Guest churchwa Posted February 14, 2009 Report Share Posted February 14, 2009 I have a new dell laptop with an AR5009 wireless card in it. I can install the dell drivers on a fresh OS but as soon as I do Windows wants to install it's newer drivers direct from Artheros. Version 1.0.0.7 dated 07/11/08. I have also installed some generic drivers from this forum and all of them present the same problem. I cannot connect to my Belkin N+ router on an N network, only on a G. If I set my router to N only then the network can be seen but not connected to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 As other post what model Dell ? Also Atheros doesn't make a AR5009 ? Went from AR5008 to the AR92xx Also they made a AR5B91 (wonder if this is considered a AR5009) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchwa Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 My laptop is a Dell Studio XPS 13, 4 gig ram, 128 SSD and the Geforce hybrid graphics. If you say they never made an AR5009 then why do the drivers say it is that, I have attached an image from my device manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchwa Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 (edited) I have just opened up the laptop and taken the card out and the part number is AR5BHB92 and then is says 5ghz. I have checked onlice and found this http://certifications.wi-fi.org/pdf_certif...php?cid=WFA6109 which confirms that it is an N card. All very strange..... Edited February 15, 2009 by churchwa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Driver version is 1.0.0.7 which means that Atheros have made a different card to the 500x and 9xx0 cards. The 5009 must be a completly new card and the 7.6.x.xxx drivers aren't going to work Wonder why this is, all strange now. Will do some investigating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 I've got the Dell WLAN 1515 down as a Broadcom 94322 chipset see front page post I did a few days ago. I see the AR5BHB92 is a half height card to compete with the Broadcom 94322 card and fit in the Studio range. Wonder if it's a half height version of the AR5BB91 ? Can you send me the drive to donate@laptopvideo2go.com ? Just zip up the files or at least the INF file if you know where it is. you may need to search the INF dir a subdir of windows and look inside the OEMxx.inf's for the Atheros inf A text search for AR5009 should narrow it down quickly. Will be interesting to see the INF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 The AR5009 is the same as the AR928x but a half height version. They have the same PCI_ID as the 928x. What you could do for me also is try this driver ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp39001-39500/sp39403.exe It's the HP/Compaq driver for the AR5009, quite an old driver now. But if this works for you all the better. can't see any reason why the newer drivers here wouldn't work either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Will this fix my problem too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Can't hurt to try Keep in mind the above driver link is for Vista only. I've lost track of who's who with which OS :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 He is running 32bit Windows 7 and I am running x64 Vista Bussiness and Windows 7. Will attempt to install this driver when I get a chance probably sometime this evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 He is running 32bit Windows 7 and I am running x64 Vista Bussiness and Windows 7. Will attempt to install this driver when I get a chance probably sometime this evening. Driver should work for both Vista and Win 7 BTW its version 7.6.0.114 for those that need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Dell version 7.6.0.168 is here: Vista x86/x64 http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R198377.exe slightly newer than the HP one and support the AR5009/AR5BH92 but dell call it WLAN 1515 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 The HP one didn't even install the driver or anything just created a folder in program files with a bunch of folders/files in it and then when I try manually install the HP driver it says it's not compatible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Yeah I was unable to install either of these drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Tried the manual 'UPdate driver' in device Manager, the installer may check to see if you have a Dell or HP/Compaq. These 2 drivers should work as they are specially released for the half height cards only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Yeah thats the issue not got no Dell/HP :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Yeah thats the issue not got no Dell/HP :) If that didn't work then I'm out of ideas :P Did at least work out what you guys have. Seems odd that these notebooks have an adaptor that doesn't really work. Could diagnose it if I had a card so if anyone gives up on theirs :) Ofcourse, their going to have a hard time to get a replacement card, Broadcom make a half height card based on the 94322 chipset. There are a few on ebay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchwa Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I will give these ideas a try tononign and tomorrow I will be getting a replacement card to see if that helps at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchwa Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I tried installing the AR928x driver, no joy. I get the same G signal. Looking forward to trying the new card they deliver tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 If that didn't work then I'm out of ideas :) Did at least work out what you guys have. Seems odd that these notebooks have an adaptor that doesn't really work. Could diagnose it if I had a card so if anyone gives up on theirs :) Ofcourse, their going to have a hard time to get a replacement card, Broadcom make a half height card based on the 94322 chipset. There are a few on ebay How much you reckon it would cost to send a wifi card from Wellington to Mount Cook? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 What's the cost of a postage stamp and envelope ? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 lol 40 cents steal a envelope, and bubblewrap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchwa Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ok, so I think I am a fool. Apparently you have to set encryption to WPA2 in order to get a high speed N connection. Which I have now done, and BANG i have high speed wireless. Please check your existing wireless settings as if you set your router to WPA + WPA2 it will jump on the WPA connection because of your old settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ok, so I think I am a fool.Apparently you have to set encryption to WPA2 in order to get a high speed N connection. Which I have now done, and BANG i have high speed wireless. Please check your existing wireless settings as if you set your router to WPA + WPA2 it will jump on the WPA connection because of your old settings. WPA should also work with 11n I've had it working But then again I had my router set to WPA/WPA2 Auto setting so it may have used WAP2 anyway as all my devices are WPA2 capable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_ Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) Didnt help for me EDIT: Ok slight lie. It appears when I re installed Windows 7 again I didn't update to the latest Driver. So now latest driver WPA2 and 300mbs :) :) :P :unsure: :w00t: Edited February 24, 2009 by Jake_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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