Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility & Windows 7

I upgraded to  Win 7 earlier this week and had several compadability issues. The disk never mentioned the WLAN Card issue tho. It seems to work like before EXCEPT the Diagnostics all "fail" even tho the utility does seem to work ok. No other input as of now.

Larry

im having the same trouble with my insprion 1318. how do i let windows manage the wireless connnection?

After reading the previous post, I decided to go ahead and uninstall the Dell Wlan card utility software. When Windows 7 started up, Windows automatically took over the connection. I didn't have to set it, it just came up as part of the set-up.

im having the same trouble with my insprion 1318. how do i let windows manage the wireless connnection?

Elmopoo, I don't have it installed so I can't give you exact instructions.  That said, you should be able to remove it like any other software via control panel.

After reading the previous post, I decided to go ahead and uninstall the Dell Wlan card utility software. When Windows 7 started up, Windows automatically took over the connection. I didn't have to set it, it just came up as part of the set-up.

I can confirm I did the same and all worked fine.

Thanks to NemesisDB

Glad it's working for everyone

Yes, thanks Nemesis.

I finished the install/upgrade last night and everything is working.

I tried to install the upgrade today.  When I uninstalled the WLAN Card Utility, I lost my internet connection.  That scared me so i quit and did a system restore.  So are you saying that I will lose my wireless internet connection, but if I finish with the upgrade I will get it back??  I am not that knowledgeable about what to do if I don't get wireless capability again, so I would rather not do the upgrade than take the risk unless I know it will be OK after the upgrade. 

Thanks for your help!

Yes, you will lose your internet connection when you agree to do the uninstall of the WLAN card utility software.

When Windows 7 boots up, it will automatically take over the wireless connection. You won't even need to re-enter your wireless network password (if you had it set to automatically log you on before, that is.)

OK so I decided to go ahead and go for it and this is the message I received:  The Removal of Dell Wireless WLAN Card cannot continue do to error code: 
C:\build\PBR_REL_5_10_38_30\win_external_wl\src\tools\install\app\bc\mwls\Update.cpp.58

Then another screen pops up saying "Dell wireless WLAN card uninstall has stopped working".

The Upgrade Assistant disc won't let me go any further.  I don't have a clue as to what to do next!

Thanks again!

It could be because the program is in use.

Two things to try. First boot into Safe mode and uninstall the utility there.

another option to try is to reinstall the program and then go into safe mode to uninstall it .

Yes you will lose wireless as the utility will install/uninstall the wireless driver as part of the program install/uninstall. This is normal.

So to update my studio1555 should i follow directions, pop in the dell windows upgrade assistsnt disk, and uninstall the wan card utility?

will the correct driver download? can i do this without hard wiring?

thanks.

Hi Did you get any joy - I stupidly went ahead and pushed the button and now have lost wireless and don't know what to do next. Did you find the right utility card? Can I return to the old system?

Help!!!

I have exactly the same computer as you...

Fi

Hi Did you get any joy - I stupidly went ahead and pushed the button and now have lost wireless and don't know what to do next. Did you find the right utility card? Can I return to the old system? Help!!! I have exactly the same computer as you... Fi

What OS did you install? What card do you have?

Go HERE select the version of OS if you have win 7 x64 select that one if you have win 7 32 bit use the vista 32 bit selection. then go down the network listing and download the driver for your wireless card.  Do not use the download manager. Select the option to download using the web browser.