Dell wireless

BenJ

BenJ

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I've got a Dell Vostro 1710 and a Dell wirless 1350 card.

The laptop came with Vista 32 bit, I have done a fresh install of Windows 7 64 bit

Ethernet works, wireless dosent. It's as if the wireless is disabled but the little slider on the side of the laptop is in the on position.

I've updated the drivers on the wireless.

Can't get the damn thing to pick up the wireless network or any wireless network for that and there are definetly four in range as my other laptop and phone pick them up.

Any ideas chaps?
 
I dont know if it will help or not but I had a had a customer with a packard bell laptop a while ago with a similar issue. I uninstalled the drivers removed the wifi card then booted windows, then shut down again. I popped the card back in booted windows and reinstalled the driver.
 
Update: Have fresh installed windows 7 pro 64 bit and it's still saying not connected and not giving me a list of any wireless networks

I have uninstalled the driver, it reinstalls automatically when I reboot. (don't have a screwdriver handy ATM to remove the card)

The drivers on the dell website are only for 32 bit windows xp / 32 windows vista because windows 7 didn't exist when the laptop was released I guess. Is anyone able to find the correct drivers I need???

Thanks
 
Have you tried to install in compatibility mode?using the Vista driver or maybe the XP driver?
According to the dell wbsite that lappy does not have the card you listed fitted as standard.Have you swapped it ?or hare you trying to install the wrong drivers?
If so maybe worth considering a replacement card from the bay :) One that has W7 64 bit drivers and is known to be compatible with both your Dell lappy and W7 64 bit :)
 
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They install ok so I would have thought the compatibility mode would be useless.

I was guessing the drivers were not compatible with windows 7
 
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