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By: The Ji Village News » HP DV6253cl laptop wireless not working

The Ji Village News » HP DV6253cl laptop wireless not working — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:51:44 +0000

[...] As mentioned here, I bought a HP dv6253cl (AMD Turion 64 dual core) laptop around April, 2007. Up to about a month ago, it worked all right, with the wireless indicator on with blue color. Then it stopped working. If memory serves, I think it stopped working after installing Windows Update. The wireless light is always orange nowadays. [...]

By: ali

ali — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:28:43 +0000

thank you!!!!!!! Frank Berm for the driver hp webcam it s working

By: ali

ali — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:28:38 +0000

thank you!!!!!!! Frank Berm for the driver hp webcam it s working

By: john

john — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:23:09 +0000

just kidding, found out that it was a virtual drive program keeping it from recognizing my REAL dvd drive. sorry folks.

By: john

john — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:53:30 +0000

I just got rid of vista on my dv6253cl and put xp pro on it, and I seem to have got all the drivers I needed, but the dvd burner won’t burn, it seems the drivers xp gave it are only for a dvd read only drive, not a burner. anyone know where to get the burner drivers for it?

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:20:24 +0000

Sweeeeet!

It worked for Skype also. Thanks a bunch Frank!

By: Frank Berm

Frank Berm — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:59:57 +0000

Well, well . Looks like I found a solution.

I found this thread about someone having trouble with a HP pavilion webcam on a forum:

http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?s=a0ef1bd1ddc60226d964a106e3d7c0c2&showtopic=31194&pid=305803&st=20&#entry305803

Halfway down the thread someone posted a solution for Vista (seems like they are XP drivers), so I gave them a try. I downloaded this:

http://zxon.notnet.co.uk/b3ta/driver.zip

There are 2 exe files on that zip, I gave the 32-bit one a try, and voilá!

I have only tested the webcam with MSN live messenger and the HP tool for the webcam. Don’t know if it works on Skype, because I don’t use it.

The driver seems safe, but it would never hurt to give it a virus scan just in case. (I used NOD32).

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:19:21 +0000

Glad it helped, Frank.

If you want to give Linux a go, my experience is that Fedora Core should work. I installed Fedora Core 2 on my 10-year old desktop, and it worked fine. Suse may also work.

Good luck. And let me know when you figure out the webcam thing

By: Frank Berm

Frank Berm — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:52:07 +0000

I am typing this comment on a HP dv6253cl running Windows XP. I also got the Vista nightmare, and ripped it out, not even leaving the “restore” partition. I sure wished I saw this post before I went looking all over the web for the XP drivers.

My webcam didn’t work under Vista, and it doesn’t work under XP. I got into the tech support chat with an HP tech, but he blamed Vista for the mess up with the webcam. Let’s see them blame XP for the lack of support for their built in hardware.

Overall, it’s a very nice laptop altogether. I was planning to install Ubuntu, but since you had trouble with it, I guess I will skip that.

Very informative blog post, thanks.

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:08:44 +0000

Hah, bite – bit – bitten. I should have known this. In fact, one component of my brain gave a warning about the word during the composition of this piece, but I chose to ignore. Thanks! It has been corrected. Likewise, I was puzzled by the non-inclusion of virtualization in Firefox dictionary.

Yes, in my opinion, Vista is definitely a step back. The only positive I will say about Vista is the built-in DVD burning ability, if you have DVD burning drive. Now I need to hunt around for free DVD burning software on XP.

No problem, I don’t think this is rant at all. I learned something from it.