E6410 Owner's Thread

[Pylon757]

Actually, it's probably Windows installing updates again...

[GoodBytes]

If you are going to put the computer to sleep THAT long, hibernate it. Or enable hybrid sleep. At least you'll save battery life, and not screw up the remaining time estimate system of the battery, and need to recalibrate more often than needed.

[John Ratsey]

Has anyone had their E6410 waking up from sleep by itself in the middle of the night? A number of times I put the E6410 into sleep for the night and in the morning I find that it has no battery, which means that it probably turned on by itself sometime in the night...

Event Viewer's System Log should show what has woken the computer up and when.

John

[GoodBytes]

You can also open the Command Prompt, and type: powercfg /lastwake, hit enter, and it will tell you the last device that woke up the computer.

In addition, you can type (must open Command Prompt as true Admin) cd C:\, hit Enter, and type powercfg /energy, and it will generate a full, nice report on any sleep related problems, at C:\ drive.

[John Ratsey]

In addition, you can type (must open Command Prompt as true Admin) cd C:\, hit Enter, and type powercfg /energy, and it will generate a full, nice report on any sleep related problems, at C:\ drive.

Petentially very useful, but I get a message (W7-64) about energy.dll could not be loaded.

John

[longview]

So, the 5530 doesn't work here at europe? We have the same mobile communication here at estonia like u norwegians have i think.
Hows the signal compared wwan card vs usb dongle-maybe u know.

Btw thanks for all the other answers as well.

Oliver

I'd recommend buying the 5540 if you're in Europe, especially in light of Johns problems with the 5530.

If in doubt you should just email Dell and ask which card is recommended, then buy the card on eBay from a reputable seller.

[vivithemage]

How can I get Dell Connection Manager to manage my wireless/wired connections? We're getting a lot of users with duplicate IP's, becuase they are on wireless and wired connections.

[GKDesigns]

How can I get Dell Connection Manager to manage my wireless/wired connections? We're getting a lot of users with duplicate IP's, because they are on wireless and wired connections.

DCP Connection Manager does not manage IP addresses. This is done by a DHCP server on your LAN, often built into routers. Wired and wireless clients are issued a unique IP address from a range of IP addresses administered by the DHCP server.

Duplicate IP addresses suggests multiple DHCP servers issuing IP addresses from the same range. If so, perhaps reconfigure each DHCP server to use its own address range. Or reconsider your network.

GK

[vivithemage]

That isn't the issue.

I want software to turn off the wireless, when they have LAN hooked up, and when LAN is not hooked up, turn on wireless.

The way the old quickset works.

[GKDesigns]

That isn't the issue.

I want software to turn off the wireless, when they have LAN hooked up, and when LAN is not hooked up, turn on wireless.

The way the old quickset works.

I see... an auto wifi switch. Windows should make this a default property on a wireless connection... Disable when wired. Or Dell should make this an option in the BIOS... Disable WLAN if LAN. The user could use the switch, or set the WLAN to not connect automatically.

GK