Dell Inspiron 6400 Wireless Adapter gone

Irish Gunner

Have one of these Laptops that I am giving to parents. Was installed with XP but did a clean install to clear all the crap. However when I reinstalled it the wireless adapter was not working? Went into network connections and there was no option? Had a old wireless adapter key and working from that.

When I bought the PC windows was installed and dont think I had any issue with this? Is there a driver I need to install or how can I check that there is a wireless adapter?

The details on the laptop are Here

asgaard

Did you check in your Device Manager (might be missing driver). On Dell website download Broadcom drivers for your lappy.

duckysauce

load chipset drivers then wireless drivers

Irish Gunner

Thanks for this. Found the original cd drive and tried that no joy. Also loaded the broadcom and chipset still no joy

Picture of device manager below no sign of a wireless card?

asgaard

So in my opinion you have to install drivers for graphic card (it might be that one Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 or ATI driver - follow your link and download Video driver)) and then restart your lappy to check is there any changes.

Also you can use one with the programs which gonna search your drivers (drivermagic http://www.symplisit.com/en/drivermagic.html , Uniblue DriverScanner 2009 )or program which will identified your drivers (http://www.halfdone.com/ukd/).

It might be helpful also http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5494-network-controller-driver

Irish Gunner

Thanks. Tried all these but still no joy. Ran driver Magic but was still going about 2 hours later

Tried the other programs but not sure what to look for? Also looked at http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5...troller-driver but some downloads deleted

Still at a loss

Irish Gunner

Whoop De Doo got the wireless driver and now another problem:rolleyes:

Can view wireless and go to connect and getting 'acquiring network address' and it wont connect

Any idea as to what step to take next ?

Overheal

are you using the correct network password et all?

So happens I had to setup a 6400 today.... freaky.

Irish Gunner

Ok Blonde moment over and it was the wrong key:rolleyes::D

Thanks for everyone with the help much appreciated now to try to teach parents the basic of computing on a laptop:P

Alanstrainor

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Ok Blonde moment over and it was the wrong key:rolleyes::D

Thanks for everyone with the help much appreciated now to try to teach parents the basic of computing on a laptop:P

Hahaha,

Overheal

Figured as much happened to me earlier as well.