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Wifi Driver Update
I have wifi driver R228308 installed on my Inspiron 1555 (after I just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything), this gives me ver 12.04.000 installed. I then tried installing R246753 which is suppose to upgrade me to ver 13.00.000. When it runs it asks me if I am sure that I want to upgrade and I say yes then I get another screen popup which says "This application must be installed using the Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless installer. This installation will exit."
Please tell me how I proceed to get ver 13 installed.
Dell-Rajesh R
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September 18th, 2013 17:00
Hi Neil154,
The Intel Software version is 16.1.1 and the wireless card driver’s version is 14.3.2.1.
Refer the following link for more information:
http://dell.to/1gAynD1
Please reply for further questions.
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September 16th, 2013 11:00
Hi Neil154,
May I know the Operating system installed?
From where did you try and install the drivers?
Click on the link below to install the latest version of Intel Wireless drivers:
http://intel.ly/15y2UA0
Awaiting your response!
Neil154
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September 16th, 2013 13:00
Thanks, I was able to upgrade using the link you provided. The strange thing is that I got the errors using the drivers from Dell. I then tried using the Intel site to automatically detect my driver and it said I was up to date but I did not have ver 16 installed so obviously that did not work correctly.
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Now for an additional question. The driver & wifi from your link iis for ver16 which shows up that way in my "Programs and Features" but when I go into my "Device Manager" the Wifi 5100 driver shows as version 14.3.2.1 Can you explain that to me?Thanks for your help
BTW I am using Win 7 64 bit
Dell-Rajesh R
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September 17th, 2013 19:00
Hi Neil154,
It should actually show Version 16.1.1.
Before installing the wireless drivers, did you uninstall the previous one?
Now install the latest version.
Let me know the status.
Neil154
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September 18th, 2013 12:00
I know at one point Intel told me to manually unistall previous driver and I did that from "Programs and Feature". Now when I look at "Programs and Features" it shows "Intel Proset/Wireless Software" Version 16.1.1 but when I look at my adapter in the device manager (Intel wifi Link5100 AGN) it shows version 14.3.2.1.
I don't understand the two different version numbers
Neil154
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September 18th, 2013 18:00
Thanks for all your help.
I also tried to click on the "yes" that your response answered the question but it would not register the "yes"