sheeplover Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I bought the Dell Wireless PCI-Express-Mini-Card with the Broadcom 4311 Chipset. This card was supposed to work as Airport-Card. Unfortunately it isn't working at all. Now I want to find out if this happens because of a somewhat damaged card of of an incompatibility with my laptop. I use an Acer 9411-100 17" CoreDuo. The card installed prior to the broadcom was an IntelProWireless 3945ABG, manufactured by Anatel. Now, installed the BRoadcom/Dell card, the wireless-button doesn't work. It says no device. As I read across some websites this button is bound to a specific hardware and can not work with different cards. Fine. But, the new card isn't even recognized through the system. So I found a thread here that told me to block pin 20 that is used to trigger the transmitters status. Did that - no results. No I read something about a whitelist of hardware stored right into the bios of the laptop. If this is true, can please someone tell me if there's a way to flash a modified or original bios to the laptop so it will not block hardware anymore? And if there is a way, is there someone you knows it specificly for Acer brands? EDIT: I forgot to mention that a driver install doesn't work also. I think this is quite clear - no recognition through vista/xp - no installation. I have to drivers, one from dell, the other one from lenovo. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58067-acer-9411-100-dw-1390-little-help-from-the-hardware-cracks-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bemac Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I just received my dell DW1390 card and am staring at the same "no information found" for network and thus no wifi. I thought this would solve my, your and others' problems ... but I'm thinking Acer is throwing a curve ball. Might have to try to get in touch with them? Under the pitch of an upgrade to a pci-e card that is n-compatible??? To learn more about what goes on internally. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58067-acer-9411-100-dw-1390-little-help-from-the-hardware-cracks-please/#findComment-414947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted July 27, 2007 Author Share Posted July 27, 2007 I still believe that there might be a way to enter a "full" bios on the Acer 9411 ... the one you can see only lets you choose date, time and boot order options. Does any one now of a key combo to "unlock" settings there? (like CTRL + F1 for OC-Settings on many mainboards) Might be a clue... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58067-acer-9411-100-dw-1390-little-help-from-the-hardware-cracks-please/#findComment-415875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeplover Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Doesn't have anybody a clue on this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58067-acer-9411-100-dw-1390-little-help-from-the-hardware-cracks-please/#findComment-419782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 There are already several threads discussing problems with this card. To boil things down, the problem does not appear to be the card, but the mini-PCI Express bus. For more in-depth information see this thread. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58067-acer-9411-100-dw-1390-little-help-from-the-hardware-cracks-please/#findComment-419810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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