Hi Guys,
Got given a HP Pavilion DV4000 from a friend who said it was busted, i've replaced the harddrive and ram and have got it working.
Last night i installed a lite version of XP with sp3 built in. It installed perfectly in under 10 minutes. However i cannot get the wireless to work.
I downloaded and installed the drivers from the HP website and this allowed me to turn the wireless on and i get the little bubble in the bottom left corner saying there are wireless networks in range, however if i click the balloon and it searches for wireless it cannot find any, even though the router is right next to it.
After about a hour of playing around trying to get it working, i downloaded another driver pack from the HP website and this included a wireless application (i think it was HP Wireless assistant, but i can confirm that later today). With the application running i can find wireless connections, but the actual wiress adapter still cannot find any.
When using the software to connect to the wireless it allows me to enter the wpa key and the windows connection says its a bridge network but it never makes it passed authencation.
Obviously the drivers are still wrong.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Nick
Got given a HP Pavilion DV4000 from a friend who said it was busted, i've replaced the harddrive and ram and have got it working.
Last night i installed a lite version of XP with sp3 built in. It installed perfectly in under 10 minutes. However i cannot get the wireless to work.
I downloaded and installed the drivers from the HP website and this allowed me to turn the wireless on and i get the little bubble in the bottom left corner saying there are wireless networks in range, however if i click the balloon and it searches for wireless it cannot find any, even though the router is right next to it.
After about a hour of playing around trying to get it working, i downloaded another driver pack from the HP website and this included a wireless application (i think it was HP Wireless assistant, but i can confirm that later today). With the application running i can find wireless connections, but the actual wiress adapter still cannot find any.
When using the software to connect to the wireless it allows me to enter the wpa key and the windows connection says its a bridge network but it never makes it passed authencation.
Obviously the drivers are still wrong.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Nick