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DELL Truemobile 1350 utility?
I bought a dell trumobile 1350 minipci and installed it in my NON dell laptop. Windows XP found the card ok and I can use it just fine but I am not abel to intall the utility to see the signalstrenght in the satusbar. When i try to install the utility it claims that it cannot see the proper hardware (I assume a dell laptop) and won't install.
Any way around this? Or alternate utility that i can download?
check this out. Have'nt tried it but it may do the trick. http://www.pctel.com/prodSegRCdnld.html
- I purchased a Inspiron 5150. It came with a Truemobile 1350. I have a Linksys b wireless router, BEFW11S4. The 1350 is slower than dial up. It is terrible. I have tried to get it to work but... no go. I can use my wireless pc card with no problem. Anyone have any suggestions? Or, am I just beating a dead horse?
- I have tried changing the channel, I could uninstall the pc card, but it was not installed when I tried the 1350 card initially. The drivers on all the wireless gadgets are current. But who knows. I will look at the antenna connections. That is a possibility. Thanks for the help.
Hard to figure out - I'm in roughly the same boat, though the speed that I have with my 1350 and the SMC wireless router is good. In my case though, the MAC filter doesn't work properly, so I have to disable it. You could try downloading the latest driver for the card and then (a) uninstall the old card drive, (b) reboot windows and then (c) install the new driver by doubleclicking on the file. After that, configure things so that it connects with the linksys with no MAC filter, no encryption. Once you can do that with a reasonable throughput, then activate the security features one at a time. You may also try changing channels on the wireless router. Just for a laugh, you could also open the miniPCI card door (it's s[rewed down) to check the antennae leads to make sure that they are attached! (stranger things have happened!). Make sure that your wireless router is away from any metal plate or major electrical conductor/circuit or cell phone or wireless phone - all these can affect transmission strength. If all that doesn't work, maybe the card just doesn't like to play with the router.....I've seen that happen too....
anthony26
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Posted July 7th, 2004 17:00
Probably no way you will be able to install the utility since it's seeking out Dell system hardware. You'll just have to use XP's built in 802.11 support. One draw back is that you can't toggle the wireless card on and off with hot keys as well. I'll keep my eye out for a third party 802.11 support software. Don't know if there's one out there, but I'm sure there are others out who would rather use another application rather than Windows Wireless Zero Config.