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Inspiron 600m Not Installing Wireless Driver
I have an Inspiron 600m. I had to restore to factory settings. Every time I boot the laptop, I get the message that new hardware is found. It proceeds through everything, then refuses to install the wireless driver. No, I no longer have the original disk for the computer. I have gone to Dell's website and downloaded what should be the appropriate driver. The wireless is a Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card.
Any ideas? I'm very frustrated at this point. I have a laptop with wireless so I don't have to use a cat5 cable and be tethered to a desk!
Cass
I used the Inspiron 600m disk that I received with the laptop to restore the system to its original factory settings, meaning that it was restored to the way it was when I received it from Dell after I purchased it. It is Windows XP. I could have sworn that "restore to factory settings" means only one thing, but I guess it has different meanings for different scenarios.
The "drivers" disk is the one missing. I found my broken Inspiron 600m and swapped wireless cards with it. This one installed itself. I'm thinking the other one had some type of problem. Now, to find a battery...
Thanks for the assistance and the information. Next time, I will know about re-install versus restore.
Merry Christmas.
DELL-Royan S
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Posted December 7th, 2011 00:00
Hi Forensics,
Welcome to the Community. Use the below link to download the driver for the Dell 1370 card and save it to your desktop. Once saved to the desktop, click on start, right click on computer, click on properties, click on hardware, click on device manager, Under other devices you will see the Ethernet Controller which is the wireless card, right click on it and click on update driver, select browse my computer for driver software, and direct it to the wireless driver saved on the desktop, after updating restart your computer.
Hope this helps.
Thank you
Royan