Invisible wrote:

> FAIL.
> 
> (Seriously... why the hell would HP issue a driver that you can't use? 
> That's just silly.)

Well, Acer went one better.

When you go to their website and select the model of laptop you have, 
they give you THE WRONG DRIVERS. o_O

Select "Notebook". Select "TravelMate". Select "250"... oh, it isn't 
there. Enable "Show all models". Now it's there. Select it, and there 
are all the drivers.

Wait. The TravelMate 250 doesn't have an ATI graphics card. It's Intel. WTF?

Turns out you have to do something silly like select the TravelMate 270 
to get the right graphics driver. And then select the TravelMate 240 to 
get the correct LAN driver. And then select some other model to get the 
correct audio driver.

In other words, the catalogue of which driver belongs to which laptop is 
basically screwed. Thanks Acer, that's really helpful.

Now I'm nerdy enough to know what I'm doing, but I wonder how many poor 
clueless n00bs are completely baffled by the fact that the driver 
they're given BLATENTLY DOESN'T WORK...

Also, I was stupid enough to try to make the wireless card work. BIG 
MISTAKE! You see, while Windows Update was able to install the correct 
wireless driver, it can't detect any networks. "Make sure your wireless 
card is turned on" it says. So I press the wireless button on the laptop.

And nothing happens.

In particular, the button doesn't light up. So it looks worryingly like 
this is controlled in software rather than hardware as it should be. 
Which means I need to somehow figure out which friggin' driver controls 
it, and which model its misclassified under on the Acer website...

Or I could just plug in an Ethernet cable. :-P

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