5006x is an older driver the newer updated driver is AR5007EG you can download them from Acers FTP site all version of the drivers are inculded in theWireless_ Atheros v. 7.6.0.264 zip . Once you start to update drivers it will show 3 versions of the AR5007EG in the list choose the second version and reboot system. You might have to update driver a second time to get the light to start working. Here is the link below

    http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/ftp/ftp.html
  • asspeacer
    lccuurtis1, you suck. The latest version 7.6.0.264 totally not working. I tried to install more than 10 times still failed.
  • lccurtis1
    Sorry dude worked for me and a few others
  • drok77
    I found the same driver lccurtis1 is talking about here:
    ftp://ftp.acer-euro.com/netbook/aspire_one_150/driver/Wireless_Atheros_v.7.6.0.264.zip

    Use the setup file included, then reboot Windows. This worked for me!
  • wayne
    is that pink netbook the ugliest thing you've ever seen? yuk, yuk and double yuk!
  • Yup, atheros.cz is THE resource for Atheros WLAN drivers. Sadly, no LAN drivers to be found there.
  • skamunisM
    I installed Windows 7 on my Aspire One without issue. Odd.
  • Fduch
    Why can't you click "the infamous gold bar" and select "download the file"?
    It's so easy/
  • DG
    Yes, it does work, it's just that the site is completely unclear as to what it's doing at any point, and you have to wait arbitrary lengths of time without any indication of what's going on, such that it would appear to anyone but the most patient that the download had failed.
  • PrincessNybor
    Agreed. Here is a link to the driver that shouldn't require all that frustration! Let me know if this works for everyone. :)

    http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/149843/Software/vist...
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