Using Dell Wireless 1370 wlan card in Dell Latitude C610

[yankee427]

I just bought a dell wireless 1370 wlan mini-pci card to put in my Dell Latitude c610 laptop that did not have any wireless card in there.

I bought the card without any drivers, and now when I try to install official dell wireless 1370 drivers, an error message comes up and says hardware not found on computer. I have found other broadcom drivers to try, and these will install, but the wireless card will not show up in network connections.

The model of the card is a broadcom BCM94318MPG rev 4

Is there something I am missing in installing the drivers for this card? Is there any way I could get this card to work in a c610 or is the problem just that the card is not compatible with the C610 and therefore will never work?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[nweaver]

does the device show up in device manager?

 

[Bluestealth]

I am assuming you already enabled it in your bios and tried the Fn-F2 hotkey.

 

[yankee427]

Yeah, the device is found in device manager, but it shows up as unknown network device. I checked in everest hardware monitor and it showed up as the right card.

 

[Bluestealth]

Hmmm.... I have only had that problem when the laptop had trouble supplying power to the card and when I had a defective card, do you have another card to try?

 

[yankee427]

Yeah, I have another 802.11b card that works fine in there. I got this card to upgrade the card to g, and it did not have wpa encryption on the 802.11b card, which I need to connect to my wireless network at school, which is the main reason I got the card.

Does anyone know where some drivers for this card could be also? I have tried many different broadcom drivers, dell drivers nothing seems to work. It always shows up as no hardware found quitting setup.

 

[Bluestealth]

I have no other suggestions except to try an Intel 2915ABG if you can get your hands on one.

 

[yankee427]

Yeah, I cant seem to get this to work. None of the drivers I am trying are working.

Anyone else have any ideas?

I think I may just have to get a new card. This is getti.ng really annoying