Just rolled my default wireless broadcom 5.100.245.20 driver to dell-supplied "DW1520 wireless-n wlan half mini card", version 5.100.235.12. I have periodically had times after waking my computer up from sleep where it wouldn't connect to any wireless networks. I would either have to reboot, or I would go through the pretty pointless win8 networking troubleshooter. It would usually find something to fix as an administrator--I don't remember right now what it would say, probably similar to the old "repair" feature in XP. Then at other times windows 8 would tell me that my wireless driver was bad and that I should look for an updated one; there isn't one. Today I got stuck at a wifi network where it wouldn't connect (because of compatibility issues). No one else was having issues with this network. I turned my phone to tether and decided to look at this driver issue closer. I downloaded the driver for my laptop, from dell's site, for windows 7, but it would fail to install, giving me the fatal error: Error "Setup.rul 60" has occured and Setup cannot continue. I then had the installer extract the files to a directory of my choosing. I then turned the compatibility mode on to Windows 7 for the Setup.exe file in that directory. Surprisingly it then successfully installed the older driver. I could then connect to this other network. I'm hoping this will also take care of the other issues I've faced. From what I've read on the internet, other people have been having problems with that default broadcom driver on windows 8. Many people seemed to have issues with slow speeds; I never did, but just had connection problems and compatibility to some wireless networks.
This is more of a what-I-did-to-fix-this-issue post, but am curious if anyone else is having similar issues...
Thanks!
This is more of a what-I-did-to-fix-this-issue post, but am curious if anyone else is having similar issues...
Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro, 64-bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Latitude E6510
- Internet Speed
- Insanely fast when at work, insanely slow when at home