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fivegyrls2

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December 27th, 2005 21:00

inspiron B130; wireless card

i have a brand new Inspiron B130, and i used to have an older Latitude laptop. I have a verizon wireless PC card, model 5740 which has fit into every laptop it has been tried in...in my new B130, there appears to be a section of where my card would slide into that has a black plastic insert and it won't allow my card to make the connection...i don't want to force the card into the slot. can anyone tell me, is there a specific wireless card for these new laptops?

angel0704

5 Posts

January 11th, 2006 22:00

i thought i needed the card and i called dell tech support and they told me i didnt need a card because this particular model has it built in. It just needs to be "activated" and they had to help me with that. 

Easttexasdragon

2 Posts

February 13th, 2006 03:00

I too are having a similar problem. I just bought a Verizon Wireless card( PC 5740) Popped out the little dust cover on the wireless card slot on my B130 slide the card in till it stopped, made sure it was locked, It was snug but the eject button would not kick it out. But it would not go in any more, and I didn't want to force it. My problem is that windows didn't see it. I spent 3 hours on the phone with Verizon tech support. We tried all kinds of things still nothing worked, so they called Dell Support. It took an hour before someone came to the phone. He took down all the information put us on hold THEN we got Disconnected.....I had now been on the phone for 5 hours, The Verizon Tech had to go answer other calls and we gave up for now. I'm going to try Dell again Monday morning. 

The dragon:smiley wink:

Keith

Oh let me know if you found out anything

angel0704

5 Posts

February 13th, 2006 11:00

Do you have Verizon Cable Modem??  If so i dont see why you would  need any extra wireless cards...the B130 has built in wireless that connects with the built in wireless capabilities of the Verizon Modem.  I didn't have to do anything extra except call Verizon to ask them how to "activate" this wireless capability which just was about me checking a box in my computer to let it know I am using wireless.  If you have dial up then I dont know what to tell you.

Easttexasdragon

2 Posts

February 13th, 2006 17:00

Hello friend

My B130 didn't come with a wireless card, Verizon is offering broadband for laptops where you can go anywhere and still be connected. Using a Wireless card PC 5740 the problem I just found out is that the B130 doesn't support any PCMCIA cards anymore. They have progressed to something called a wireless express card. Which is listed in the users manual

ExpressCard

ExpressCard controller                                                                   ICH6M

ExpressCard connector                                                                one ExpressCard slot 54 mm

Cards supported                                                                              ExpressCard/34 (34 mm) and

                                                                                                              ExpressCard/54 (54 mm)

                                                                                                             1.5 V and 3.3 V

ExpressCard connector size                                                        28 pins

and dell isn't going to release the express cards until March 15 2006. So until then I'm stuck with dial up.

Thanks for responding

Keith

OritionX

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April 7th, 2006 20:00

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