From: Yvon on
My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card
for an "N" card.
It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install
it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right
now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net.
The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if
it take only a week.
My question is:
Is this something we can fix ourself?
Or is it on soldered on the mother board?

Thank you

Yvon


From: RnR on
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:29:31 -0700 (PDT), Yvon <yvongravel(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card
>for an "N" card.
>It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install
>it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right
>now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net.
>The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if
>it take only a week.
>My question is:
>Is this something we can fix ourself?
>Or is it on soldered on the mother board?
>
>Thank you
>
>Yvon
>


You said that it doesn't work any more. Can you explain how it
worked wihen it did work? Were you using "n" std (protocol) then?
N is a fairly new standard so I'm wondering if your router has this
capability? Bear in mind that draft N std is not the same as N std.

The first two things that come to my mind if it worked on N before is
first to reboot. If no luck, try taking down the firewall just to
see if it works then. There are more things to check but at this
point, just keep us posted.
From: Yvon on
On Apr 5, 9:10 pm, "RnR" <rnrte...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:29:31 -0700 (PDT), Yvon <yvongra...(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card
> >for an "N" card.
> >It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install
> >it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right
> >now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net.
> >The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if
> >it take only a week.
> >My question is:
> >Is this something we can fix ourself?
> >Or is it on soldered on the mother board?
>
> >Thank you
>
> >Yvon
>
> You said that it doesn't work any more.   Can you explain how it
> worked wihen it did work?  Were you using "n" std (protocol) then?  
> N is a fairly new standard so I'm wondering if your router has this
> capability? Bear in mind that draft N std is not the same as N std.
>
> The first two things that come to my mind if it worked on N before is
> first to reboot.   If no luck, try taking down the firewall just to
> see if it works then.  There are more things to check but at this
> point,  just keep us posted.

Thank you for your help.
It was working with the N protocole before, I am using an Apple
airport extreme as a router. The router work fine, the problem is not
there. I did try to reset the modem and the router just in case and it
didn't help.
I tried to reboot, update the driver, format etc...
Nothing work so far.
From: Ron Hardin on
Yvon wrote:
>
> My wife own an inspiron 1545 laptop. She upgraded the wireless card
> for an "N" card.
> It doesn't work anymore. I tried to uninstall the driver and install
> it again, I even tried a clean install of vista. Nothing worked. Right
> now she use a RJ45 cable to go on the net.
> The problem is, she need her laptop we can't send it to Dell even if
> it take only a week.
> My question is:
> Is this something we can fix ourself?
> Or is it on soldered on the mother board?
>
> Thank you
>
> Yvon

The wireless card just unplugs like a HD; and there are 3 clip-on wires for
the antenna, which connect to 2 or 3 places on the card as well, depending
on the card (stowing the 3rd if not needed). Look up the manual for the
laptop on the dell site.

My experience was with a Vostro laptop, which has a handy access door for
the thing.
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From: Ron Hardin on
Another thing to try is let windows control the card rather
than the dell utility. Find the utility in start/programs
and check the box to let windows run it instead.
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