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    Dell XPS m1340 Wifi Adapter

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by sergiobaiao, Feb 8, 2011.

  1. sergiobaiao

    sergiobaiao Newbie

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    Hi people,

    I've recently bought an Intel 6300 Ultimate-N wireless adapter on ebay and tried to exchange the default wireless adapter on my m1340 with it. The default adapter was a broadcom BCM94322HM8L (as said on the adapter's label). I can use the new adapter sucessfully on Linux, but when i boot into Windows 7 x64, if the wireless adapter is on by the hw button, windows 7 freezes or causes a BSOD. Do you know is there is any hwcl for this Dell model? Is the bios crippled in any way to prevent using devices other than the originals brands? I want the WiMAX working on my XPS m1340 but this way its not working.

    I also tested the 6300 adapter on my Acer 1410 netbook and it works flawless.
     
    sergiobaiao, Feb 8, 2011
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  2. Mr.High-Pinger

    Mr.High-Pinger Notebook Consultant

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    AFAIK, the drivers and the chipset (NVidia) causes these problems, think someone tried it way back and posted about it in the main s-xps 13 thread.

    Seems that the chipset have problems with other intel cards as well, why, no idea.
     
    Mr.High-Pinger, Feb 9, 2011
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