Hi,

I bought a refurb D610 and installed Win XP several times (after I found out that the order of drivers install matters). Last install I followed the order for driver installation.

My ethernet connection (Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller) is working fine, although I'm writing this from a separate PC.

Under Network adapters in the device manager, there is only the above mentioned ethernet device, NO wireless device. That's wrong, or not?

Under Other devices (with yellow question & exclamation mark) are two devices:

1) PCI Simple Communications Controller (Device Inst. ID = VEN_104 / DEV_8038 / SUBSYS_01821028) --- ???

2) Unknown device (Device Inst. ID = ACPI \ BCM0101 \ 4 \ 15F2F7D1 & 0 ) --- TPM (?)

With Sysinternals Process Explorer I can see the following (wireless related) processes in the Windows/system32 directory: (which are started automatically)

1) WLTRYSVC.EXE

2) BCMWLTRY.EXE  (WLAN Card Wireless Network Controller)

3) WLTRAY.EXE  (WLAN Card Wireless Network Tray Applet)

However I don't see any wireless related icon in the system tray. When starting the "Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility" from the Start Menu, nothing happens.

Can someone please help me to get my wireless to work on my D610?

Thanks for any help!

Tom

PS: this is the laptop that I was using for several years for our company (still with Windows 2000) until a couple months ago, and then bought it back (for private use) from another company that refurbs them (HD wipes) for our company. Under W2K the wireless worked perfectly! I didn't get any software with it, but downloaded all drivers from the dell site.