Dell :: Design Defect On 1420 Wi-Fi Catcher Activity Indicator?
Dec 1, 2007
I now have two identically configured (same hardware and software) Inspiron 1420 (new) and I can't get the Wireless Activity Indicator light to come on. I've talked with Tech Support three times (Level 1 and 2). They thought it was the switch ans sent an in-home technician to replace the bottom casing of my first unit. When the Technician realized that the switch was fine and the indicator (LED light) was not coming on, I requested a new replacement unit. The second unit arrived with the same non-functioning LED. As I mentioned in a previous post, I've gone to Staples office supply store that now sells Dell 1521 & 1721 laptops and both store display model's LED activity indicator lights up when both units are off and the switch is pushed to the ">>" position. Having already insured (with Tech Support walking me through it) that Quickset as well as the BIOS have the Wi Fi Catcher enabled and Wireless settings enabled. There are no problems connecting to wireless networks when the laptop is on and the switch does turn wireless On and Off. Question to all Inspiron 1420 owners, how many of you can get your wireless activity indicator to light up when your laptop is OFF? If enough owners respond that their LED indicators don't work, maybe we can get Dell to admit a design defect. At this point, I don't know what else to do to get Dell to fix this issue and I assume they won't keep sending me new replacement laptops until I find one whose LED works.
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Nov 12, 2011
I have a dell inspiron 1420 and my internet is not working at all. it is picking up the wireless router at my home and i have full bars but when i go on to the internet explorer or google chrome it saying "cannot load page check connection". It was working fine yesterday but it started today.
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Feb 5, 2012
My dell inspiron 1420 wifi and bluetooth stopped working. I can't pick up and wirless signals and i get a message saying wireless capability is turned off. I have tried reinstalling the driver, disabling the wireless and re enabling it. I done just about everything but nothing seems to work.
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Sep 16, 2011
Setting up a wireless router but now im starting to think the reason the connection is so bad is because of my computer. I have a dell inspiron 1420 and sometimes the internet is fine and then it doesnt work at all and says cannont connect to primary dns server. Also i ran a diagnostics on my wlan wireless card and it says gateway ip ping, internet ip ping, and dns ip ping all failed. The wireless says it has 5 bars but I usually have to disconnect and reconnect for it to work and it only works for about 15 seconds before it slows down again
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:Usersdrew>ipconfig/all
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : drewd-PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
[code]...
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Nov 11, 2012
I have a Dell Inspiron 1420. It had a bad NVIDIA card so I replaced the motherboard with a VOSTRO 1400. I moved my Hard drive, memory and wireless card to the new motherboard. I have all the drivers in and working except the Network Controller, therfore no internet. Where can I get the correct driver for this?
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May 6, 2012
but having trouble connecting wirelessly to the internet from my Inspiron 1420. I can see my routernetwork and the signal strength is good, but when I try to connect it says that it cannot connect. When I press connect diagnose problem it quickly opens a small window stating that windows could not connect to "Kat-wifi" (my network. I have tried rebooting the computer as well as rebooting the router by uplugging and waiting the 30 sec to 1 min and then retrying but to no avail. When I connect the computer to an ethernet cable I AM able to connect to the interent. I even atempted to manually run a test with the wireless and it passed everything except the PING test. it stated NO RESPONSE DHCP SERVER. I tried then to go to the screen of Wireless Network Conenction Properties and checked the IP Version 4 (TCP/IPv4 and both the obtain IP address and Obtain DNS server automatically are already on.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:UsersKatia>ipconfig /all
[Code].....
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Aug 23, 2009
I went to the Dell Drivers and Downloads site in order to get a driver for my bluetooth. The driver I found was C:DELLDRIVERSR140135, I checked the compatibility and it is supposed to be compatible with my system and Windows Vista 32 bit. However, whenever I try to install it, a window pops up instructing me to push Fn+F2 or the Radio on/off switch. Fn+F2 does not work and there is no radio switch. I tried to start over from the beginning, now it's telling my I need Windows Vista to install this driver ... I am using Windows Vista. I checked the Device Manager ... no exlamation points or question marks.
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Sep 27, 2011
I'm on an Inspiron 1420 laptop running Windows Vista.
I need to know which driver I need for my Dell 1390 Wireless Card because it stops working while I'm watching Netflix.
