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Dell Inspiron 1150 Question

CrowDog

CrowDog

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I just bought this laptop used locally. She gave me the laptop, carrying case, dell cds. It appears that this does not have wireless capability right now though. I have never even used a laptop before or anything wireless...how do I get this thing to connect to my dsl router (it has wireless enabled)?

There is a slot along the left side that has a button I push and a little plastic card comes out that says "Dell" on it. My guess is this is where I put the wireless thingamajig?🙂
 
I just helped my niece get an 1150 for Christmas, and set it up for her.

Get a PCMCIA wireless card, or a USB wireless network adaptor.
Many choices under $20.

That laptop will play solitare just fine 🙁
Still great for web browsing, email, and DVD playback.
 
Originally posted by: RobsTV
I just helped my niece get an 1150 for Christmas, and set it up for her.

Get a PCMCIA wireless card, or a USB wireless network adaptor.
Many choices under $20.

That laptop will play solitare just fine 🙁
Still great for web browsing, email, and DVD playback.
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Anything you can recommend as far as the adaptors go?
 
I'd just get the cheapest one your wireless router will support. There was a hot deal at CompUSA's website for an 802.11 b/g card for $20 that I got. Not sure if it's still available or not, try checking the hotdeals forum. You could also check the for sale/trade forum for someone looking to dump an older wireless b card for cheap...
 
I have the Inspiron 1150 with TrueMobile 1300 b/g Wifi Mini PCI card in it.

The mini pci card is easy to install... here are the instructions: http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1150/sm/upgrades.htm#1105550

You can buy a truemobile 1300 off of ebay for like $50

Heres one I found by searching ebay for "1300 Mini PCI" http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...0&item=5747880979&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V

TrueMobile 1300 Mini PCI should work too... make sure its Mini PCI because they have the TrueMobile 1300 PCMCIA card too...

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