Dell Precision M60 WLAN Driver?

[lotharamious]

Hey dudes,

I've just spent my whole day at work trying to find a wireless driver for a Dell Precision M60 notebook. I've tried *all* options available to me, and I'm at wit's end. After 4 hours of searching, I've discovered that these wireless devices are discovered as Broadcom BCM4306 wireless devices under linux. Upon looking for said driver, I find only linux variants. Now, does someone know of a driver that will work for windows?

On the Dell support site there is about 253,269,752,336 different wireless devices (at least it feels like it) that have shipped with this notebook.

Here's what I've used:
ALL of the wireless drivers available on Dell's support site under the precision m60 model.
About 5 different Broadcom BCM4306 wireless drivers (VERY difficult to find seeing as the chipset was distributed through OEMs exclusively).

I've tried to install them in as many ways as I can think of, i.e. stand-alone installer, updating the driver through device manager, etc. All that happens is the installers succeed, but the driver does not install.

Nothing works. Believe me, I feel like it's over. There is a ?(!) Network Controller icon in my device manager, and I really need to get this wireless going.

Put on your thinking caps; even I'm stumped.

Thanks

 

[livingsacrifice]

Did you try the driver for the Dell Latitude DXXX... If I recall correctly the precision and the latitudes are nearly identical, I've had a few service reps come out and replace precision motherboards in latitudes. The m60 might be the d810 latitude. I've had a few times when the drivers on the Dell site didn't work but from the products manufacturer site they did. But seriously if you've tried it that many times and it doesn't work it sounds like a hardware problem to me.

 

[lotharamious]

Originally posted by: livingsacrifice
But seriously if you've tried it that many times and it doesn't work it sounds like a hardware problem to me.

That's what I was thinking. Oh well...

 

[MrChad]

Have you checked the Original System Configuration app on Dell's support site? If you enter your service tag number, it should tell you the specs of the computer as it was originally configured.