In case you all need them, here are a few of my system specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 duo T7300 @ 2.00 GHz
Memory (RAM): 2.00 GB
Graphics Card (?): Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family
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Feb 16, 2012
Replaced the HDD in my wife's Inspiron 1420, Vista, Intel dual core T7250s
Broadcom 802.11n adapter
Kept all the disks shipped with the lappy, Prepped the HD per the media rules, loaded windows and the mediadirect and the driver resource CD.. they all had autoexecs and seem to run fine. Failed to connect to the net.. checked it out on device mgr, found the code 10 fail.. All other drivers seemed to have loaded..
tried to update the driver.. it said it already had the correct driver. - fail
DLed the Broadcom driver to a thumb and installed it - no difference. Rebooted.. several times during all this.
Read here it might be install order - thought I might try it manually. Looked for Intel T7250 drivers.. "not currently available" here.
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Jun 5, 2013
i have a little problem with on SG 200-08 switch. From time to time, the switch restarts, all network connections get lost. And sometimes, some ports of the switch switch of, no network connection on this ports al possible until the next restart. I have not changed the configuration at the times there is a restart.So, i think there is a hardware defect in this switch. Unfortunately the dealer, from whom the switch was purchased is insolvent.
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Jun 28, 2012
why is my wirelsss indicator light red P775 Toshiba?
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Jan 31, 2012
My wireless netwok indicator on the bottom of my screen show no connection. It says I need the WEP key.
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Nov 17, 2011
I have Comcast and my modem is indicating (blue light ) that my signal incoming is weak but my out going is fine. I tried resetting the modem ...no change . Is my problem with the modem or Comcast ?
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Oct 29, 2011
I have cisco catalyst 6509 with 2 x WS-X6k-SUP2-2GE. on the supervisor module is a switchload led indicator . I switch has never load according to load indicator.
Do i need to enable this in the switch config. The switch is running catos
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Jan 15, 2009
We have a new DCS-5220 that we're playing with, seeing what we can do with it, and have a number of questions as well as one possible bug to report. I was somewhat surprised when tier 3 support said this was the best place to cover them all - including the bug.We are using firmware version 1.02, which is what the camera came with.
In the webgui, under Configuration > Tools > System > "Turn off the LED indicator" this is completely ignored by the camera. The red power LED is always on, and the green status LED flashes as long as it has a network connection. This is clearly a bug.What is the root password?Is there a URL we can pole for a static image? (ie.url... which would trigger a snapshot every time the URL is requested)Are there any shell commands for motor control? If so, what are they?Is there a shell command to retrieve logged in users? If so, what is it?Is there a shell command for controlling the LED activity? It would be really nice if the status LED lit green when there was someone logged on to the webgui. Perhaps this is the intended activity, and it not doing so should be filed away as part of the above bug..
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Dec 16, 2011
I'm building this network and I stumbled upon a problem that I don't understand. Here is how my config looks:
PC -----------vlan5-------Cisco 3560----trunk3-5----Cisco AP1420
Vmware guest
Configuration of 3560:
interface Vlan3
description ID-180, wifi1
ip address x.x.x.x 255.255.255.224
ip access-group 115 in
[code] .......
Configuration of WIFI AP:
interface FastEthernet0
no ip address
no ip route-cache
[code]....
PC and vm ware are plugged in port 5 and 6, wifi in port 7. There if no V LAN ID set on the PC, but there is V LAN ID set on the VM ware esx interface. If I try to ping WIFI from PC or esx, ping doesn't get through. If I plug WIFI to port 5 or 6, I get access it.
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Nov 21, 2011
I have configured a GRE tunnel and set the IP MTU to 1420 then I received this message. %Warning: MTU set 1420 is greater than default 1396, fragments will happen, What and where is this default MTU? Ive never set one and it doesnt look like any values Ive encountered for the MTU before. (its an 1841) Even a link to a document would be fantastic here as I cant find any info so far.
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Aug 2, 2012
I was examining my router's logs the other day and I noticed a recurring entry stating that my PC's IP address was sending packets to the IP 172.16.30.115 on port 80, and that the router was dropping them.Except for the fact that my home LAN uses the 192.168.1.0/24 network EXCLUSIVELY. That is all it has ever used since this router was set up, and the only other networks we have EVER used are 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24. So why, I wondered, is my PC repeatedly sending (presumably) HTTP traffic to a private IP that is not and never has been on my network?I wasn't worried about what these connections might be doing, since I figured they couldn't do anything, but I was kind of concerned about what was generating this traffic in the first place. So I downloaded Wireshark and ran a capture for 30 minutes. Upon completion, I filtered results to show only packets that contained the IP 172.16.30.115, as either the source or destination IP.Based on the router logs, I expected to see three packets with my PC's source IP address and a random source port sent to 172.16.30.115, port 80 every 10 minutes.And I did see that. These are TCP packets, and they appear to be completely empty. The only thing I noticed about them is that the SYN flag is set. I don't know what the significance of that is, if any, but that's what I noticed.
