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Dell D610 WiFi card.

  • 19-04-2014 12:39pm
    #1
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all.
    Ressurrecting an ancient (but in great nick) Dell D610 here. I put on Windows 7 which runs pretty good. I was trying to start up the WiFi card for AGES before I cracked the laptop open and saw there was no card in there at all!
    So, off to Ebay for a Broadcom 4318 WiFi card. I've fitted it in but I keep getting an I/0 parity interrupt error. I updated the BIOS (USB DOS boot as it wasn't working under W7) but no help.
    So is this most likely to be a damaged WiFi card or do some extension cards simply not work in some laptops? The ebay page says it's supposed to work in a D610, but not necessarily under Windows 7, but the rejection is at BIOS time.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    Update: I got a PCMCIA WiFi card to run OK. Got a generic Ralink driver that worked fine under Windows 7.
    Still no luck with the internal WiFi card though.


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