Have you confirmed that the card is enabed in the BIOS? (press F2 as first boot) I dont think the C series has a Wireless switch on the side but it would also be worth checking for this, I know they have on on the D Series laptops.
It was not standard for the C610's to come with wireless and it was a optional extra durin the system configuration, Have you had the system from new or have you just been told that it has wireless? Do you have an unidentified network device in the control panel? (start > settings > control panel > system > Hardware > device manager) If it has a bluetooth adapter this can show as an unidentified network addapter within the device manager, so it may be this that you are seein and not the wireless card. With regards to opening the system up to locate the wireless card this should actually not be to much of a problem. I belive its under one of the rectangle panels on the base of the laptop (possibly along with the memory) and will be quite small in size (less than hale a credit card size). There are deivers on the dell site for your laptop/wireless cards, so Im not sure why the other poster was unable to locate them. Free free to send me a screen shot of your device manager to [email protected] and i will see if I can locate the correct driver for you. Regards, Richard Reeman MCDST MCP www.rnr-it.co.uk On May 22, 2:24 pm, KI4GSZ <[email protected]> wrote: > Service tag JY77M21 > > Running Win XP Home SP3 (clean install w/ updates) > > I have run into a HUGE snag. I was not able to even boot machine when > I got it, so I was unable to backup (or write out) what drivers & > hardware was installed. > > Here's the SNAG - Everything BUT a wireless controller is back up. > > I went through the Dell website (and 14 network controller > downloads)... nothing worked. > > I know this laptop has wireless cap. however I can't seem to figure > out what driver I need. > > Any ideas / suggestions / anything short of cracking the case open? > > It also has a 3Com RJ45 NIC (which works great) but I have run out of > ideas & could use a bump in the right direction. > > Thankx in advance to any & all reply. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
