Not sure if anyone will ever actually find this article useful, as we’re dealing with ancient technology here, but I figured I’ll write it out just in case. I found an old Dell Precision Workstation Laptop M4400 and decided to wipe it out and prep it to donate to a local charity.
Universal termsrv.dll patch windows server 2008 r2 download. I figured it’s not a bad device even though it’s 8+ years old; 2.4 GHz dual core CPU, 8 GB of memory, a 300 GB SSD that I had put in it at some point, 1920×1200 WUXGA screen, nearly every port you can imagine minus HDMI, and a DVD burner. I bought a copy of Windows 10 Pro (since Home stupidly doesn’t come with BitLocker) to replace the Win7 that was installed, and did the install.After install, Windows Update had been running for 12 hours and still hadn’t finished installation. I know Windows updates are ridiculous, but 12 hours?!
I discovered it appeared to be a networking issue. Pinging even the default gateway was showing about 80% packet loss, and responses I did get were seeing anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds latency. This was connected to a Cisco AP with most flavors of wireless enabled minus the legacy 802.11b speeds. Oddly, if I enabled hot spot on my iPhone, the issue went away. No idea if that’s a result of the iPhone not supporting something the laptop was trying on the Cisco network, or supporting something in a different manner that disagreed with the drivers.In any case, I began digging into the WLAN NIC settings. This laptop has a Dell 1510 Wireless card, which is based on the Broadcom 4322 chipset. It’s one of the first 802.11n adapters, so it, in theory, supports a/b/g MIMO at varying speeds.
I cycled through a massive number of settings, and not a single one affected things in a positive manner. ↓. roisonI faced same problem. Thank you.I found that, this is an official issue confirmed from Dell:latest driver download for DW1510(5.100.235.12):driver support win vista and win 7. If you are using win 10 (like me), following this steps:1. Unzip it (with 7-zip) in a folder. For example, D:DownloadsNetworkDriverWD35FWN5.100.235.12A37.2.
Open “Device Manager” , Select “Network Adapters”.3. Right click DW1510, Select “Update Driver”.4.
Select “Browse my computer for driver software”5. Select “Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer”6. Click on the Have Disk button, On the Install From Disk window that appears, click or touch the Browse button.7. Choose the wlan subfolder of unzipped driver folder. For example, D:DownloadsNetworkDriverWD35FWN5.100.235.12A37DriversWin7WL8.
Choose this newly added DW1550 driver of broadcom. Once the driver update process is complete, you should see a Windows has successfully updated your driver software window.10. That’s all.reference.
Drivers have to be installed in the following sequence -Win XP SP2 patch -Chipset -Ricoh -Audio -Video -Ethernet -Touchpad -Bluetooth (Dell 355) -Wi-Fi (Dell Wi-Fi 1397)-Manual steps to install the Wi-Fi –1. Extract the files normally2. In device manager - Right click on Network Controller3. Select Next - Choose to install driver from a specific path4.
While searching for compatible driver in a specific location - Browse and add the extracted folder (C:DELLDriversR189133Driver)Modem -Modem should get installed automatically when extracted.