HP Mini 210 Windows 7 32bit Broadcom 4313 wireless fix, maybe.

[khk_87]

Sorry my khk1987 was lost it's password. I used Paretologic Driver Cure 1.5 - not a freeware though.

[stevetilsed]

Has anyone actually found a solution for this? Or can they confirm it worked out the box with windows 7 starter? I upgraded my laptop to windows 7 professional right out of the box only to walk straight into this problem.

Tried every fix in this post and more to no avail. Rolled my system back to windows 7 starter to no avail. Of course no physical discs supplied to recovery to original settings.

Please can someone help shed some light on this.

Steve

[nattwutxp]

i've tried already but still running at 72 Mbps :mansad:

[Daniel_Potyrala]

Hi,

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nattwutxp wrote:

i've tried already but still running at 72 Mbps :mansad:

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For Broadcom 4313 this is maximum and you can't get more. It's a single stream card which use 20 MHz channel widith.

This type of products support a maximum connection rate between 65 -72 Mbps.

[darylmackay]

Had the same problem. Upgraded to Windows 7 32bit. Windows say the wifi adapter but didn't know what it was. The drivers from the HP Mini 210 support page didn't work. I did find a solution.

Try this driver. It's not identified as being for the Mini 210, but it is for Broadcom WiFi. It solved my problem.

Website: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&softwareitem=ob-86003-1

Driver download:   sp49541.exe

[sincityres]

I have a Compaq Presario CQ 62 running windows 7 64 bit. I haven't upgraded it at all. This is just straight out of the box.  I've had nothing but problems with the wireless almost from the beginning.  I have wireless and it works just great with my ipod but it goes in and out on the computer every day.  I don't have the broadcom thing though.  I have Realtek WiFi Adapter and Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter.  I have internet connection but it shows that I'm not logged in to a network.  If I turn off my WLAN. I wait about 10 seconds and then turn it back on. Then I'm good for another couple of hours before it goes out.

Driving me crazy. I'm still in warranty until July but I'm hoping HP will finally do something about it!

[walward]

I have an HP Mini 210 and loaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.  I cannot get my wireless card to find networks.  I updated the broadcom driver and loaded wirelesss attendent and still it does not work.  Can somebody help me?

[canikickit]

I solved the problem by replacing wireless card from my previous laptop ASUS. Because after two weeks no success in trying to make broadcom work. There was a second slot for mini pci-e so my older wireless card fited there and works. So problem is in hardware of broadcom card. only issue i have that starting my mini in bios mesage pops out that i have no wireless card...

[shadow_lmd]

I just got a ProBook 4720s with this awesome wifi card. Here, it can see all wireless networks but cannot connect to mine. After having 2 hours of fun checking different driver settings in Windows 7 I gave up and booted Ubuntu 10.04.2. It didn't connect as well first, but after few tries it managed to connect finally. It reported connection speed as 1 Mb/s where all my other wifi cards connect at stable 130 Mbit. Obviously, this wifi card is a trash. Good job, HP.

Update: I finally managed to get it working. Spent another few hours playing around with options on driver's advanced page. This is what I have now:

802.11n Preamble: Mixed Mode (this is a must if you are in mixed g/n network)

Afterburner: Disabled (not sure about this)

AP Compatibility Mode: Higher Performance (I have a standards-compliant router)

Bluetooth Collaboration: Disable (everything started working right after I disabled this one)

BT-AMP: Disabled (not sure about this)

Mixed Cell Support: Disabled (this is not needed for typical wifi networks)

XPress (TM) Technology: Disabled (not sure, this is something for g performance)

Rest options are at default values. I'm using a driver shipped via Windows Update.

[henryg04]

This is the driver that worked for me on a Windows XP pro install (I downgraded my HP Mini 210-2177NR from Windows 7 Started to XP Pro.  Hope it helps someone out ...

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp47501-48000/sp47891.exe

If you cannot download the exe below from your browser, use an FTP client and browse to that location ...