No succes on wireless internet (imac 20")

[Crispijn]

{SOLVED}

[/EDIT] Thanks for all who helped. I reinstalled Windows and that did the job. Thanks again. [EDIT]

Hello,
Got most of it working after a day of work, but wireless internet without succes.
Have downloaded the Dell 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card driver as linked on the drivers page for my iMac 20", and the computer accepts it. It works fine, it says.

But there a no networks and the whole thing is unresponsive. Restore doesn't work, and I get an error on properties. "unknown error"

Is the Dell 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini Card driver the proper driver for the iMac 20" wireless carD?

Thanks for your help and keep up the good work

best regards

Crispijn

[sollner11]

dito here...

the link to dell says:
"Download this driver only if you reside in the United States. This release supports the Dell Wireless 1350, 1370, 1450,1390, 1490 series, and Dell TrueMobile 1300, 1400 series Mini Card, MiniPCI and PC Card devices (not USB)."

install process "cant find hardware"

i am german...what can i do?

[Crispijn]

ooopppssss.... didn't see that :( it has been a long day...
wie auch immer... Grüsse aus Holland...

Help would be greatly appreciated.
I have found a Thinkpad 11a/b/g driver that installs in the c:\drivers\win\wllanath/winXP_2 but the device management keeps saying the card is a DELL 1490 Card, even when I delete it and reboot!

What would be the proper driver in Europe?

Thanks / Danke / Bedankt!
Crispijn

[smartin53]

They should work unless Apple went weird and used a different card on the 20" iMac too. Are you manually pointing the Device Manager listing for the device at the driver directory or are you relying on the installer which doesn't work? I'll try to look into an alternative driver for everyone if I get a chance.

[Crispijn]

It seems to accept the Dell 1490 card, because it keeps getting back no matter how often I delete it. I can install automatically or manually or point to other drivers, it will keep on calling it "dell 1490", also now in the Plug-n-Play "New hardware found" balloons.
The thing is; I can't even get Properties on this thing, let alone connect.
Thanks for all help

[/EDIT] For Ethernet I have the Marvell Yukon driver installed, which seems to be working, only I can't check because I have no ethernet connection. The problem is that I can't get Properties on that connection as well; I get the "unexpected error" as well.
It seems the problem is somewhere else... but where? ;-( [EDIT]

[chisdasvinto2000]

dito here...

the link to dell says:
"Download this driver only if you reside in the United States. This release supports the Dell Wireless 1350, 1370, 1450,1390, 1490 series, and Dell TrueMobile 1300, 1400 series Mini Card, MiniPCI and PC Card devices (not USB)."

install process "cant find hardware"

i am german...what can i do?
Install manually. wireless drivers works in spain

[Crispijn]

Windows gave some errors during install "can't install .dll" etc etc, I guess I will use another Windows copy and retry.
I hope I can just copy the new version OVER the previous install.

thanks all of you for your help
good luck

Crispijn

[sollner11]

Install manually. wireless drivers works in spain

...tell me how....pls

[Crispijn]

...tell me how....pls

The Dell driver is absolutely the right one. But it only works as an EXE
Now that I have reinstalled Windows it works fine!
All the best,
Crispijn

[wallp]

Have dowloaded the installer but it says it can't find any compatible hardware. I'm on a iMac 20". How do I install manually? Any workarounds?

[glorfindeal]

Have dowloaded the installer but it says it can't find any compatible hardware. I'm on a iMac 20". How do I install manually? Any workarounds?

I have the same problem. How do you install it manually?


Glor

[dbudde]

Manual driver install instructions:

Run Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager
Right Click Other Devices>Ethernet controller. Select Update Driver.
Select No from the Hardware update wizard. Click next.
Select Install from a list or specific location. Click next
Select Don't search. I will choose the driver to install. Click next.
Browse to the driver you want (11/a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter). Click Next.
Click Yes to Update driver warning.
Click Finish.

[glorfindeal]

Your instructions did not work for me. When I go to the Other Devices tab, there is no ethernet controller icon. And from there it all falls a part.

Are you assuming that I extracted the dell drivers first? Where are you getting the 11/a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI express adapter driver from?


Glor

[dbudde]

Sorry, I didn't realize the imac drivers were different from the mbp drivers. I am using the IBM drivers referenced in the MPB driver list.

Regardless, you should be able to install whichever driver manually in a similar fashion. You may need to select another device first though. I don't know how the device manager represents the devices in the imac.

Yes, you need to extract the drivers first. Then apply them with the instructions I posted.

[wallp]

Well, ain`t Windoze sweet... Finally got the Dell driver installed. Followed DBuddes instructions, but chose the Dell driver instead (there was a network-something in the unknown devices list). Did a bit of back and forth, sweared, had a beer, came back, danced around and then all of a sudden I had a new network connection. Gee, I miss my Mac....