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April 16th, 2007 15:00

Intel Wireless 3945ABG language problem XPS 1210 Laptop

I am an owner from Greece of a Dell XPS 1210 (Windows XP Professional SP2 – US English edition) laptop with an Intel Pro wireless 3495 ABG card which was working perfectly fine locally and whenever I traveled.. I logged in yesterday into the Dell site to download the necessary updates of all the drivers for my specific model,. One of updates which was recommended by Dell (not urgent but recommended) was update R138747.EXE which contained the Installer package for driver version 10.5.1.72 and PROSet/Wireless utility version 10.5.1.182 . Until then, I had no idea which utility version nor which driver version was already installed on my laptop. I downloaded the update. It automatically installed the driver and the utility version without asking for any input from me. Since then, ALL the menu items of the specific utility, as well as all messages that appear when I right click on the Intel wireless icon on the start menu or when a message appears either if it finds a signal or when the mouse moves over the icon. ALL these messages appear garbled and totally ineligible (some letters in Greek, others in English, and many unknown symbols). Mind you the system works. It finds and logs into the networks in my profiles automatically but I cannot read or understand any message or question it asks me because its neither Greek nor English. These are the steps I did

1.  I tried to restore to the old drivers using the the rollback drivers option on the device manager of the card. It wouldn't roll back.

2. I tried to restore the entire system to the previous day restore point. Again it could not t restore it (this I think is a different problem why it could not).

3.I downloaded, again from Dell the previous update (i.e. R136152.) which contained the  Installer package for driver version 10.5.1.69 and PROSet/Wireless utility version 10.5.0.174 supporting Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection Wireless, which was the previous versions of both. Once downloaded, I removed, from the add/remove function of the control panel the utility and I removed the driver (uninstall function of device manager for the specific network card). I then ran the download. Again it self installed. Yet the dirver was not rolled back and I had (IEEE 802.1x) v 3.6.0.0 the same problem reading the menus and messages

4. I looged into Intel and discovered a yet NEW driver 11.0 for this card, I downloaded it but this time the card wouldn’t even work. It just blocked the entire card. I rolled back the driver to 10.5.1.72 and the card worked again but with the same garbled menus in its utility

5. I looked around in the intel site and found a recommendation to deactivate the AEGIS protocol(IEEE 802.1x) v 3.6.0. on the properties of the wireless network. I did. I didn’t solve the problem,

6. My final try was with the language and regional settings on the control panel. I chose whatever English and/or Greek type of alphabet that was not ticked on. There were not a lot unticked. I ticked every thing but still no problem.

 

I am not an IT expert, just a heavy user, but I think it is something to do with the ini files of the set up. I I also noticed that on the intel\wireless\\bin\evtrace\db subfolder 2 access files one traceELL.mdb (which contains a fault table in Greek- Legible) and the traceENU.mdb with the tables in English. Perhaps this is the issue.

 

I need to bring the utility to be legible (English preferably). Please help…

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