The Raspberry Pi Thread [5]

I really wish Pimoroni would post some info on their new Enviro + pHat. I'm especially interested in the light sensor. I'm hopeing it will measure the UV index.
All I've seen is that no so good Bildge Tank Video and a little tease on Twitter. I was expecting it to show up in the New Products section by now?
A replacement for my sense hat would be cool. providing it does what I want. The BME280 will give temp, humidity, and pressure, all i really want. I'm not all that interested in the air quality bit. All depends on how easy it is to set up and code. Might make a nice fart detector lol.

So far today, and its still early its been,
I've been working on my neighbors laptop since yesterday. An HP running Vista. Tried to upgrade it to Windows 10 but Vista isn't supported for that. So I tried upgrading it to Windows 7. Won't let me go from Vista Home Premium to 7 Pro. Had to start over with a 7 Home Premium ISO. It upgraded but Windows update errors out. Known issue, I have to download a specific KB update and apply it manually to fix it. I have all her stuff backed up and could do a clean install if it comes to that. I'd normally prefer it over an upgrade but don't want to leave her having to reinstall a bunch of programs. I may do it anyway, it is running a bit slow, might be some other weirdness going on too?
Then on top of that, one of my Motion Eye cameras decided it didn't want to talk to my WIFI anymore? I get on average one a month that just quits for no reason? They just stop working, the (status) lights are on but nobodies home?
Just finished reimaging it and setting it up again. I keep telling myself, make a backup image, but don't.

I think this will be the last one I do for family or friends. Other than what we have here in the house. Its just a PITA these days. I'm actually dreading the day I have to redo my wife's laptop from scratch with a clean install. I'm not even sure what build its on? I think it shipped with windows 7? It was that of maybe Vista? I took all the stickers off log ago lol.

I think the way it goes for most OEM's is, did said device ship with that OS from the factory? If no, no support is offered for that OS. My laptop shipped with Windows 8 and thats pretty well the only drivers I can find for it on its support page. One or two Windows 8.1 drivers and no Windows 10 drivers. Luckily it shares common hardware with some latter models that shipped with Windows 10. Near as I can tell anyway, I get what I need via Windows update and just about everything works. I think there is one special function key that doesn't work, WIFI on off or trackpad on off, don't remeber which one it is?
This laptop is almost done, just did 189 updates via Windows update, just need to run it again and again until it says all up to date. Already got a popup saying Windows 7 support is ending lol. Installed by one of the updates. Ignoring it for now.

Have a look see in device manager for a descriptor etc for that WIFI chip. If you can figure out what model it is you may be able to find a driver from its manufacturer.

caperjack said:

yeah i did that ,said no new drivers ,,i think the laptop came with win8 and i upgraded to win10,, device manager says broadcom 802.11 abgn wireless SDIO adapter
broadcom shows newest is 2016,, https://www.catalog.update.microsoft...com+802.11abgn

I tried to install that drive and it says latest drive all ready installed

Yeah, OK, was worth a try. One thing that kind of annoys me about Windows 10. Automatic driver updates often replace your manually installed working driver with a newer one that does not work.
So far so good for me, knock on wood, the windows update supplied drivers work OK for me. I haven't had to go manually looking for one in a long time.

That laptop is still updating. Every time I manually run Windows update it finds more updates. A couple of failed ones in there too. I'm not going to look at those until it finally doesn't find any new ones.