I've had this recently and it's similar to the Toshiba BT stack issue where loads of hardware doesn't get picked up.

For Dell's the install package named R260223.exe worked for me. I've got an E6410 but the 1501 card is in the driver set

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Yea removed and reseated twice.

Was windows 7 before also.

Hdd is fucked. Can't boot up at all as its corrupt.

Both wires are connected.

It's driving me insane. Half tempted to order a new card and try. It's only about a tenner on ebay

Are you sure the two wires to the wireless card are connected? Should find in device manager even without.

Remove and reseat card?

Was it 7 on previous HDD?

Put old HDD back in see if have wireless? If you do its driver related, find model of wifi card and go straight to manufacturers site.

nope, quickset has it set to on as well. Quickset only seems to show if its onoff via the fn+f2 thing

Dell quickset turning it off for power saving?

Yes a dongle will rule it out so to speak, because it'll add a totally new network adapter when correctly installed.

Odd issue though (and i'm sure you agree). Anything in the Bios?

If you have the time, photograph the different sections of the Bios and upload them for us to see, just in case we can see anything which is disabled (can't see how this would be the case though)

Nah haven't tried anything. Im assuming its ok as it worked prior to hdd crashing out.

Will a dongle actually rule it out tho? or do I need to try an identical board to check that out

Have you tried another WiFi card and/or dongle? You need to rule out that the one in it isn't damaged!

Anyone :( its pissing me right off!

Is there anything I can use todetermine if its detected? as device manager doesn't show it, but rarely shows the Ethernet one either

Nah Done that John.

Fn+F2 or one of the F keys. Wireless could be switched off.

Yea, I know.ive had no luck with laptops in the past year.

Yea, I removed/reseated it. All fine. It worked before I had the hdd fail on me

You are a computer disaster :lol:

Is it seated in the slot correctly/

oh and I even used data recovery on the old hdd, found the driver and installed that. Also couldn't find hardware :/

Ive just swapped a fooked hard drive in my old dell m5010, for a 60gb ssd.

Fresh install of windows 7 64 bit.

Installed all drivers listed on the dell site for this model. But the wifi ones all say that the hardware hasn't been found.

Ive removed the board and made sure im downloading the correct model which I am.

I cannot find it in device manager, only lists the Ethernet one, which works fine when plugged into router.

The wifi is turned on via bios and special key function.

Any ideas? Ive ran out of them all now. I even tried the driver updater tool that was in another post today.

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