20 Most Recent Broadcom BCM94306MP - IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless Internal Mini-PCI Card (BCM94306MPWIRELESS) Questions & Answers

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From what I can see that laptop should already come with a dell 1470 A/B/G card internal. It is a mini-PCI card.
This card should work, but be aware it is not an "easy swap" where you would just slide one out and the broadcom in. On most laptops you would have to dissasemble a lot of the components in order to get into the area where the wifi card is held. I have done it on several laptops, but it is not at all an easy task for someone that is not used to building computers.
If it is of any help to you, I found this review that has a lot of info about the specs and such on your laptop.

Try downloading the wireless driver from HP WEB site.
You can download the drivers from the Compaq/HP WEBsupport/download page. Make sure you
select your model laptop and the XP orVista Windows version of the drivers you require and install them. Click onthis link to download the drivers: -
http://welcome.hp.com/country/au/en/cs/support.html

Your need to use one or the other wireless manager applications - Windows or the application that came with the Mini-PC Card (Broadcom BCM94306MP). Sounds like Windows is managing the device. Check your Wireless Network settings.

Maybe it is not compatible with your PC.Did you install the card where it suppose to be?

As per the information provided, it seems the device is not detected by the Computer. Even if the driver is not installed, it should show up on the Device Manager with the yellow labelled texts as "Unknown Device". First, turn of the Machine and remove the card, clean the gold contacts with an eraser (pencil eraser) and reseat it. Now boot up the system and check whether it's detected or not. If the driver is installed and you can remove it, then uninstall it, reboot the system and try again. Search/Scan for device/hardware from the Device Manager, if it's working fine and there's no problem with the motherboard, it should be detected. If you it doesn't detected, you need to try it on another laptop or you need to try with another Card on your laptop so that you can find out the culprit. In many cases, it's related to the card, so you first need to check it and make sure it's 100% working.

If it's working on another system, then there's must be problem on your motherboard, you can still try with another card and check. If nothing is helpful, there's no option for you to get it worked on your laptop, you might need to replace the motherbaord (if it's the cause), but I don't recommend.

I would be better help to you if you can let me know the operating system installed on your computer.

Good luck.

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http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-compaq-presario-f700-notebook/
in the left you can see there is a switch that cna turn on and off the wireless

I believe what your looking for can be found here:

http://www.opendrivers.com/driver/232571/broadcom-bcm94301mp-bcm94306mp-bcm94309mp-driver-3.140.16-windows-98se-me-2000-xp-free-download.html

please try this:
http://cr.am/framed.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.dell.com%2Fsupport%2Fdownloads%2Fdownload.aspx%3Fc%3Dus%26cs%3D19%26l%3Den%26s%3Ddhs%26releaseid%3DR115321%26SystemID%3DINS_PNT_P4_5150%26servicetag%3D18Y9341%26os%3DWW1%26osl%3Den%26deviceid%3D5338%26devlib%3D0%26typecnt%3D0%26vercnt%3D15%26catid%3D5%26impid%3D%2D1%26formatcnt%3D1%26libid%3D5%26fileid%3D152055&ref=driverguide

i have found that they are compatible. give it a try

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I'm presuming this is in a laptop. Try Fn+F2. If not look for a key with an aerial symbol and press Fn and that

your too far from it.

go to DRIVERGUIDE.COM,this is the file that you need i just got it last night BCM4306MP_BCM4306KFB.zip if you check the wireless card you will see this letters in the chip, good luck

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