acer aspire 5020 broadcom wlan card

Hey Guys,
I have an "Acer Aspire 5020" and installed Vista Beta 2 successfully. It seems to be no problem to get drivers for my hardware - components and everything's doing fine. But when I tried to get my Broadcom-BuiltIn-Wireless-Card (802.11b) running won't work. I have installed the Acer LaunchManager and the Atheros Driver but nothing happens.
Can anyone help?
Greets NeoX2K5

Hey Guys,
I have an "Acer Aspire 5020" and installed Vista Beta 2 successfully. It seems to be no problem to get drivers for my hardware - components and everything's doing fine. But when I tried to get my Broadcom-BuiltIn-Wireless-Card (802.11b) running won't work. I have installed the Acer LaunchManager and the Atheros Driver but nothing happens.
Can anyone help?
Greets NeoX2K5

I also have an Acer Aspire 5020 and recently installed Vista x64 but cannot get the drivers for the network adapter to install. Did you install the 64-bit version of Vista, and if so, how did you get the network adapter driver to install correctly?
-Mark Henney
"NeoX2K5" wrote in message

Hey Guys,
I have an "Acer Aspire 5020" and installed Vista Beta 2 successfully. It seems to be no problem to get drivers for my hardware - components and everything's doing fine. But when I tried to get my Broadcom-BuiltIn-Wireless-Card (802.11b) running won't work. I have installed the Acer LaunchManager and the Atheros Driver but nothing happens.
Can anyone help?
Greets NeoX2K5

I too have the same problem. It seems that the problem is related to the magic hotkey.sys file. I have managed to get the keys at the top of the computer functioning. I.e. (that's an unfortunate pun :)) the internet, e-mail etc.
I think it's going to be a case of contacting acer for an upgrade. As in a normal installation the hotkey.sys file sits in c:\windows\system32\ directory. Doing a bit of jiggery pokery and copying the file into there does not work.
Also checked to see if changing the permissions on running the sys file might help, but alas, no. :(
"NeoX2K5" wrote:

Hey Guys,
I have an "Acer Aspire 5020" and installed Vista Beta 2 successfully. It seems to be no problem to get drivers for my hardware - components and everything's doing fine. But when I tried to get my Broadcom-BuiltIn-Wireless-Card (802.11b) running won't work. I have installed the Acer LaunchManager and the Atheros Driver but nothing happens.
Can anyone help?
Greets NeoX2K5