What I DIDN'T expect to see were the packets that had a source IP of 172.16.30.115. These packets (also TCP) had the ACK and RST flags set, and they contained the text "Go away, we're not home." So not only are there packets being sent to an IP that cannot possibly exist within my network, but there are also packets coming FROM the impossible IP telling me to go away.All of that is scary enough on its own. But then I hopped on Google and did a search for the phrase "go away, we're not home," and almost every result was related to the decline of the Storm worm. After reading about Storm, I was more confused, not less. In its heyday, Storm used UDP traffic to communicate between peers, and my mystery traffic was TCP. Storm usually did not use well-known port numbers, such as 80, which I read was part of what made it so resilient. Not to mention that the most recent posts I could find regarding the Storm worm were dated 2010 and were about the possibility of a second Storm, and I didn't get this PC until May 2011. Plus, even if we ignore all of this and operate under the assumption that I have the Storm worm on my PC, that still doesn't explain the fact that the traffic from my computer is heading to a private IP that is NOT, I repeat, NOT being used on my network, my router says it's dropping this traffic, but my PC is still somehow receiving a response from an IP address that 1) isn't on the network and 2) can't be having any packets forwarded to it, since the router says it's dropping the traffic.So, operating under the worst-case scenario assumption, I used two different virus scanners (not simultaneously, of course) to do the deepest scans they are capable of doing. They both turned up completely clean. In fact, I've had AVG Free installed on my computer since I got it, and even if you look at my virus history you only see a few tracking cookies, a corrupted EXE from the Skype setup folder, and a Trojan dropper that I never even ran because I thought the file properties seemed fishy so I scanned it and promptly deleted it. So I now have to go back to operating under the assumption that I do NOT have the Storm worm, and I am back to the drawing board.
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Mar 30, 2012
REmote desktop connection times out when there is no activity, I mean I open rdp to work computer from home ,If I am away from the computer I am not using keyboard , after few minutes I get a blank screen and if it is very longthe connection times out and I have to relogin to my computer, I need suggestion on how to retain the connection so that no blank screen appears and I alos dont loose connection .
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Dec 28, 2012
I heard my brothers' conversation in our house. One was asking another, if he is downloading things. The other one replied, saying no, he didn't. And then the one that was asking said, he knew he was lying. He can detect and monitor that person's IP address to know enough if the other person is downloading or not.
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May 24, 2011
Sometimes when I actively use the LAN (copy a file or stream media), my PC loses connection to both the internet and LAN. It doesn't always happen though. I can always fix it by opening network connections and disabling Local Area Connection and then re-enabling it. However, if I don't do this, the connection stays off indefinitely. The PC that loses connection is on Windows 7 64-bit with Asus P5K integrated ethernet controller with latest drivers. Modem/router is Linksys WAG320N.
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May 11, 2011
During the last month or so my internet connection keeps stalling and will not work until I repair the connection, however I am still connected to the network, I just can't send or receive packets. In particular when I am downloading things, it will stop after 2MB is downloaded or 300MB, it just random. After sending/receiving 7,000 packets or 700,00. This only happens to my computer with the wifi adapter. Prior to this I didn't have any issues for over two years. My phone and laptop still connect via wifi to the internet. And the xbox and blu ray player are connected via ethernet and have not had any problems. The log for my router states "deauthenticate reason 3", which I have found to mean "The access point went offline, deauthenticating the client". So, I figured that the issue could be the wifi adapter which I installed on the laptop and that too never had an issue. I used inSSIDer 2.0 to see the close by networks and changed channels to get away from the strongest ones. I tried switching to wireless n only instead of g and n, the problem still persists.
