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March 22nd, 2007 18:00

Vista and on-board Broadcom NIC

My Boss recently upgraded his Latitude d420 from windows xp to our corporate version of Vista.  Since the upgrade, the onboard NIC cannot be enabled.  It acts almost as if the Dell utility has turned the device off to conserve power only, when you go to the Control Panel, the "Internal NIC Confiuration" option is not there.  Has anyone else had this experience?  I have downloaded the latest drivers from the Broadcom site, as they are not listed on the dell site, only the Broadcom application.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you.
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    Posted March 23rd, 2007 12:00

    I have an Inspiron E1405 which is very similar but on the home side. I had to download an installation utility and updated driver. Neither of these auto downloaded. Good luck, I gave up and went back to XP. The performance hit to the laptop was just too great (even with Aero turned off). Inspiron E1405 Intel Duo 1.8 Integrated Intel Graphics One gig RAM