I ran the wizard. I'm not sure if I did it right. It wanted me to plug a USB flash drive in and then then plug the drive into the access point.

However here's something I noticed. I saw that after installing that updated driver, ther is a wireless configuration utility in the control panel. I ran it and clicked Add Network and it tells me this:

"The Dell wireless WLAN card is still disabled. Slide the wireless ON/OFF switch to enable it or press Fn-F2 to enable it."

Now I know there's no on off switch, but I did press Fn-F2 and nothing happened.

I also noticed that the "2" key has a blue icon of what looks like a radio tower or something which makes me think maybe Fn-2 is supposed to turn on wireless? But I tried pressing that too and nothing happened.


Edit: Visual Aid
http://www.gottabemobile.com/content...DF/image_2.png

try shift + 2

Fn-2 is the proper key combo.
Do you see a wireless icon in the system tray?

Fn-2 seems to do nothing. In the system tray, I see the wireless icon with a red X on it, and it says "Wireless Connection 3 not connected. Right Click here for more options"

Not sure if that's the icon you mean, but I see no other icons related to wireless.

That's the icon. I don't think there's any visible sign when you toggle it.
What happens when you right-click?
You should get a list of wireless networks.

I right click and there is a popup menu with the following options:

Change Windows Firewall Settings
View Network Connections
Repair
View Available Wireless Networks



I did try hitting repair, but as it goes through the repair process it gets to the "Connecting to the Wireless Network" step, it fails.

I also tried turning off the windows firewall but this also had no effect.

Clicking on View Available Wireless Networks simply brings up the screen tat says it cannot find any wireless networks.

Toggle the wireless adapter (Fn-2) and try to view again.
If that doesn't work, and your adapter says it's functioning, you need to get in touch with Dell. This has always worked flawlessly for me, so either your configuration is way off, or there's a hardware problem.

Hold down the button Fn and F2 at the same time then its complete

ok this is an easy one
there are 2 ways to activate the card 1 is with the combination of the function button+ where you see a (((( signal bar on the end of the key

the second is to find the switch at the base near the keyboard (its usually where you close the laptop there shopuld be a switch just below the opening swich for the laptop

Better yet check two locatrions
the front of the laptop shoukld have a slide swith for the wifi card
most dell's do ...... and second ...it can be activated by one of the f function cards
it has a (((((*))))) symbol like this one or a !)))) icon on the key
that will turn it on and off ....good luck