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June 6th, 2012 21:00

Wireless Internet Missing

Hey all

I bought a used Alienware Aurora and I did a clean windows install.  I installed all the drivers through my serial code but I still can't seem to find out how to get my wireless internet up.  In my device manager under network adapters I have tree items: (1) Blue tooth Device (Perxonal Area Network)  (2) Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) and (3) Broadcom Netlink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet.  It says my drivers for all three are up to date.  I assumed the thrid on the list was my wifi card but seeing as I didn't buy the machine new there is a chance it might not have wireless capabilties.  I find that odd, but I wanted to run it by the forums to see if there was anything I was just plain missing.

Thanks for the help.

 

8 Wizard

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June 6th, 2012 21:00

The 2 BlueTooth are, you guessed it ... for BlueTooth (not WiFi).

Broadcom Gigabit is the real ethernet cable port (wired).

8 Wizard

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June 6th, 2012 21:00

Drivers are here:

en.community.dell.com/.../19451814.aspx

If nothing is !-Yellow in Device Manager, all drivers are loaded.

What makes you think our Aurora has WiFi (they usually don't).

A real ethernet cable is better anyway (just saying).

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