Windows 7 - Netbook cannot connect to wireless or straight to modem
I've returned to Windows 7 Home Premium after looking at Linux OSs and XP and cannot get a wireless or wired connection. I have an Acer Aspire One D255. It's a netbook and comes with wifi. When I reinstalled W7, the only icon that relates to a connection is described as a box with a red "X" in the bottom corner right and a wire going straight up on the left side, which I don't remember as long as I have used W7 (but then again I always had a connection.) So I click on the foreign icon and there is, of course, no connection. I troubleshoot it and windows tells me that it does not detect a properly installed network adapter (when I click on next it says that Windows cannot find a driver for my network adapter). I spent the rest of the day searching for drivers for Acer D255 but none of the drivers fixed it. I then tried to hook the laptop straight up to the modem, hoping that I could get the included software on W7 to fix the driver, but there is no reaction when I plug it in (probably from lack of a driver?). I truly do not know what to do I checked the Acer site for drivers, none worked. I used my Google-fu, nada. So, does anyone have any ideas as to what is wrong or solutions? I'd greatly appreciate it.
February 14th, 2011 11:28pm

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