Then I figured the issue must be my computer and no malware, spyware, adware nor any virus was found. The same thing happened while in safe mode. I also tried the winsock fix to no avail, reinstalled the wifi adapter and made sure all firmware for the router and adapter were up to date as well as XP. I also tried with my firewall shutdown but I still loose the connection. So I then reluctantly did a clean install and even with the bare essentials it still stopped working. I also bought a 15ft USB extension to get a better signal but still, even though I have a good or excellent signal I still have problems. My latest thought was this was the only machine running firefox 4 so I went back to 3 and that didn't either. I checked my usage with my ISP and I am no where near the 250GB a month.
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Dec 25, 2011
I keep getting disconnected and blocked from using even LAN on my computer. This happens whenever I visit certain websites. For instance, I registered on a website that has me "kept signed in", and whenever I click to view that website, it partially loads and then for precisely 1 minute any network activity I try (like visiting my router configuration page, or clicking refresh or home to load google) will not go through. Only after that one minute is over with, I can resume browsing that website; however, if I leave it for too long, and then return, the same thing happens.
I've also noticed that if I sign out of that website and then visit it, that disconnect issue won't happen.But that isn't the case with other websites, as they require no accounts and are just pages with news and other stuff.I tried uninstalling and reinstalling my ethernet drivers, tried flushing dns, renewing ip, releasing and some other /cmd stuff that I found online.This also doesn't happen on any of the computers connected to my router (although, they are all using wireless - I am using cable to router).I'm on windows 7 x64, using a realtek ethernet card, Nod32 security suite (think it may be the settings on this thing? I set everything to super safe settings so I don't get any dumb viruses). Windows is updated (well, at least 3-4 months ago it was updated). I have no idea what is causing this, and why the precise 60 second interval until I regain access to the internet.I'm using Firefox, but this also happens on IE8 or 9 or whatever I have installed, so I don't think it's a browser issue.Things like facebook, youtube, pennyarcade and other junk work, but as soon as I go to google looking for, say, apartment rentals and open some pages, one of the links in the search results is bound to make my connection freeze.
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Aug 2, 2012
My office uses a Windows domain network. Is it possible for them to track which IP/Port I'm using through some network software. Sometimes I do SSH access to my server. Can they get notified any how about this ? We use Windows XP SP2.
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Jan 4, 2013
I am wondering if I can log all activity on my network. Right now I can log activity with MAC addresses, but if I add a device I have to keep adding MAC address. I also have to have several policies because I can only put about 7 MAC address in per policy.
I noticed the option to add 'other machines' and I am not sure how this works. I have tried it and can't get it to work.
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Jul 27, 2012
We presently have a guest wireless solution in place using 4400/5508 WLC controllers authenticating guests via a NAC Guest server. This has functioned well for the last year or so, but now our security team has requested that we begin logging guest activity. I already have RADIUS accounting set up on the WLAN configuration pointing to the NGS,I have added the NGS to the syslog set up on the controller (I have tried various syslog levels) but I am not receiving any guest activity info in the reports on the NGS. Any way for getting this data?
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Apr 29, 2012
we recently purchased a sg300-52. i was told i would need to setup a port trunk to connect it our main catalyst. However, i was able to connect a patch cable on the two devices and ping endpoint devices on both switches. I also noticed that the activity lights are constantly blinking. I'm not sure why. Is there something i can do to slow the activity light? it blicks constantly even in times of very low activity by the endpoint.
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Apr 28, 2011
Is there any way to hide my activity on the network? My network administrator monitors our network activity, specifically chat.
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Oct 7, 2012
detect botnet acitivity from network point of view.
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Jan 20, 2013
iam opening a cyber cafe next week.i have one computer (main server) which is connected to 5 monitors by an device named Ncomputing device and software.i have one cpu which is connected to others monitors.my question is how to see other 5 computer" s activity by my host pc?
PC SPECS:
intel i3 2120
h61 mobo
windows 7
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Feb 17, 2011
I recently received an email from my internet provider showing illegal movie downloads through my modem. I have a wireless router hooked up (with password security) for my roommates to use and would like to monitor their internet activities to know who is downloading these movies.
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Jul 26, 2011
I wonder if there is a free programme that will let me look at network traffic/activity on my network, i'm having real issues with with access and the slow down of the network. Unfortunately my switches are not managed.
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Jan 2, 2013
This morning I lost wifi connectivity. I reset the router and powered off and on the modem along with the router but to no avail. The blue stripe no longer shows on the top corner of the machine.I am able to connect to the internet using the ethernet ports on the router. I also tried to get into programming using 192.168.2.1 but it is timing out.
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