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chida_one

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March 29th, 2006 14:00

Inspiron 6400 Wireless driver

I had some tremendous trouble installing the correct driver for the Inspiron 6400 wireless card, I finally found it but if you have the same problem I would like to share my solution so maybe you don't have to suffer so many days!.
The problem for me was that when I entered my tag service to dowload all my system's drivers, the list would recommend me to install the R115321, it run perfectly on the machine , it even installed an application called "Dell wireless WLAN Card Utility" but the wireless was still unrecognized. 
So I rather looked up for the driver of the exact wireless card: "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card" and I downloaded the driver R115707, it worked perfectly! It installed an application called "ProSet" and it detected my wireless card and network immediatly. I think that's the real driver for the wireless card.
Anyway, maybe you should try installing both of the drivers (R115321 and R115707) just to be sure...
Greetings and I hope it works!

LyonsUzer

5 Posts

March 29th, 2006 14:00

i tired going to both the dell website and going to the intel website and i got the drivers from both of them but neither of them work
 
I have a 2915ABG wireless card and it was working or a while but then one day all of a suddent it stopped and started saying that windows cannot find the driver.
 
Even when i pointed windows directly to the driver but still nothing. thanks for the help but i think that its something more complex than thats
 
Thanks anyway

BBraxton

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March 29th, 2006 17:00

LyonsUzer

What happens when you 'Remove' the adapter through Device Manager, then shut down the system and afterwards re-start the PC to get Windows to 'discover' the adapter anew ?

LyonsUzer

5 Posts

March 29th, 2006 19:00

it wont let me uninstall it, it syas that it is required to boot computer

chida_one

2 Posts

March 30th, 2006 18:00

Well, I don't know for sure what I did to make the wireless work, but maybe what BBraxton says is useful. Before I installed the Intel's driver, I deactivated the wireless card from the Setup (pressing F2 when the computer starts), the card was invisible to the system, then I installed the driver and reboot the computer, activating the wireless card. The system recognized it immediatly. Have you tried that? Maybe it'll work.

Anyway, good luck!! and don't dispair... haha! it's a real pain in the neck!

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