A friend of mine wanted to downgrade his Dell Vostro A840 laptop from Windows Vista Starter Edition to Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. So after he made a backup of his data, we wiped out the drive to install Windows XP. We used nLite to create a new a new ISO with the latest Intel chipset drives, just to make sure it would detect the hard disk controller, and I threw in the Ethernet drivers as well.
After the system came up I was able to able to install drivers for most of the hardware, but the wireless network interface card just wouldn't show up no matter which driver I tried. Everything I read said this was a Dell Wireless 1395 or 1397 card, but the drivers just wouldn't work.
Turned out that the wireless card in this particular model (perhaps because it's for Latin America, even though I used the Service Tag to confirm the hardware) was an Atheos wireless card and needed the driver in the Dell package R194080 to work (ftp.dell.com/comm/R194080.exe). This took me about 26 hours before I could resolve it. Hopefully it will save someone else a lot of time.
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I was facing the same problem, and your solution worked like magic, thanks so much:)
Olá.
Eu sou brasileiro e fiz questão de escrever em meu idioma para você saber que mesmo nós sendo de nacionalidade distinstas podemos ajudar uns aos outros com compartilhamento de experiências, muito obrigado! Ótima dica.
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I´m from Brazil too and your tip help me so much. Great job guy, so many thanks!
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