Acer Aspire 3690 LAN/Network issues

The driver file formats are not excuteable thats why you cannot open files to install lan drivers. its so funny the way broadcom done it.

Just go here... (= http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_3690.html

You can get this driver, and any others, form the Acer site:
http://us.acer.com/
Follow the "notebooks" link.

You did say you drivers are bust and cant connect to the internet..
Ok no big deal...
1.March yourself down to your local electronics store buy a 1gb thumb drive.
2. Go to your local library stick in thumb drive and down load the drivers.
3. go to your machine and install drivers from thumb drive
4. Configure your machine
5 enjoy

U have install broadcom GigaLan Drives in your system. after u have start the setting of wireless LAN.
By. Network Operator (Mahesh Chauhan)

** Still Same Not Able To Enabale Wifi In Aspire 3690 ** I have my Acer Aspire 3690 i reinstalled the WinXp i installed the wifi card it seems to work but it doesn`t. I go to enable wifi it says enabled, however it stays disable and i cant use it. I bought another wifi card that one doing the same !! Is There Any Solution I Couldn`t Found Any !

The original one is Broadcom BCM94211MCG
The second one what i just bought is a Gigabyte GN-WS50G Atheros AR5007 chipset minicard mP

Thnx .. two total differnt both of them doing a same thing , one more thing originally its came with Windows Vista (it sucks on a weak computer like that even if i extended the ram) so now its running with WinXP .

I emailed acer--was told to get drivers from maker of device.

You will need to reinstall the LAN driver. Go to Start >Control Panel > System >Hardware >Device Manager and select the LAN network card to reinstall the driver with. If you don't have the disk, then use the wireless connection to access the internet and search for the driver to download.

I found the network drivers on acer europe site.

Assuming that the LAN cable connection and Broadcom drivers were all valid and working. Then perhaps the wrong firewall setting may have caused the connection to fail.
I experienced the same problem where the wireless worked fine while the LAN did not. Through trial and error in searching and changing various network settings, I came across the Computer Associate firewall software package had the Broadcom 440x bit assigned to 'Restricted', comparing to the 802.11g where its at 'Safe'. Thus blocking the LAN while allowing the wireless access to the internet. This may also be applicable to other firewall software packages.
If you have the same CA firewall, then just step through the following to see if that would do the trick:
Access CA Personal Firewall => Firewall (button on the left) => Zones tab => Zone Assignment
Then find the 440x and right click to change its assignment from 'Restricted' to 'Safe' to restore LAN access.
If you have the same CA firewall, then just step through the following to see if that will fix the trouble:
Access CA Personal Firewall => Firewall (button on the left) => Zones tab => Zone Assignment
Then find the 440x and right click to change its assignment from 'Restricted' to 'Safe' to restore LAN access.