Originally Posted by JMJNet
Originally Posted by ZZman
Windows 10 installed but I ended up not having wifi or lan connections. Gateway has no updated drivers so I went back to W 7......
What is the spec of the Gateway computer? in terms of CPU, etc.
Gateway, as a company, has been merged with Acer a long time ago.
lol, this topic so full of replies that crack me up!
No concern at all is needed for what CPU, etc is in it, just the specific network controller device IDs. For anything nonfunctional, go into Device Manager and get the Device IDs (right click on the adapter -> Properties -> Details (tab) -> (Property) "Hardware IDs" and copy down the DEV & SUBSYS ID strings, then web search those to identify them, then go to the respective chipset manufacturer for the driver. For example an NV55C appears to use Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet Driver
, though Gateway offers more than one wifi chipset on those so getting the Dev ID narrows it down to one.
The other way to do it is get the old driver from gateway (linked below) and look at the files in them to ID the chipset, then get it from that brand's site download webpage, but then you have to try all 3 till one works if you don't ID from the Device ID # in Device Mgr. or have another way - one other way is look at what Win7 shows for them in a working state.
http://www.gateway.com/gw/en/US/content/drivers-downloads
Enter product model NV55C, then you'll see Atheros, Broadcom, and Realtek wifi drivers at the bottom of the list. Again these are not meant to be the working Win10 drivers, just an aid to identify what you have if you choose that method instead of the other 2 methods that are preferred when possible which they should be since you have Win7 running again.
Then again, I wouldn't have advised to switch an old laptop to Win10 in the first place. MS ending Win7 support does not mean the sky is falling.