Notebooks & Netbooks

[norm73]

Acer Aspire 5250 - The wireless connection is working but when I plug in to use the wired connection the computer continues to connect wirelessly. 

Also, in Device Manager it says Ethernet Controller driver is missing and Update Driver cannot find one.

Thanks for any help,

Norman

[IronFly]

double click on you ethernet controller with missing drivers, go to "details" tab, choose "hardwareIDs" from drop down menu.

then click on the first value, copy/paste here.

[norm73]

PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_2062&SUBSYS_06021025&REV_C1

[IronFly]

Go here:

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers/3677;-;Aspire%205250

choose your OS and download Atheros LAN drivers.

[norm73]

Thank you, that fixed it.

I had a problem along the way in that the computer did not know how to unzip.  I manually assigned Windows Explorer to handle .zip files but I do not understand why that was not automatically set up by Windows.

Thanks again,

Norman

[IronFly]

I can suggest to use 7z for zip, rar etc etc

very powerfull and totally free.

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html