Posted on 06/07/2010 6:07:24 AM PDT by 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.
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
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
Check your drivers. Same thing happened to me and it was the wireless card driver.
Is the switch on?
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.
Probably drivers, or you need to manually configure your SSID & encryption.
Look in Device Manager to see if your wireless device is recognized. If not, you’ll have to install, set up the drivers.
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
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.
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.
The wireless driver does not get installed automatically. You need to get it from Dell or the resource disc.
Wireless board crapped out....needs new one
Ok going to check drivers..
Ok going to check drivers..
Can’t find that switch.
‘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.
Have you called Geek Squad?
LOL, just kidding, all of the best answers were already posted here.
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