Acer Aspire 3023 Problem enabling "radio" for built in broadcom wi

> Hi,
>
> I have an Acer Aspire 3023 which has a built in broadcom 802.11g wireless
> card. The driver is installed by Vista during setup and shows correctly in
> the device manager but I cannot activate the antenna.
>
> There is a button on the front of the laptop which is used to switch on the
> antenna but when I run the troubleshooter and it asks me to turn the antenna
> on all I get is a beep when I press the antenna button.
>
> I have tried the XP driver and its a no go, I have also tried to install
> acer's launchmanager software which (on XP) enables the wireless at startup,
> this also fails to run.
>
> I went into the drivers settings to see if there was a "radio on/off"
> setting but the options in the driver are pretty sparse with no settings
> relating to the antenna.
>
> I used a PCMCIA wireless card and this runs perfectly but I realy want to
> use the built in card.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris

>I got the same problem with my Acer Aspire 5022WLMi and i still found no
> solution, too... :-( Would be happy if someone helped!
>
> "Chris" wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an Acer Aspire 3023 which has a built in broadcom 802.11g wireless
>> card. The driver is installed by Vista during setup and shows correctly
>> in
>> the device manager but I cannot activate the antenna.
>>
>> There is a button on the front of the laptop which is used to switch on
>> the
>> antenna but when I run the troubleshooter and it asks me to turn the
>> antenna
>> on all I get is a beep when I press the antenna button.
>>
>> I have tried the XP driver and its a no go, I have also tried to install
>> acer's launchmanager software which (on XP) enables the wireless at
>> startup,
>> this also fails to run.
>>
>> I went into the drivers settings to see if there was a "radio on/off"
>> setting but the options in the driver are pretty sparse with no settings
>> relating to the antenna.
>>
>> I used a PCMCIA wireless card and this runs perfectly but I realy want to
>> use the built in card.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chris

>Hi,
>
>I've seen a post somewhere on here about installing the eManager software in
>compatibility mode - but I had no joy.
>
>Anyone got any ideas yet? I don't know how long this USB wireless device is
>going to survive.
>
>Simon
>
>
>"Christian" <Christian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:2587E6C5-7C64-46C9-9479-B9921069CDC4@microsoft.com...

>>I got the same problem with my Acer Aspire 5022WLMi and i still found no
>> solution, too... :-( Would be happy if someone helped!
>>
>> "Chris" wrote:
>>

>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an Acer Aspire 3023 which has a built in broadcom 802.11g wireless
>>> card. The driver is installed by Vista during setup and shows correctly
>>> in
>>> the device manager but I cannot activate the antenna.
>>>
>>> There is a button on the front of the laptop which is used to switch on
>>> the
>>> antenna but when I run the troubleshooter and it asks me to turn the
>>> antenna
>>> on all I get is a beep when I press the antenna button.
>>>
>>> I have tried the XP driver and its a no go, I have also tried to install
>>> acer's launchmanager software which (on XP) enables the wireless at
>>> startup,
>>> this also fails to run.
>>>
>>> I went into the drivers settings to see if there was a "radio on/off"
>>> setting but the options in the driver are pretty sparse with no settings
>>> relating to the antenna.
>>>
>>> I used a PCMCIA wireless card and this runs perfectly but I realy want to
>>> use the built in card.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Chris

>I installed the eManager software for my Ferrari 4000 running as an
> administrator AND with Server 2003 compatibility mode. After a reboot,
> the hardware buttons for bluetooth and the built in broadcom wireless
> LAN worked fine. also make certain that the device is not disabled in
> device manager.
>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:59:54 +0100, "Simon Byrne"
> <siy_b@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>

>>Hi,
>>
>>I've seen a post somewhere on here about installing the eManager software
>>in
>>compatibility mode - but I had no joy.
>>
>>Anyone got any ideas yet? I don't know how long this USB wireless device
>>is
>>going to survive.
>>
>>Simon
>>
>>
>>"Christian" <Christian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:2587E6C5-7C64-46C9-9479-B9921069CDC4@microsoft.com...

>>>I got the same problem with my Acer Aspire 5022WLMi and i still found no
>>> solution, too... :-( Would be happy if someone helped!
>>>
>>> "Chris" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have an Acer Aspire 3023 which has a built in broadcom 802.11g
>>>> wireless
>>>> card. The driver is installed by Vista during setup and shows
>>>> correctly
>>>> in
>>>> the device manager but I cannot activate the antenna.
>>>>
>>>> There is a button on the front of the laptop which is used to switch on
>>>> the
>>>> antenna but when I run the troubleshooter and it asks me to turn the
>>>> antenna
>>>> on all I get is a beep when I press the antenna button.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried the XP driver and its a no go, I have also tried to
>>>> install
>>>> acer's launchmanager software which (on XP) enables the wireless at
>>>> startup,
>>>> this also fails to run.
>>>>
>>>> I went into the drivers settings to see if there was a "radio on/off"
>>>> setting but the options in the driver are pretty sparse with no
>>>> settings
>>>> relating to the antenna.
>>>>
>>>> I used a PCMCIA wireless card and this runs perfectly but I realy want
>>>> to
>>>> use the built in card.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Chris