PhishThis!

While doing some work for a client recently, I needed to reinstall Vista. She had Home Premium, but needed to be able to RDP. So, she purchased Business, and I did a clean reinstall on her Hewlett Packard Pavilion Elite m9402f. Sidenote: I was pretty impressed with the machine overall. Quad core Phenom, 8GB of RAM, Asus motherboard. Then again, it’s only 2 weeks old, so who knows what might happen.

I was able to install all of the nVidia forceware drivers, and the HP site just pointed me to older versions of them, which I prefer. I don’t like re-package/branded crap.

No matter what I installed, I couldn’t get the wireless driver to install. The driver page (Here) was no help. No wireless. The labels on the riser card itself had some stuff printed on it, but Google and HPs website turned up nothing. I searched for about an hour before I took the card out and saw “WN7600R” stamped on the PCB. A quick Google search returned this:

http://certifications.wi-fi.org/pdf_certificate.php?cid=WFA6846

I guess it’s a Lite-On. A little more searching Google (about 30 minutes worth, finding nothing), let me to an old copy of the Lite-On wireless driver, which eventually let to this: The HP Hewlett Packard Pavilion Elite m9402f Vista 64 bit Wireless Card Driver.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=pv-60719-1&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=2100&product=3771771