Dell Inspiron 6000 Wireless Card Problem

My friend helped me format my laptop. this is about the 4-5th time he helped me done it but the wireless never works nor wired with my laptop. The thing is my wifi card Intel Pro Wireless 2200 broke a few years ago somehow. I ended up purchasing a wifi card on ebay named gigabyte pci card for my laptop. It worked when my other friend installed the drivers.

However, i cannot find these drivers online anymore. Can someone help me? The wifi card i bought is called 108M Inspiron 5000 6000 8000 Wireless Card WiFi CF.

 

Do you have a more exact brand/model number? If it's a Gigabyte card, you can try their website to see if they have drivers available.

 

okay my friend got it to work by installing gigabyte driver. The wireless now works. However, when i put my laptop wired, it does not work. It says ethernet is not installed. Anyone know what i can do?

 

Have you checked the Dell website for the Inspiron 6000, and get the Ethernet driver from their website?

 

Hey to the posters who helped me fixed my ram thanks a lot.

My computer was formatted by my friend and he helped install my wireless and downloaded the gigabyte wireless driver from the website. This was done at his home and internet worked.

However at my home, i can connect to the internet wireless but it is not my internet connection. I see that it shows netgear or some other wireless connection. I tried to click on view other wireless networks but it does not allow me to. Does anyone know what i can do? I also cannot use my laptop as a wired connection as well. I have a linksys wireless router that works great and would like to use it for my laptop wireless like it did before.

Anyone can tell me what to do? Thanks.

 

bump anyone?

 

Check the properties on your card in the device manager. Make sure that you have the correct band set for your router.

Also make sure that any security protocol is set correctly.

 

I do not know how to do that jakpro

 

Control Panel> Device Manager> Network Adapters> right click your wireless card and select Properties and then Advanced> Wireless Mode

 

I clicked on wireless network connection and went to advanced I see windows firewall with settings. I dont see much else

 

Would you mind if I asked your age?

 

im 23. I dont know computers much.

 

Can anyone help me along with this?

 

Bump, Anyone can help me??

 

Bump Can anyone help me? I cannot add a wireless network i dont think. Someone tells me it is not my wireless card problem b/c it is working since it does recognize a connection but it isnt mine. Also somone else at my home has laptop and is using wireless to my home connection is my router is not the problem.

 

Copy the settings from the one that connects to the router. Set yours the same.