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Adam1595

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April 14th, 2005 23:00

Networking a 500m

Hi i have recently got a 500m from my uncle as a present (its his old one) and want to net work it with my pc i have tryed activating the device in the system start up by pressing F2 and chainging the settings, i have got all the drivers off the dell site and i cant get it working and tearing my hair out i am near ready to give it him back LOL!!!!! i have read on the dell faq that some featuers need to be orderd like the internal blue tooth but surley the network card (not the wireless tho it shoud have it since it is a centrino i think) shoud come with it as standard if not does any one in manchester have a spair one lol thanks for any reply Adam

jwatt

4.4K Posts

April 15th, 2005 00:00

Adam,

If you reinstalled XP, and didn't reinstall the chipset drivers for the Inspiron 500m, that fact would explain the symptom. Does the Ethernet adapter appear in the Device Manager? Are there are any problems listed for it?

The Inspiron/Network board is better place for troubleshooting Inspiron networking problems. If you need more help, you might want to post there.

Jim

Adam1595

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April 15th, 2005 11:00

hi thanks for your reply windows has been reinstalled and the net work card is in the device list but i have installed that file you recomended and it dosnt solve the problem i have checked all the files listed under the 500m and non of them solve the problem thanks for your help any way adam
 

TimW_of_NY

92 Posts

April 15th, 2005 18:00

Are you networking one PC to another PC? Or are you networking a PC through a hub? If you are trying to network 2 PCs without a hub, you need a special network cable called a crossover cable.

If you are networking through a hub, what operating system are you using? You need to make sure TCP/IP is installed.

Tim

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