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October 1st, 2008 20:00
Driver only for Dell wireless cards?
We have D810's, D820's and D830's and we want to use a GPO that forces our laptops to use windows to manage the wireless connections. We configured a wireless GPO but it doesn't disable the dell wireless utility even though we tell it to use windows to manage wireless connections. I've searched the web and haven't found much. Are there downloads available for drivers only for the dell wireless cards such as 1370, 1470, 1490 instead of the driver/utility? What is the registry setting that enables/disables the option to Let this tool manager your wireless network inthe Dell utility? Thanks.
Margie
Larry R
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October 2nd, 2008 14:00
mstevens11
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October 3rd, 2008 13:00
I realize this option can be unchecked in the ulitilty. We are looking for a way to automate this change without having to touch each laptop or rely on the user to change this option. If we could find out what the registry setting is that disables/enables the dell utility for managing the wireless connection would be very helpful. Thanks.
Margie
Larry R
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October 3rd, 2008 15:00
Officially, I can't help you with registry edits as that is something not normally covered by Dell's support policies. However, I agree that the setting is probably stored there somewhere, I just don't know where.
I haven't been able to find an XP system that has a Broadcom card here to find the info you're looking for. The one XP system has the Intel, all the others are running Vista (my own included). In the Vista version of the Dell Wireless Utility (on my system) there isn't an option to switch the control to the Utility.
Since you obviously have access to at least one such computer, you might be able to try what I was going to attempt. Basically, take the computer and export the registry to a text file. Then open the wireless utility and switch the control to/from Windows, save the settings then do a second export of the registry to a different name. Then find the difference between the two exported files and that should give you the registry key.
mstevens11
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October 7th, 2008 20:00
Larry,
I did as you suggested and took snapshots of registry when dell utility was enabled and disabled. There really isn't a specific key that I can use to push to computers to enable or disable the utility. I also had asked if there are drivers only for the dell wireless cards. Do you know if there are? This might do the trick for us if the dell utitlity is not installed at all, only the drivers and then the windows wireless utility would be used. Please let me know. Thanks.
Margie
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October 8th, 2008 19:00
The drivers are part of the software package downloadable from the support site. If the driver download is R123456 then it would create c:\dell\drivers\R123456 and in that directory would be the actual driver files, in addition to setup.exe and the settings for the automated installation. I've walked customers through doing a driver install by going to Device Manager and telling it to "search for drivers" then pointing it to the relevant directory.
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I almost forgot. If there isn't a registry setting to toggle then its going to be a registry setting and a service. I've never had to look into this before, however, so I really don't know what exactly is going to be required to get it to work the way you want (although I don't see any reason it can't be done).