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    Issues with 2013 Alienware 14 and the wireless adapter

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by kyomagi, Apr 3, 2014.

  1. kyomagi

    kyomagi Notebook Enthusiast

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    My machine has the killer 1202 wireless lan and nothing i do will get the thing to work. I did a fresh install onto windows 8 from 7 and been having issues. I looked at dell and i cannot find the driver for the life of me. Any help?
     
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    Is it not working at all? Is the machine see'ing the card? Is there a big yellow ? mark in the device manager? Does it list it in the device manager? If it is showing does it show your wireless router? Can it connect? How far away are your from the router?
     
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    I think its seeing the card, there is a giant yellow tag near a bunch of items in the device manager
     
    kyomagi, Apr 3, 2014
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    I would recommend you to download the latest one from the manufacturer's site. Also look for the rest of the drivers that you are missing. After a Windows Installation you have to do that all the time.
     
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    ok so i got wireless working by installing 7 then updating to 8.1, however, im having a new issue.

    sometimes my laptop will not connect to the net even though it shows full bars on the router and its connected.
     
    kyomagi, Apr 5, 2014
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    still getting the issue, it says its connected and then it says resolving host and then cannot connect to network.

    two different routers, same issue. seems to be ok plugged it but that defeats the purpose
     
    kyomagi, Apr 6, 2014
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