Re: Dell Wireless 1450 Radio Disabled - won't enable!
- From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:02:36 -0700
whoabuddy@xxxxxxxxx hath wroth:
I just re-installed the drivers on a Dell Latitude D505 for both the
Intel Pro/100 VE LAN connection and the Dell Wirless 1450 Dual Band
WLAN Mini-PCI card.
Why did you reinstall these in the first place? What problem were you
originally trying to solve? Did these work before you reinstalled?
http://www.dell.com/downloads/us/products/optix/dell1450_spec.pdf
The wireless card is still showing the radio to be disabled, and
whenever I try to enable it via the utility, it says "The Dell Wireless
WLAN Card is still disabled. Slide the Wirless ON/OFF switch to enable
it or press Fn-F2 to enable it."
After looking over the machine I can't find a wireless ON/OFF switch,
and pressing Fn-F2 does absolutely nothing. Pressing Fn and any other
combination works though, so it's not the button.
Wild guess: Check the CMOS setup and see if there's a wireless
enable/disable setting.
2nd wild guess: Are all the USB ports working and properly
configured? Try a USB memory dongle or mouse to be sure.
3nd Wild Guess: The 1450 is a USB adapter. The wireless on/off
switch will do nothing for the external USB wireless adapter. I don't
recall that FN-F2 will do anything.
The Dell D505 normally comes with an Intel ProSomething internal
MiniPCI wireless card. Is this still present? If not, is the driver
for whatever MiniPCI card you installed still installed? If so,
uninstall it.
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