Problem installing Intel 6235 Drivers

[Slick5150]

I did a fresh install of Windows on my notebook w/ an Intel Centrino 6235 Wireless-N + Bluetooth card. Problem is, I can't get Windows to recognize the card now or get Intel's drivers to install.

The card just shows up as a "Network Adapter" under "Other Devices" in Device Manager and there's also a generic USB host listed there (the bluetooth part of the card I assume)? Running Windows' driver update provides no results, and when I download the drivers from Intel it installs their wireless software and assumingly the drivers as well, but the card still isn't recognized.

I've tried pointing Windows to the install folder manually as well and that yields no results.

Any ideas?

 

[frowertr]

The obvious but is the card on? Windows may not see it if the card is off. Sometimes I hit the on/off switch by accident on my wife's laptop without knowing it.

How did you re-install Windows? Did you use your manufacturers recovery disk? That should have all the appropriate drivers as well.

 

[Slick5150]

No, I don't have a recovery disk. I was just using a general Windows 7 Home Premium disc.

Windows sees the card is there as SOMEthing as it shows up in device manager as a "network adapter" but it refuses to use the drivers I've downloaded and windows update doesn't find anything either.

 

[D.SKiLL]

No, I don't have a recovery disk. I was just using a general Windows 7 Home Premium disc.

Windows sees the card is there as SOMEthing as it shows up in device manager as a "network adapter" but it refuses to use the drivers I've downloaded and windows update doesn't find anything either.

sounds like a bad download from Intel. i had this happen to recently. I would choose the device in device manager & right click, then uninstall it. then reboot and install a different download driver set. if that doesn't work,, you can try forcing the driver via device manager.
heres a link to the newest driver set for that card:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...-N+6235&DownloadType=Software+Applicationseng

 

[RU482]

I did a fresh install of Windows on my notebook w/ an Intel Centrino 6235 Wireless-N + Bluetooth card. Problem is, I can't get Windows to recognize the card now or get Intel's drivers to install.

The card just shows up as a "Network Adapter" under "Other Devices" in Device Manager and there's also a generic USB host listed there (the bluetooth part of the card I assume)? Running Windows' driver update provides no results, and when I download the drivers from Intel it installs their wireless software and assumingly the drivers as well, but the card still isn't recognized.

I've tried pointing Windows to the install folder manually as well and that yields no results.

Any ideas?

Not sure if this applies to you, but here is my insight....

I had some engineering samples of the 6235WLAN module early on. I forget which version of the Intel ProSet wireless Driver, I think when they switched from 14.x to 15.x, I could no longer load the driver, or something similar to what you are experiencing. I had a contact at intel I was working with, mentioned the issue on QuAD, and low and behold, they replaced all the engineering samples, and the problem went away.

PM me, I can loan you a known good 6235 to see if a new module resolves the issue.

Any chance you could snap a picture of the label on the card?

 

[remixedcat]

completely uninstall and reinstall

first download this:

http://treexy.com/products/driver-fusion

will clean up drivers that can't be completely removed using mfr utilities or windows.

then remove the drivers using the uninstall method in windows....

then use the above program to remove the drivers completely.


then reinstall the latest drivers of the card.


Hope this helps.