how to download drivers?

Apologies if this is not the right forum for this question.

I have an older SMC wireless card for a laptop that I recently did a full
recovery. I had misplaced my CD that came with the card, so I downloaded
two possible drivers on to my desktop. But I can't figure how to download
them properly. Right now the card must be manually turned on/connected
before I browse, unlike before where whenever I turned on my computer, the
card was active - no manual intervention on my part was necessary.

Honestly, I'm not sure what makes it eventually work. It seems that I go to
the utility's Site Survey tab, double click my network on and then select
the default profile to make it work.

The driver seems to be where it's supposed to be among my drivers list.

I think I may have accidentally set up a network when I was trying to
download the drivers, though I've never had a home network. Could that be
interfering?

Any ideas as to what my problems may be?

Bob Griendling wrote:
> Apologies if this is not the right forum for this question.
>
> I have an older SMC wireless card for a laptop that I recently did a full
> recovery. I had misplaced my CD that came with the card, so I downloaded
> two possible drivers on to my desktop. But I can't figure how to download
> them properly. Right now the card must be manually turned on/connected
> before I browse, unlike before where whenever I turned on my computer, the
> card was active - no manual intervention on my part was necessary.
>
> Honestly, I'm not sure what makes it eventually work. It seems that I go to
> the utility's Site Survey tab, double click my network on and then select
> the default profile to make it work.
>
> The driver seems to be where it's supposed to be among my drivers list.
>
> I think I may have accidentally set up a network when I was trying to
> download the drivers, though I've never had a home network. Could that be
> interfering?
>
> Any ideas as to what my problems may be?
>
>

Your issues does not seem to have anything to do with downloading
drivers. It sounds as if you already *have* downloaded the drivers.

Rather, you seem to need information about how to *use* your SMC
wireless card. The best place for such info is the manufacturer's web
site -- which is presumably where you found the drivers.

If there is some other issue, such as why you think you might have
"accidentally set up a network" and why that might be a problem, you'll
have to be a lot clearer and provide much more detail before you'll be
able to get much help here.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking

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