Wireless network adapter

0x47

0x47

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Hey everyone,
If I have a piece of hardware and my computer cannot identify the exact model or manufacturer or type does that mean it's busted ?
I am pretty sure it is , but hell knows asking never hurts.

the thing is I have this old LG Xnote laptop , and the wifi adapter does what I described above.
I really hope I mistaken because I like this computer , it runs XP and I wouldn't be able to find it a new replacement (I like XP its obedient).

so what you think ?
 
XP won't have drivers for a lot of hardware. Check device manager to see if it shows any unknown hardware entries or any entries that have yellow question marks. Most likely you just need a driver installed.
 
Some laptops have the wireless adapter as a tiny inch square or so sized card inside of them plugged into a little slot. You could check to see if this is the case with your laptop and whether or not it came loose, reseating it may resolve the issue.
 
I solved the problem , wrong driver installed.
the funny thing is the driver installed was Realtek and the adapter it self is Intel.
it worked fine for 2 years (since I reinstalled windows), how is this even possible ?
 
I had two different WIFI adapters and I forgot to uninstall the last driver and it worked for the 2nd WIFI adapter. But I don't have good luck with those USB adapters at all. The laptop runs fine on WIFI though. Could be the router. I use a WRT54GL flashed with DD-WRT.
 
USB adapters work horrible ,at least used to (several years passed since I seen one).
I had like five of those and all of them worked like crap, I think it has something to do with the format (mechanical , RF modulation etc...).
USB supply voltage is 5V max vs PCI express that is 12v max , a very big deal when it comes to high-freq data transmission.
 
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