Dell highly recommends applying this update as soon as possible. The update contains changes to improve the reliability and availability of your Dell system.
Important Information
Dell Requests Customers Apply Urgent Fix for Dell Wireless Wi-Fi Cards to Address Security Vulnerability.
Issue: In normal operation wireless cards receive data packets identifying the presence of new wireless networks. Broadcom-based wireless cards, including select Dell Wireless cards offered on Latitude, Mobile Precision, Inspiron and XPS notebooks, are subject to a security vulnerability whereby a hacker may manipulate the data packets received by the notebook in such a way as to trigger an error condition. This error condition could result in the hacker having system level privileges to the notebook. In some cases this could allow the hacker to run any programs or access any files they wish on the targeted notebook.
Compatibility
Systems
Operating systems
Inspiron 1501 Inspiron 6000 Inspiron 640m / E1405 Inspiron 9400/E1705 XPS/Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Inspiron 700m Inspiron 710m Inspiron B120 Inspiron 1300/B130 Inspiron 6400/E1505 Latitude X300 Latitude D400 Latitude D410 Latitude D420 Latitude D505 Latitude D600 Latitude D610 Latitude D800 Latitude 110L Latitude 120L Latitude 131L Latitude ATG D620 Latitude D510 Latitude D520 Latitude D620 Latitude D810 Latitude D820 Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M65 Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M70 Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M90 Latitude X1 Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M20 XPS M1210 XPS/Inspiron M140/630m XPS/Inspiron M170 XPS M1710 XPS M2010
Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP x64
Fixes and Enhancements
The Dell Wireless WLAN Card has the following features:
IEEE 802.11a operation (5-GHz frequency band) IEEE 802.11g operation (2.4-GHz frequency band) Network data rate of up to 54 Mbit/s Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery support Cisco Compatible Extensions v4 support IPv6 support Smart card authentication support, including authentication during single sign-on Dell Wireless WLAN Card Utility for managing your wireless networks, running hardware tests, and getting wireless network-related information Wireless Network Connection Settings tool for connecting to advanced infrastructure networks Wireless Network Wizard for connecting to basic infrastructure networks and ad hoc networks and creating ad hoc networks
New for this release
Windows XP 64-bit support Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-Card only: Draft IEEE 802.11n operation (2.4-GHz frequency band and 5-GHz frequency band) with a network data rate of up to 270 Mbit/s for 40 MHz bandwidth channel and 130 Mbit/s for 20 MHz bandwidth channel
Fixes a security vulnerability related to wireless beacons
NOTE: Not all Dell Wireless WLAN Card models support IEEE 802.11a (5-GHz) or IEEE 802.11n operation.
The Dell Wireless WLAN Card works with any IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ wireless router/AP or wireless client network adapter.
Installation Instructions
Hard Drive Installation (via WinZip) with Setup.exe File for R140747.EXE
Download
1.Click Download Now, to download the file. 2.When the File Download window appears, click Save (Windows XP users will click Save) this program to disk and click OK. The Save In: window appears. 3.From the Save In: field, click the down arrow then click to select Desktop and click Save. The file will download to your desktop. 4.If the Download Complete window appears, click Close. The file icon appears on your desktop.
Install
1.Double-click the new icon on the desktop labeled R140747.EXE. 2.The Self-Extracting window appears and prompts you to extract or unzip to C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R140747. Write down this path so the executable (I.e. Setup.exe) file can be found later. 3.The Self-Extractor window appears. 4.Click OK. 5.After completing the file extraction, if the Self-Extractor window is still open, close it. 6.Click the Start button and then click Run. 7.Type C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R140747 in the Open textbox and then click OK. 8.Follow the on-screen installation instructions.
