no wireless option

Just installed xp on my friend's d600 and there's no wireless option under connection devices. Don't know what to do. Any help?

 

Check if the WiFi network card drivers are installed. Look in device manager.

 

Thanks for responding. No I don't see the drivers.

 

Do you see the wireless card? It would be listed under something like network adapters.

If not, do you see any device denoted by a yellow question mark?

 

I don't see the network adapter option or wireless card anywhere. There is a PCMCIA adapter- generic cardbus controller. There's a yellow question mark like this:

?other devices
?ethernet controller
?multimedia audio congtroller
?o2micro smartcardbus_reader
?pci modem
?video controller (vga compatible)

 

Go to Dell's website, and look under Help and Support. There is a section specificly for drivers/software for your Dell notebook.

 

http://support.dell.com -> Drivers and Downloads

 

Jesh, lol, I'm having such a hard time. I installed every driver labled recommened and urgent under the network category here http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=LAT_PNT_PM_D600&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=, it still doesn't say the wireless adapter under network adapters. I checked the bios, and it said wireless yes.

 

Do you know the specific model/name of the wireless adapter? Broadcom xxxx, Dell xXxX, Intel xXxx.

I think the BIOS might list what wifi adapter you're using.

 

Dell wireless 1350 is what the specs said

 

Have you already tried either of these? Bost are listed as being for the 1350 of that model. The first one is newer & updated.

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=187888

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=152055

EDIT: I imagine you have already been to this page, but I'll post a link anyways.

All Drivers:

http://support.dell.com/support/dow...D=LAT_PNT_PM_D600&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=