Strange wireless

[Guest]

Good morning, I'm having a strange issue on a Dell laptop that I hope can be
solved soon. It's running Windows 2000 w/ SP4 and what it is doing is
showing the interal wireless NIC (Dell TrueMobile 1150) as an unplugged cable
connection. All drivers were updating and re-imaging the computer from
scratch and re-updating didn't even seem to fix it. If anyone has any
insight into that that'd be great. Thanks!

 

[Dave]

maybe the internal wireless adapter is broke? or the access point is dead?

 

[Guest]

AP is ok since i'm on a spare laptop right now, i'll check out the adapter
though. thanks.

 

[Herb Martin]

dead?

AP is ok since i'm on a spare laptop right now, i'll check out the adapter
though. thanks.

Dell has great support and this sounds like a question
for them.

Probably with Win2000 you have to use the Dell (NIC
specific) adapter configuration and I have had a LOT of
trouble over the years with those (NetGear mostly).

If the adapter-driver combination doesn't work, then you
typically get "disconnected" which is not a specific enough
of symptom to diagnose.

Does the config utility have a "strength meter" or "rescan"?
Have you checked all the settings? Especially the WEP
key, channel....?

 

[Guest]

I had similar issues with Dell laptops, using their true mobile NIC/
I found that in some cases (I say some because with others I didn't have the
same problem) it is a binding issue, that is solved by installing a spcial
utility from their FTP.
I forget the name of it, but like Herb mentioned - Dell support will be able
to provide you with this file on the spot.

Allen

 

[Herb Martin]

I had similar issues with Dell laptops, using their true mobile NIC/
I found that in some cases (I say some because with others I didn't have the
same problem) it is a binding issue, that is solved by installing a spcial
utility from their FTP.
I forget the name of it, but like Herb mentioned - Dell support will be able
to provide you with this file on the spot.

And also, if you type in the id of your machine on the
Dell Support Site they can take you to ALL the downloads
for that machine -- including bios and NIC updates as
well as regular drivers etc.