I am having issues with Latitude E7470 and E7270 not disabling WIFI when docked or when a hard wired network connection is present.
I have ensured that the Power Management\Wireless Radio Control\ Control WLAN and Control WWAN radio options are Enabled and Selected in the BIOS of each respective model and no luck.
I even tried to upgrade to BIOS version 1.4.2 and no luck - is anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix or address are greatly appreciated.
So the functionality (which existed on E5450) where both WLAN and WWAN were "disabled automatically when an ethernet cabel is present" no longer exists?
Would really like to know if this can be automatic function to disable when docked, as per OP.
The scenario is that you have wireless networks and wired networks that are different, and you don't want to bridge networks when docked. You want wireless to turn off, disconnect from that network entirely as soon as the docked network connection is established.
I've tried to install these on my new 7270 and I can't install it because get an error saying that "this installation package doesn't support this processor type"
Even if I try the newer one 1.0.0.6 I get the same error!
Dell, what I'm I suppose to do?
I should say that we have win 7 32 bit.
Computer processor is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
I was getting the same error with 1.0.0.6, but I had Win x64.
I was finally able to get 1.0.0.6 installed. I installed 1.0.0.5 first and it installed fine, but didn't disable the WLAN radio. Next I extracted the 1.0.0.6 to a folder and ran HKDellDrSetup64.msi from the folder. It installed fine and disable the radio immediately.
drmaddog
22 Posts
17659
2
Posted May 10th, 2016 12:00
The following models require Dell WLAN HotKey Driver for Windows 7:
Dell 7510
E7470
E7270
E5470
After install you still have to manually toggle the wireless off then on once via FN+PrtSc keys to "kickstart" the driver.
Do NOT install version 1.0.0.5 as it is NOT digitally signed and will bluescreen your system
Stick with 1.0.0.4 until it is fixed:
www.dell.com/.../DriversDetails
I posted here regarding 1.0.0.5 but so far no response:
en.community.dell.com/.../19681123