After a hard drive failure, I just reinstalled all the Dell software on my Inspiron 6000. It doesn’t seem to know it has a wireless card. I cannot find it (or maybe just recognize it) in hardware, device profiles. It certainly does not connect to the internet wirelessly. Any ideas?
What make and model is it? Because you can probably find drivers for your OS on DriverGuide (Free registration required) if not from the manufacturer’s own website’s support section. If it’s built-in, you can probably grab the drivers right from Dell’s site.
Get the Service Tag number off the sticker on the bottom of the laptop.
Then go to this page:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen
on Dell’s site put your Service Tag number in and click the Go button.
You should get a page showing software and drivers that shipped with the laptop.
Assuming you’re still running the wireless card the laptop shipped with, you should find the driver there.
Good luck!
On my Acer , there is a little switch that allows me to take the wireless offline, check that yours is switched to the on position.
I only mention this cause I was reading someones trials of getting wireless to run in linux, doing various things , only to find that it was turned off by the little switch.
Declan
Check the local C:\Windows\Drivers folder. If you used the Dell recovery disc it will probably stick all your basic drivers in that folder. Go in there and run the setup for whatever you don’t have.
Thanks for the advice. After spending a couple hours, I called Dell and spent a couple more hours reinstalling everything. It is up and running fine now. And I must say Dell support was on the line with me the whole time, and were very very good. Most of time was spent reinstalling everything. It seems I mixed up the order of two of the discs when I originally installed them and that screwed everthing up. My bad.