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September 16th, 2014 10:00
Dell inspiron n5110 Core i5 wifi is not enabled
Hi,
I cannot enable wifi in my laptop. When I press Fn+F2 a notification icon appear on the screen that enabled wireless, but it only appears Bluetooth adapter only.
I tried couple of network drivers from http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-15r-n5110/drivers , but doesn't work.
I installed Speccy tool. It says 'wifi not enabled'.
In my HP laptop (5 year old, not a single repair yet), there is a broadcom driver in the Device Manager, but I cannot see anything related to wifi with dell.
Also there is an unidentified driver called 'Network Controller'.
Can anyone tell me which is the suitable driver?
I'm using Windows 7 32 bit SP1.
And I upgraded BIOS version to A11 and there is no such an option to enable wifi from BIOS.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Alejan
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September 17th, 2014 08:00
Finally it worked. Many thanks to Saurabh A's reply in this
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/259947-dell-inspiron-n5110-wireless-network-controller-problem.html thread.
My driver is 'Intel Centrino Wireless-N1030' (I didn't know) and the suitable driver for Windows 7 32bit is 'R311896.exe'. And I do not know where I found this driver. But it isn't in the list of http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-15r-n5110/drivers
Anyway dell sucks.
Users have to have a better knowledge about Hardware, Basic Internet, Hardware architectures, what is 32bit?, 32 or 64?...etc to deal with dell.
But HP gives a complete drivers pack when you insert your product and model.
HP provides a unique set of HWs for a particular model.
if HP ABC XXYY -> unique set of hardwares
but DELL ABC XXYY -> "we don't know what the exact hardware is, it could be one of the followings"
Dell sucks again.
First and last dell of mine.