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From: Yvon on 5 Apr 2010 18:29 My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card for an "N" card. It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net. The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if it take only a week. My question is: Is this something we can fix ourself? Or is it on soldered on the mother board? Thank you Yvon
From: RnR on 5 Apr 2010 21:10 On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:29:31 -0700 (PDT), Yvon <yvongravel(a)gmail.com> wrote: >My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card >for an "N" card. >It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install >it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right >now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net. >The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if >it take only a week. >My question is: >Is this something we can fix ourself? >Or is it on soldered on the mother board? > >Thank you > >Yvon > You said that it doesn't work any more. Can you explain how it worked wihen it did work? Were you using "n" std (protocol) then? N is a fairly new standard so I'm wondering if your router has this capability? Bear in mind that draft N std is not the same as N std. The first two things that come to my mind if it worked on N before is first to reboot. If no luck, try taking down the firewall just to see if it works then. There are more things to check but at this point, just keep us posted.
From: Yvon on 5 Apr 2010 23:11 On Apr 5, 9:10 pm, "RnR" <rnrte...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:29:31 -0700 (PDT), Yvon <yvongra...(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > >My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card > >for an "N" card. > >It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install > >it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right > >now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net. > >The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if > >it take only a week. > >My question is: > >Is this something we can fix ourself? > >Or is it on soldered on the mother board? > > >Thank you > > >Yvon > > You said that it doesn't work any more. Can you explain how it > worked wihen it did work? Were you using "n" std (protocol) then? > N is a fairly new standard so I'm wondering if your router has this > capability? Bear in mind that draft N std is not the same as N std. > > The first two things that come to my mind if it worked on N before is > first to reboot. If no luck, try taking down the firewall just to > see if it works then. There are more things to check but at this > point, just keep us posted. Thank you for your help. It was working with the N protocole before, I am using an Apple airport extreme as a router. The router work fine, the problem is not there. I did try to reset the modem and the router just in case and it didn't help. I tried to reboot, update the driver, format etc... Nothing work so far.
From: Ron Hardin on 5 Apr 2010 23:15 Yvon wrote: > > My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card > for an "N" card. > It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install > it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right > now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net. > The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if > it take only a week. > My question is: > Is this something we can fix ourself? > Or is it on soldered on the mother board? > > Thank you > > Yvon The wireless card just unplugs like a HD; and there are 3 clip-on wires for the antenna, which connect to 2 or 3 places on the card as well, depending on the card (stowing the 3rd if not needed). Look up the manual for the laptop on the dell site. My experience was with a Vostro laptop, which has a handy access door for the thing. -- rhhardin(a)mindspring.com On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
From: Ron Hardin on 5 Apr 2010 23:22
Another thing to try is let windows control the card rather than the dell utility. Find the utility in start/programs and check the box to let windows run it instead. -- rhhardin(a)mindspring.com On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |