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Latitude D620/Dell Wireless 1390 Connection Issues

John68040

John68040

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I recently set up XP Pro on a few D620s and the wireless card is having connection issues in all of them. I used the drivers from Dell, and I have used other computers on the two different networks (different locations) the laptops have been used on. They take forever to connect to the network after login. They also sometimes refuse to see any networks until the computer is restarted. Vista was installed when purchased, but I put XP Pro on.

I've tried changing network channels in the routers. Is this an issue with Dell hardware, or is there something software related I can do? Vista, XP, and OS X all connect immediately on every other computer I've used on both networks.
 
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I disabled the vendor utility. I've tried it both ways with the same results. I even installed just the driver on one without the utility.
 
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I worked on someones laptop (I think it was a 620) recently and I couldn't get the wireless driver to work right. I ended up installing the driver for a d630 and it worked fine. Can't remember the exact driver version though.
 
If you can, use just the driver and not the dell install package. IE don't just disable the Dell apps, remove it entirely and put the raw driver in and let windows manage it.
 
imagoon said:
If you can, use just the driver and not the dell install package. IE don't just disable the Dell apps, remove it entirely and put the raw driver in and let windows manage it.
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I did that on one of the 3 and it still behaves the same way.

I'll try the D630 driver.
 
John68040 said:
I did that on one of the 3 and it still behaves the same way.

I'll try the D630 driver.
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The other thing to try.... most dell cards are Broadcom (more often) / Intel (less often) inside. You can pop the card and look and download far more updated drivers from the chip manufacturer.
 
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