Thank you very, very much! I especially appreciate the links to the specific drivers you are talking about.
However, still not working- I will post my experiance with each of the scenarios. I hope it's just something stupid that I'm missing and someone can help me out....
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The WLAN Broadcom Win8 64 Ver 63022364 yeilds the following:
Running Setup yeilds:
Setup Error
The operating system is not supported.
The software will not be installed.
Setup will now exit.
Update Driver software / Naviagting to the drivers folder yeilds:
Windows could not find drivers software for your device.
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The WLAN Broadcom Win7 64 ver 6305991 yeilds the following:
Running Setup:
Original Posted problem, yellow exclamation mark in device manager (device can not start (code 10)) in status
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The Atheros AR8171 Win8 64 Lan Driver 21017 yeilds the following:
Running Setup yeilds:
Network controller is shown under Other Devices with a yellow exclamation mark
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The DR PCE AC66 6309526 shows the most promise, but after I Update Driver and navigate to them, It looks ok in the device manager, but always shows as disabled. I've been unable to enable or get anything out of diagnostics to work etc.
Have you led me a hundred miles and I'm stopping inches short?
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Of course there have been MANY reboots, uninstalls, reinstalls, updates etc.
Any ideas are VERY appreciated...