Hooking Dell Latitude to the phone line HOW?

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oneyeehaw

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Ok...... I do not consider myself a stupid person but this laptop I bought off off EBAY has me stumped.

I wanted to simply plug my phone line into it but I cannot find a place to plug it to...............It does however have a wireless card from Trendnet.

Someone please tell me HOW to do it...........PLEEEASE Do I net some other hardware??????????????


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>KAren
 
do you have sbc dsl or sbc dial up?

i just looked on the sbc site and i dont even see them offering 56k. are you sure its not an ethernet cable you are trying to plug in?
 
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Yes, I have SBC dsl.
The problem is I cannot find the hole that the phone line needs on my laptop. Thats weird isn't it???

>Karen
 
its not connected via telephone line. the telephone jack should connect to the modem and then the ethernet cable should connect to your laptop. if you have the black speedsteam modem then the ethernet cable should be yellow.
 
buy yourself a wireless router,it will just be simpler over-all.

but if you don't want to do that, and u can't find any line-in thingy, u might just be screwed. so it will probably be easier to get a wireless router and use that wireless card.
 
I have the latitude cpi a. The laptop did come with a wireless card and I now have a wireless router. Bad news?? Cannot get the card to talk to the router or vis versa.............anyhow I am now online, but have purchased the pc card with the ethernet cat 6 adapter. I am plugged into the router and have internet access (typing this response on my laptop)

My card is by trend net and the router is by linksys..... wouldnt you know trendnet is out untill monday ...............?! Probably messed up the configuration but have spent hours trying to figure it out to no avail!!!

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

>Karen
 
yes. I reinstalled the drivers because the card was already in the laptop when I purchased it. Still get not response to router. The bottom right corner says something like "cable is unplugged"............???

>K
 
blonde_seashell said:
I think I mentioned this somewhere else, but anyway... My golden rule: NEVER ever ever ever buy anything off E-bay.
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if they have a good rating theres no reason not to.
 
Just to update........not matter what I do I cannot get the card to talk to the router. I have gotten a wire adapter and am using that. :mad:

I don't like the service Trendnet has given me either!


I am going to bite the bullet and buy another card NOT from Trendnet. Who do you recommend???? :confused:

>Karen
 
linksys are very good with wireless cards, routers, or just about any other networking device... you may pay a little more, but they have never given me any problems
 
alanuofm said:
did you install the drivers for the wireless card?
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Do I need to download the driver from Dell.com???? Dosent the driver come om the disk that came with the card??? :confused:

You guys are great!!


>Karen
 
thats what I thought............... I am going to buy another wireless card since the seller from ebay won't respond to me asking him to take the old card back :mad:

>Karen
 
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