Latitude D610 Wireless Radio Issue

Okay, so someone I work with just bought an old off-lease Latitude D610 and it was alll effed up. So I cleaned it out, fresh installed Windows XP, and proceeded to do all the driver installs and updates offered on Dell's website for the model. Everything went mostly smoothly, but there's still one glaring issue: the wireless card doesn't seem to work.

I've tried every wireless driver that Dell has available, and none of them seem to work. Device Manager shows a driverless device as "PCI Simple Communications Device" but no matter what wireless driver I install, it doesn't take.

I've looked all over concerning this model and I've noticed that it can come with a few different wireless radios, but none of the drivers--neither the Dell Wireless drivers or the Intel PRO/Wireless drivers work. Is it possible the "PCI Simple Communications Device" isn't a wireless radio, and is something else instead? Or perhaps it's broken (the laptop is an off-lease disposal unit, after all)?

Help?

 

I would pull the Keyboard up and look under it and see that it actually has a WLAN card.

That device sounds like the 56K modem.

 

Look under the keyboard to see if you actually have a wifi card. If this is XP, the wifi card (without drivers) should still show up as an Ethernet or Network device in the Device Manager. PCI SCCD is probably the modem or something like that.

 

Yeah, I did that. It doesn't have a wireless card.

Mystery solved!

 

If you're looking for a wireless card, I have a spare Dell Wireless 1370 pulled from a D610 that I don't need anymore. PM if interested.