For more than six months, my wifi card (Atheros AR5005G) had not been working. Device manager in both vista x86 and windows 7 x64 gave me code 12, the "not enough resources" error.
Google gave me links to several Microsoft websites, who authoritatively informed me that the problem is fixable by uninstalling the device's drivers, rebooting and reinstalling the device's drivers. This, of course, did not work.
Some forums recommend something on the lines of "Check the PCI allocation bus for conflicts" and similar weird alien-jargon–filled requests I have no idea how to do.
One forum member asks the inquirer to check if the card is in properly. A task I can do. So I decide to give the card a wiggle and, lo and behold, it worked. A wiggle. No fancy diagnostic and registry settings. A simple bloody wiggle.
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Sunday, 22 July 2012
Saturday, 21 July 2012
My mobile AP works!
I would like to help and give my solution, but not enough to go out of my way to register in a forum, so I'll be lazy and post on blogger and hope Google points stranded folk here!
To use the internet on my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2) I need to tether my phone (Samsung Galaxy mini) to it sharing the internet via WiFi. I am not with AT&T (which blocks tethering). In other phones "mobile AP" works a treat —in Gingerbread (Android 2.3) the option is in the silly bar that one has to drag down quickly like rolling blinds with a level of coordination beyond me.
In my phone which runs Froyo (2.2), it does not work: it connects, but no internet.
There are forums discussing this problem without avail. I stopped short of rooting my phone or updating to gingerbread.
I stopped because I got it to work. I remembered that the native internet browser did not work, hence my use of opera for browsing, so I googled that problem and the solution was simple: delete the APN of the mobile carrier and type it in manually. I did it and my browser works —but opera doesn't— and surprisingly so does my mobile AP.
Now my tablet can suck up all my data allowance via WiFi… as if its cost was not a problem enough.
To use the internet on my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2) I need to tether my phone (Samsung Galaxy mini) to it sharing the internet via WiFi. I am not with AT&T (which blocks tethering). In other phones "mobile AP" works a treat —in Gingerbread (Android 2.3) the option is in the silly bar that one has to drag down quickly like rolling blinds with a level of coordination beyond me.
In my phone which runs Froyo (2.2), it does not work: it connects, but no internet.
There are forums discussing this problem without avail. I stopped short of rooting my phone or updating to gingerbread.
I stopped because I got it to work. I remembered that the native internet browser did not work, hence my use of opera for browsing, so I googled that problem and the solution was simple: delete the APN of the mobile carrier and type it in manually. I did it and my browser works —but opera doesn't— and surprisingly so does my mobile AP.
Now my tablet can suck up all my data allowance via WiFi… as if its cost was not a problem enough.
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