DV-7 WiMAX driver missing

[jhalv27]

I found it!

I had to dig deep within the HP drivers folder. It was the Intel WiMAX driver. It must be a specialized driver and software because it has Best Buy written all over on the application plus it installed a Best Buy Connect icon on my desktop.

I appreciate all your help, David!

[DavidPK]

Hi,

Your welcome and good to hear you've got it sorted out

All the best,

DP-K

[lancej29]

JHalv27,

Can you tell me exactly where you found the WiMax driver?  I have the same computer and, after installing Win7 from a new DVD (restore was not working), I am having this exact problem with the WiFi driver.  I am using a different hard drive in the laptop and I can mount/browse the original drive in another computer.

DP-K, if you are seeing this, I decided to take your advice and try a fresh Win7 installation -- at least temporarily and on a spare drive.  Everything was going smoothly (if a little tedious from all the individual driver downloads) until I hit the WiMAX driver.

Thanks,

Lance

[jhalv27]

This was where the setup application was hiding on my HDD.

Note: The "SWSetup" folder may be hidden.

\SWSetup\Drivers\MYWIMAXS\WiMAX\Intel\Win7\s64\Install - 64bit

\SWSetup\Drivers\MYWIMAXS\WiMAX\Intel\Win7\s32\Install - 32 bit

[lancej29]

Interesting. SWSetup is not hidden, but SWSetup\Drivers is empty.  But I found the folder MYWIMAXS directly under SWSetup. It does not appear to have the same tree you found under it, but it does have a Win7 directory with what looks like drivers.  I'm going to try is and let you know what happens.

[lancej29]

JHalv27,

This is very strange, but I would have sworn the MYWIMAXS folder didn't have the tree you described, but when I copied it to thumb drive to carry to the laptop, it did.  In any case.

I decided to install the driver using the device manager instead of the install program to avoid the extra crapware.  I navigated to the Win7\64 directory and the device manager recognized and installed the driver -- no extra software appears to have been installed. And I am now connected to my wireless network.

Thanks for the information.

Lancew

[jhalv27]

I'm glad to hear that you got that figured out. This missing driver wasn't causing me any issues other than the fact the missing driver was bothering me, OCD I guess.

[bambambam]

for any of those still looking for it... check out - http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/wireless/cwnw-6150

worked for the wimax 5120 too