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Having wireless trouble with My Dell laptop(vanity)

Posted on 06/07/2010 6:07:24 AM PDT by GregB

I have reinstalled XP Pro and can't hookup via wireless


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: c610; computer; dell; laptop; wireless
I can get on via hard wire but no wireless.
1 posted on 06/07/2010 6:07:24 AM PDT by GregB
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To: GregB

Is the wireless driver loaded? The last two Dell machines I reloaded, I had trouble locating which actual wireless device was installed as the Dell software didn’t do a good job picking it up or installing the driver at all.


2 posted on 06/07/2010 6:09:38 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (What do Snap-On and Obama have in common? They're both tools.)
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To: GregB

My brother bought it used an dput in XP Home to make sure it worked and I put in my own XP Pro and had wireless working.
Dell Latitude 1 GIG mgz
256 memory
20 gig HDD
XP Pro


3 posted on 06/07/2010 6:10:21 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: GregB

My brother bought it used an dput in XP Home to make sure it worked and I put in my own XP Pro and had wireless working.
Dell Latitude 1 GIG mgz
256 memory
20 gig HDD
XP Pro


4 posted on 06/07/2010 6:10:21 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: GregB

Check your drivers. Same thing happened to me and it was the wireless card driver.


5 posted on 06/07/2010 6:10:28 AM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: GregB

Is the switch on?


6 posted on 06/07/2010 6:12:53 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

The driver is almost certainly your problem. Drove me crazy until I figured that out. The drivers are on the Dell utilities disk, but they are hard to find. As I recall, I found them in the files for the Dell Connection Manager. I had to install this application to get the drivers and then later uninstalled Dell Connection Manager which I found to be a very annoying little program.


7 posted on 06/07/2010 6:13:01 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: GregB

Probably drivers, or you need to manually configure your SSID & encryption.


8 posted on 06/07/2010 6:13:10 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: GregB

Look in Device Manager to see if your wireless device is recognized. If not, you’ll have to install, set up the drivers.


9 posted on 06/07/2010 6:13:35 AM PDT by bcsco (Steven Chu: Obama's chu chu brain...)
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To: GregB

If you reloaded from the factory restore disc, you’ll probably need to load the drivers from a second disc labeled “system resources” or the like. Alternately drivers can be downloaded from www.dell.com


10 posted on 06/07/2010 6:13:47 AM PDT by GCC Catholic (0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
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To: GregB

obvious question first, is it turned on?, there is probably a switch on the side.

also, go to network connections, in control panel, see if there is an icon for wireless, is it enabled?

also in control panel, check the system icon, go to hardware tab, then device manager, then network manager, see if the wireless shows up there.

could be hardware failure but if you’re lucky its either turned off, needs to be re-enabled or re-installed.


11 posted on 06/07/2010 6:14:58 AM PDT by tm61 (somewhere in chicago, a ward is missing it's crook)
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To: GregB

Also check to see if you have one of those ‘buttons’ that power on your wireless adapter. Sometimes those things get pushed, disabling the adapter.


12 posted on 06/07/2010 6:15:00 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: GregB
Make sure the switch did not get bumped?


13 posted on 06/07/2010 6:15:28 AM PDT by Ingtar (If he could have taxed it, Obama's hole would have been plugged by now.)
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To: GregB

The wireless driver does not get installed automatically. You need to get it from Dell or the resource disc.


14 posted on 06/07/2010 6:19:31 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (What do Snap-On and Obama have in common? They're both tools.)
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To: GregB

Wireless board crapped out....needs new one


15 posted on 06/07/2010 6:19:34 AM PDT by databoss
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To: tgusa

Ok going to check drivers..


16 posted on 06/07/2010 6:20:51 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: tgusa

Ok going to check drivers..


17 posted on 06/07/2010 6:20:51 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: Ingtar

Can’t find that switch.


18 posted on 06/07/2010 6:25:16 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: centurion316

‘then later uninstalled Dell Connection Manager which I found to be a very annoying little program.”

its a PITA. Has to be the worse application I’ve ever received on a pre-built computer.


19 posted on 06/07/2010 6:26:45 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GregB

Have you called Geek Squad?

LOL, just kidding, all of the best answers were already posted here.


20 posted on 06/07/2010 6:28:43 AM PDT by SirFishalot
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To: GregB

It might not be on yours, but it is something to check if it is. Drivers are more likely, as others have pointed out from a position of more familiarity than I have.


21 posted on 06/07/2010 6:30:11 AM PDT by Ingtar (If he could have taxed it, Obama's hole would have been plugged by now.)
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Bookmark for later.


22 posted on 06/07/2010 6:34:14 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: GregB

Right click on “My Computer”, select “Manage”. When that comes up, on the left side of the screen, select “Device Manager”. On the right, you’ll see all devices, including your network connections. Identify the wireless card. You’ll need to install the driver. If you have it on an available CD, great. Click on the network card and select Update Driver. If you don’t have a CD, you’ll have to get to another computer, get online, go to Dell’s Web site, download the driver to a pen drive, then plug the pen drive into your laptop. You can update/install the driver from the pen drive. Hope this helps.


