Giraffe Dung Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 i fixed my mate's laptop, it needed a complete reformat etc and i ended up putting xp on because they hadn't got a vista copy to hand and i thought it would run faster. it does run faster, quite a bit, but it took absolutely fucking ages and some sherlock holmes standard detective work to get all the drivers without them having a restore disk or emachines having any hint that the laptop even exists on their website. i've now got everything, except wireless. the system is an emachines esystem 3115. fortunately my mate's brother has the same laptop and the device is called a ralink mini card wireless adapter. the only mini card ralink do is the rt2501u according to their website, but they don't have a driver for that model number. i can't remember quite how but i got a wlan.rar file with the vista drivers, but they don't work with xp. i did install some drivers which appeared to work, iirc it was from advice someone had been given on a forum that came up on google. it finds the device and installs it, but acts weird. the windows zero config utility doesn't work, and it's pot luck whether it will appear in network devices or not. the ralink software finds networks, and even uplinks to my mate's network, but won't receive an ip. i am guessing it's the wrong driver, basically. it took 11 hours to find all the stuff and i was knackered by the end of it and i can't remember all the details. this is the ralink driver page: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Windows.html and looking at that, for some reason i think i installed the second driver down and can't think why. i am going round tonight and will probably try the fourth down as it is mPCI and rt2500, which is quite close to rt2501u (how scientific). does anyone have any advice though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Apple will be using the above post as their next advert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraffe Dung Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 microsoft will be using the above post as their next advert. it's going to be called 'nobody likes a smug cunt' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Send an email to the manufacturer of the laptop. They must have drivers for it. Apple will be using the above post as their next advert.Yeah, better that post than the first two Chris made in this thread: - http://www.digitalvertigo.co.uk/forum/inde...showtopic=24502 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraffe Dung Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 cheers steve, i should have already done that i suppose hehe. i have an annoying feeling that they only have vista drivers and that's how i ended up with that wlan file from somewhere on the site, but i will find out tonight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-Se7en Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 sure i've got the driver, but it's at work, will have a look tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wax On Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 microsoft will be using the above post as their next advert. it's going to be called 'nobody likes a smug cunt' FLOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraffe Dung Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 ah cheers dub that would be smashin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 microsoft will be using the above post as their next advert. it's going to be called 'nobody likes a smug cunt'Yeah but you lurve the smug cunt who's sending you a MASCHINE soon enough right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giraffe Dung Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 Yeah but you lurve the smug cunt who's sending you a MASCHINE soon enough right? goes without saying boss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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