"riggor99999" <riggor99999@yahoo.com> wrote:

>My new Dell Latitude 610 has a built in "Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN
>Mini-PCI Card".
>
>I have a Linksys Wireless G card from when I used it with my old laptop - so
>I thought I would configure is as a backup in case the internal starting
>acting up.
>
>When I plugged in the Linksys card, the Dell laptop thought it was a "Dell
>TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card". It worked fine. I then changed the
>driver so that the Linksys card used the Linksys drivers.......the built in
>"Dell Wireless 1470 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card" stopped working, and the
>Linksys Wireless-G using the Linksys drivers also stopped working.
>
>Rolling back the driver for the Linksys Wireless-G card, so that the system
>thinks it is a "Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card" fixed everything so
>both the internal Dell card and the external Linksys using the Dell drivers
>all was working again.
>
>Anyone seen this?

I haven't seen that but i believe there are only three wireless chip
manufacturers in the world and everyone's products are packagings of
those three's. Since Dell doesn't really make any technology, chances
are those two are the exact same thing, just marketed and attached
differently. This was common with modems back when only two chip
manufacturers existed. A large range of modem drivers from various
manufacturers would work perfectly well with any one modem.


If two devices use the same driver and you remove one of them you
remove the software files that support both. I've seen this with
printers. Somebody removes an HP4 driver and all their HP4 printers
stop working. I think that's why both broke.



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