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Vodafone Mobile Broadband Dongle - Device Manager Shows My Modem As Unknown Device

mattcool09
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Recently I have noticed in device manager my dongle is coming up as unknown device, I know it's the dongle because I uninstalled the unknown device thing and plugged the dongle back in then it came back as unknown device.

Does anyone have any solutions for this?

Many thanks

P.S. If it's any help I'm running windows 7.
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Retired-James
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Hi nmattcool09,

To be honest this would normally indicate that there was a driver instalation issue when the modem was installed, if you load up the computer manager, and expand the lists under device manager and Universal Serial BUS controllers with the modem plugged in, you will probably see the modem listed with a yellow icon next to it, if you right click this icon and select update drivers it will usually resolve this for you.

Alternatively, uninstall it again and re install it using a different USB port.

Give this a go and let us know how you get on and if you are having any connection issues.

James
eForum Team