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[degaon]

I cannot get an Acer A0531h Chromebook to hook up to my WiFi adaptor. Keeps trying to get net address.

The WiFi light blinks and when I I turn it on it shows the icon on the screen as ON.

I have installed other usb wifi adaptors/antennaes and get the same results.

There is nothing I see in the boot screen that shows that the wifi is disabled or not

What can I do to get wifi going ????

Please help

[Joshua188]

WiFi adapter to not work with any chrome OS units at this time. 

[degaon]

Sorry - I do not quite understand your response.

This Acer is using Microsoft XP (not a Chrome OS) and as with all other XP units I have , you can install a DLink/Linksys/... wireless adaptor (what I called a wifi adaptor) and it works.

In this Acer, I installed the device properly, they show the wireless symbol but IT IS NOT CONNECTED.

Something is trying to get a network address but it ends up with a 0.0.0.0 address.

I have re-installed the Atheros AR5007EG Wirelwss Network Adaptor driver - no help

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[Kickster]

....You don't have a Chromebook....You have a Netbook !