23 posted on 06/07/2010 6:36:00 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: GregB

I had problems with my wireless with heat issues with my laptop running xp. I removed the battery and ran it with the plug only. I put it on a laptop cooling stand, and I added a pcmcia driven wireless network card. These steps worked so well, that once I took out my wireless card, the old internal wireless network started working again with the cooling changes. The pcmcia card is half in/half out and away from processor so that will work, too. Try any of these until you get back. Oh, if you use a pcmcia card, or usb network card, turn off the wireless internal network card.


24 posted on 06/07/2010 6:39:37 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: GregB

Get a MAC


25 posted on 06/07/2010 6:44:48 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Ingtar

You have made my day - week - month!!!!!!! Since at least November I have not been able to get internet on my laptop so I just have to sit in my home office on the PC to get online. I have spent hours trying to figure out what went wrong - my laptop was next to my chair in the living room and my children and grandson all used it when they came over. It stopped working on one of their visits and I haven’t had the extra money to take it to someone.

I didn’t even KNOW that there was a little switch on the side. I just found it and turned it on and I AM BACK ON LINE!!!

Yeah!


26 posted on 06/07/2010 6:48:28 AM PDT by Just A Reader
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To: GregB

my Dell doesn’t have a switch, the top row on my keyboard has a wireless icon. It took me a long time to find it, but that’s where it is.


27 posted on 06/07/2010 6:51:43 AM PDT by tazannie
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To: Just A Reader

I’m pleased to have been able to help someone. My Monday just took a turn for the better.


28 posted on 06/07/2010 6:56:19 AM PDT by Ingtar (If he could have taxed it, Obama's hole would have been plugged by now.)
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To: GregB

Get the Service Tag from the back of the laptop. Go to support.dell.com. Click on the “Drivers and Downloads” icon (approximately center upper page). Enter your Service Tag, make sure you select the correct operating system and browse for the Network group. Download and install the wireless driver(s).

If you did not use a Dell driver disk, then you should at minimum, also download and install the chipset drivers. Actually you should do that first :-)

My experience with laptops is that they do much better with the vendor provided drivers as opposed to the Windows provided drivers.


29 posted on 06/07/2010 7:02:42 AM PDT by Roses0508
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To: Ingtar
SO DID MINE!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been wracking my brain for months trying to figure out what one of them did!
I never knew there was a switch on the side! This will make evenings bareable again - so that I can keep friend company while she watches tv and I can read FreeRepublic.
30 posted on 06/07/2010 7:19:18 AM PDT by Just A Reader
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To: GregB
OK first step... what do you see under device manager?
31 posted on 06/07/2010 7:29:40 AM PDT by tophat9000 (It ain't about Black... It ain't about White...It's about a Red...Trying to take our rights!)
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To: GregB
I have this issue every time with every Dell laptop I set up.

Solution:

Look on the back of your laptop for the Service Tag number.
Go here, enter your Service Tag number and download the Wireless adapter driver from Dell.
Install the driver by double clicking on the executable you downloaded. It will create a directory in C:\Dell that will have a number like "R76521" as the name. In there, double click on the Setup.exe file and that will install the driver for your laptop's wireless adapter.
Reboot the machine and the rest you should know how to do by right clicking on the wireless icon in the System Tray.

32 posted on 06/07/2010 8:01:37 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can only get smarter by engaging a smarter opponent.)
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To: tm61

THANK YOU!!!!!!! I had trouble on a recent trip and when I went to use my wireless, all of a sudden the “wireless radio” wouldn’t turn on. Nothing worked, so I finally went out and got a USB wireless card, which has been failing, not to mention taking up my one USB 2 port. I never knew about the switch. I flipped it and BINGO! I have my wireless back. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 06/07/2010 8:11:03 AM PDT by Bookwoman ("...and I am unanimous in this..")
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To: GregB
Having wireless trouble with My Dell laptop
I have reinstalled XP Pro

Where to begin.

34 posted on 06/07/2010 8:17:32 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

I have reinstalled XP Pro and control panel network connection I found the wireless connection which said enabled no net so I hit repair and I got an error it said can’t renew IP address 169.254.112.157


35 posted on 06/07/2010 8:27:00 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: martin_fierro

I have reinstalled XP Pro and control panel network connection I found the wireless connection which said enabled no net so I hit repair and I got an error it said can’t renew IP address 169.254.112.157


36 posted on 06/07/2010 8:27:00 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: GregB

I had changed over to a newer Westell router and I just dragged out the old one and hooked it up and I am on. Any ideas as to why the new one does not work? Thanks for all the help!!


37 posted on 06/07/2010 8:52:18 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: GregB
Hard wire up to the web, go to dell tech support , put in your service code and it will list the drivers necessary , download the proper one and your in business
38 posted on 06/07/2010 9:15:39 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Bookwoman

hi, glad to hear its working,


39 posted on 06/07/2010 10:24:13 AM PDT by tm61 (somewhere in chicago, a ward is missing it's crook)
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To: tm61

The one I am using is 4 years old and the newer one is mabye one. The older Westell router works but not the newer. Puzzling. Thanks to all for your help!!


40 posted on 06/07/2010 11:28:11 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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To: tm61

The one I am using is 4 years old and the newer one is mabye one. The older Westell router works but not the newer. Puzzling. Thanks to all for your help!!


41 posted on 06/07/2010 11:28:11 AM PDT by GregB (Sarah Palin The Next President Of The United States!!!!)
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