[Stratium]

Hello, I bought a Novatech X15GS pro laptop from novatech a few months ago. After many problems with the laptop, they discovered that they had bought a faulty batch of motherboards, and replaced mine. Ever since then my wireless card will not work.

The motherboard that is being used is a SiS M7X0SU, with a Realtek RTL8187b WLAN card inbuilt into the board. The problem that I am having is that the drivers that were included with the laptop do not work for this card, even though the drivers are for the exact same motherboard that is being used now, and the wireless card is exactly the same model. Upon turning the card on with the laptop hotkey, windows XP detects new hardware. Using the wizard does not help, nor does installing the realtek drivers from the CD or from realtek's website. Even after the drivers are installed, windows still asks for the drivers for the WLAN card and the drivers do not work.

Even more strange, windows sometimes detects the WLAN card as a USB WLAN device in the hardware manager...

Things I have tryed so far:
1) Installing drivers from the CD
2) Trying the latest Realtek drivers
3) Uninstalling the hardware using the device manager several times
4) Using third party software. I tryed the Asus WiFi-Ap Solo which DID work, and i was able to find networks with it, but the software is not very good.

Is there anybody else with similar problems with the RTL8187 WLAN card, or know of any drivers or software I can use instead of the official Realtek drivers?

Thanks, Stratium

[Stratium]

Sorry to bump, but windows detects the chipset WLAN card as "RTL8187 Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps USB 2.0 Network Adaptor", which is not correct. The device is not USB! Im running out of ideas, and i really dont want to have to format / buy a new wireless card. Anybody have any suggestions?

[JohnWill]

This clearly seems to be an issue for the Novatech support folks. Since they replaced the board and the new one apparently has issues, I'd be pressing them for a solution of another replacement MB.

[Frank4d]

I recently had the same problem with a Gateway laptop, with the same RTL8187B driver downloaded from Realtek. The solution in my case was to install the motherboard chipset drivers.

[Stratium]

Originally Posted by Frank4d

I recently had the same problem with a Gateway laptop, with the same RTL8187B driver downloaded from Realtek. The solution in my case was to install the motherboard chipset drivers.

Tryed to install from the CD, no joy. All the drivers install fine minus the WLAN drivers (which wont install at all from the autoexec launch window. Says it cant detect the card). Cant find any drivers from SiS either

Might phone Novatech up again, play merry hell with the first person to pick up the phone. Im not sending it back again though, the amount of times it's been returned