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PraveenBhamidipati
Friends,
I have a Dell netbook that used to run WinXP. Wireless networking used to work fine. I have upgraded its memory and hard disk to ensure that Win8 requirements are met and I installed Win8.
Everything else (display, wired networking, audio & sdcard reader) works fine, except wireless. The driver seems to have installed without any errors, but I can seem to access the wireless device.
My device is: Broadcom BCM431X 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller
To ensure that there is nothing wrong with the hardware, I ran a Ubuntu liveusb and things just work fine. For some reason, I am unable to get wireless working in Win8 (like I said, wireless worked just fine in WinXP).
Here are some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/pxqkb
My problem is that I can't get wireless adapter to do things viz. scan of 802.11 access points. When I pull up the charms bar, the networking icon reads: 'Unavailable'.
The output of ipconfig on my machine looks like:
-START-
C:\Users\bpraveen>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
C:\Users\bpraveen>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : BeePC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
--END--
Looks like the device driver is installed, but something else is wrong with the control of the Broadcom wireless adapter.
How can I debug this further? Any tools that I can download to probe and get additional logs?
Thanks,
Praveen
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I have a Dell netbook that used to run WinXP. Wireless networking used to work fine. I have upgraded its memory and hard disk to ensure that Win8 requirements are met and I installed Win8.
Everything else (display, wired networking, audio & sdcard reader) works fine, except wireless. The driver seems to have installed without any errors, but I can seem to access the wireless device.
My device is: Broadcom BCM431X 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller
To ensure that there is nothing wrong with the hardware, I ran a Ubuntu liveusb and things just work fine. For some reason, I am unable to get wireless working in Win8 (like I said, wireless worked just fine in WinXP).
Here are some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/pxqkb
My problem is that I can't get wireless adapter to do things viz. scan of 802.11 access points. When I pull up the charms bar, the networking icon reads: 'Unavailable'.
The output of ipconfig on my machine looks like:
-START-
C:\Users\bpraveen>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
C:\Users\bpraveen>ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : BeePC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Ethernet adapter Ethernet:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-XX
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
--END--
Looks like the device driver is installed, but something else is wrong with the control of the Broadcom wireless adapter.
How can I debug this further? Any tools that I can download to probe and get additional logs?
Thanks,
Praveen
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