Looking for HP Pavilion DV9000 network wifi driver

[ninjafanky]

Hello, I have an HP Pavilion DV9715nr laptop with Windows vista 64 bit home premium installed.

4104A-ARBXB63H is the model of the wifi card.

I need to find the drivers but they are nowhere in the internet

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You need this driver for that model Wi-Fi adapter:

Atheros 2011 Wireless LAN Driver 

9.2.0.444

sp54972.exe

[ninjafanky]

When i installed this, it told me something about an ethernet driver being installed and then two separate prompts, one looking for drivers for unknown device and the other for ethernet controller, i tried multiple times through device manager to install them by pointing to both the atheros directory for driver created in program files AND the files that the sp54972.exe extracts however nothing is installing me a driver for the wifi

[ninjafanky]

Also everytime the pc boots up it tells me new hardware is detected and gives those same two prompts. Happens whenever i rerun the installer aswell.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You need this driver for the ethernet controller:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp37501-38000/sp37730.exe 

Post the hardware ID's for any of the devices needing drivers including the wifi adapter which should be labeled as a Network Controller.

Use this guide for how to find the hardware ID for a device:

How to Find Drivers for Unknown Devices in the Device Manager

[ninjafanky]

The sp37730 is the wrong file, its nvidia nforce driver which i already installed (through usb file transfer).

As i said, I need wifi drivers. Not ethernet. I dont use ethernet.

Anyway, prior to driver installation of sp54972.exe, there are two ethernet controllers with missing drivers in device manager. Installing the driver takes care of one of them, and in my network adapters i now have Atheros AR5007 wifi adapter, yet still no wifi capability from the laptop.

Here are all the Other devices:

Ethernet controller

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_054C&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_054C&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_054C&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_054C&CC_0200

Base System Device 1
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_12
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&CC_088000
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0592&CC_0880

Base System Device 2
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_12
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&CC_088000
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0843&CC_0880

Base System Device 3
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0852&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_12
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0852&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0852&CC_088000
PCI\VEN_1180&DEV_0852&CC_0880

Coprocessor
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0543&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0543&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0543&CC_0B4000
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0543&CC_0B40

SM Bus Controller
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0542&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0542&SUBSYS_30CF103C
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0542&CC_0C0500
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0542&CC_0C05

Unknown device 1
ACPI\HPQ0007
*HPQ0007

Unknown device 2
HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CF&REV_1000
HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CF

[ninjafanky]

Wow i cant believe it i just flipped the physical wifi switch on the laptop and it works... thanks.. yet i still have all of these no driver devices so idk

[Paul_Tikkanen]

 You're very welcome.

sp37730 is not the wrong file.

The nForce chipset driver will install:

Ethernet controller

Coprocessor

SM Bus Controller

You need this driver for the Base System Devices:

sp45112.exe

I believe that you need this driver for the ACPI\HPQ0007:

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49104.exe

I believe that you need this driver for the HDAUDIO\FUNC_02&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp40001-40500/sp40170.exe