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Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless

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In news:kvt6l7d16b3rri06btsfa615hncoscrn04@4ax.com,
Allen Drake wrote:
> I am trying to help a friend upgrade this heavy old beast and never
> played with a Dell laptop before but I have a question about the
> wireless connectivity. Apparently it has no wireless device. This
> thing has not been used in five years so one of the first things it
> did when I turned it on was to install a windows update, SP3. It went
> forward and did take a long time but I am trying to figure out how
> this happened if it has no wireless card installed. All I did was
> change the workgroup to reflect the one I use. I made no other changes
> and no I am unable to actually get any connectivity to my LAN. I do
> see this computer on my other systems on the network but am unable to
> connect. If it has no wireless device how do the other boxes even see
> this laptop? It also sees one of my computers but is unable to connect
> to this particular Win7 system. I have a mixture of several Win7 and
> XP Pro machines all working fine but am unable to get this Dell to
> connect. It's been a long time since I dealt with LAN problems and
> maybe need a refresher.
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> AL.

According to:

http://www.pcworld.com/product/22038/dell_inspiron_9100.html?p=specs

It sports a V.92 modem, 10/100 ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11a/g. So it 
should have wireless. And if it can be seen by at least other computers, 
it must be transmitting a wireless signal (assuming that nothing is 
wired up to it). Since it is supposed to have Bluetooth, which is 
another avenue for a connection. I would peek in the Device Manager and 
see what it sees what is there.

So at this point I would power down the Dell and reset your wireless 
modem or router and then retry. You might have to power down your 
wireless for 10 seconds or more instead of a reset. This is the first 
thing I would do.

If sharing isn't enabled, you might not be able to view anything on this 
Dell either.

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 

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Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 09:23 -0500
  Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2012-03-04 09:43 -0600
    Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 11:12 -0500
    Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 11:53 -0500
      Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2012-03-04 11:08 -0600
        Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 12:22 -0500
          Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2012-03-04 11:42 -0600
            Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 14:23 -0500
      Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-05 19:27 -0500
  Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 07:50 -0800
    Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-04 11:14 -0500
      Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2012-03-04 22:23 +0000
        Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-05 03:46 -0500
          Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2012-03-05 10:40 +0000
            Re: Dell Inspiron 9100 wireless Allen Drake <ALDrake@Spamex.com> - 2012-03-05 17:17 -0500

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