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(Solved) - dell lattitude d600 wireless network controller

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paulg
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my mum has a dell lattitude d600 laptop. we'd been having some trouble specifying our own wireless network. it seems there was some dell software that was overriding xp's list of preferred wireless networks. we disabled this software and were easily able to specify which network we wanted to connect to, our own. i, in my most infinite wisdom, decided that since the software was disabled we might as well just remove it. now, there is no wireless network access and the network controller in the device manager shows up as the ever dreaded yellow question mark. i've done my best from the dell website to try to find the correct driver, but none seem to work and since we've just moved we cannot locate the cd that came with the laptop. i cannot, on the dell website, locate the application that i originally uninstalled to reinstall it.
can someone out there let me know where to download dell's wireless network controller application. i've got the driver, i just need the other software.

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ibbill
ibbill
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paulg all the drivers for your laptop xp are listed HERE

Hope this is what you want. Let us know.
Bill

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paulg
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yeah i found that list, the trouble is there are 22 things listed under drivers, some of them labeled drivers, some utilities, diagnostics etc... i didn't delete a driver i just removed a program that seemed to take the driver with it. i can't determine which driver/application/utility i need to download to get it to work again, and i'd rather not just download them all one at a time trying to figure it out. it would be much simpler if dell didn't add little bits of software to their machines that take up run time to do something that windows should be able to do on it's own

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paulg
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seriously, look at that list and tell me which one to download, it's ridiculous

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Scott
Scott
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Click on Dell Quick Set, I think that's what you need.

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paulg
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ty scott, sorry ibill if i seemed snarky, this is just very frustrating for me

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paulg
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quickset just seems to give me an auto shut off option for hte internal when a network cable is unplugged, it does not seem to effect the wireless side

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Scott
Scott
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If it's not this one, I have no idea.
http://support.dell.com/suppor.....leid=98364

All the other entries for Wireless are drivers or firmware. This is the only application.

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paulg
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heh, thanks for your help scott, it wasn't that one, but i did find it eventually

guess i'll just have to be more patient next time

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Scott
Scott
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Do you have a wireless connection?

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ibbill
ibbill
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paulg no problem have dealt with Dell computers a few times and it is very very very frustrating. Thanks to Scott for helping out here.

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Scott
Scott
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And thank you Bill, for helping out as much as you do.

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