lost wireless connection - Inspiron 9300

you will have to go to intel site and redownload the 2200 card drivers. hope this helps u. if that dont work go into device manager and look for wireless card there and remove it.

help - do you know what i search for on the intel site?

By the way, that location is for the 2200BG wireless adapter.  If your 9300 uses the 2915ABG adapter, you must find the driver used by it for your specific operating system.

Here is the location on the Intel site.  You really need to be careful.  If you are unable to find the driver download on the Intel site, I am afraid you are really going to struggle with the wireless setup.

You have to use the driver developed for your version of WinXP.

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=1637&lang=eng

Good Luck to you

Jim

Message Edited by steven troise on 02-04-2006 01:52 PM

I have a similar problem with my friend's Inspiron 6000. The card is an Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG.

Here's what I concluded,
There's a yellow exclamation mark next to the adapter.
It's says device cannot start (code 10)
It also says "adapter state not found in registry"
It won't be detected by windows automatically no matter how many times I uninstalled the driver.
I checked the bios to see if I any settings were changed and they were all fine and enabled.
I opened up the laptop and replace the mini pci card, still no change.
I used the latest drivers that were dated on September of '05. V9.0.3.9
I ran Norton Antivirus, with the latest virus definitions dated on 2/2/06, no virus found.
The computer is up to date with windows updates.

I haven't tried doing a clean install of the drivers, I was thinking of deleting all files related to Intel/wireless and possibly deleting some registry keys. But windows should at least detected the card and began to notify me of a new hardware has been found, but it doesn't. I have to manually install it using the Add Hardware program. I think the card is faulty.