First of all, listing the filenames of the drivers isn't too helpful. Although I could spend 10 minutes trying to match filenames with drivers, I would much appreciate it if you would do this. Did you install the chipset drivers as the first drivers installed after the reinstallation of Windows? Windows will not recognize or not be able to install devices connected to the motherboard until the chipset drivers are installed.
First, thanks for the quick reply. Yes I did install the chipset over fresh windows but did it again now for good measure. As usual windwos came up saying that it found a "Network Controller" but then could not find drivers for it.
The files I installed are supposed to be for the range of Dell WLAN card 1300,1350,1400,1450 etc.The difference in the downloads is just country dependant.
The file R90507 is the one for all countries except US and Japan.It appears that the drivers can not be extracted or something, because when I try to install the drivers using "Have Disk" and point to the two, bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5a.inf, it complains that the files do not hold information about my device, These file appear in the directory to which I extracted the R90507.
Is there more information about these drivers or extractes files I could supply you ?
It sounds to me like you are not following the instructions correctly to load the drivers. Near the bottom of the download page for each of those files is a set of instructions for installing the drivers - see for example this page:
The way you describe the installation, it sounds like you are trying to install through Device Manager rather than just running the unzipped installation file.
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March 10th, 2005 13:00
First of all, listing the filenames of the drivers isn't too helpful. Although I could spend 10 minutes trying to match filenames with drivers, I would much appreciate it if you would do this. Did you install the chipset drivers as the first drivers installed after the reinstallation of Windows? Windows will not recognize or not be able to install devices connected to the motherboard until the chipset drivers are installed.
Steve
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March 10th, 2005 16:00
Steve
First, thanks for the quick reply. Yes I did install the chipset over fresh windows but did it again now for good measure. As usual windwos came up saying that it found a "Network Controller" but then could not find drivers for it.
The files I installed are supposed to be for the range of Dell WLAN card 1300,1350,1400,1450 etc.The difference in the downloads is just country dependant.
The file R90507 is the one for all countries except US and Japan.It appears that the drivers can not be extracted or something, because when I try to install the drivers using "Have Disk" and point to the two, bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5a.inf, it complains that the files do not hold information about my device, These file appear in the directory to which I extracted the R90507.
Is there more information about these drivers or extractes files I could supply you ?
Many thanks again
volcano11
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March 10th, 2005 20:00
It sounds to me like you are not following the instructions correctly to load the drivers. Near the bottom of the download page for each of those files is a set of instructions for installing the drivers - see for example this page:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R90507&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_8500&category=5&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=4394&devlib=5&fileid=117985
Are you following those instructions?
Steve
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March 11th, 2005 10:00
volcano11
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March 11th, 2005 12:00
The way you describe the installation, it sounds like you are trying to install through Device Manager rather than just running the unzipped installation file.
Steve
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March 11th, 2005 14:00