Rajath,
There are two drivers, one for the BroadCom adapter and one for the Wireless. I've replaced both several times with drives from the Dell with no success. I even made sure that I was NOT downloading the XP drivers.
Turning off the firewall did not help. In fact, I stopped the Windows Firewall Service to be sure.
The Dell Wireless WLAN Card Uitilty reports everything is good on all Hardware Diagnostics, and passes all Connection Diagnostics up to Gateway IP Ping. Which we already know. We have a solid physical connection but no communications.
Also, If I give the adapter a static IP with all the appropriate additional info, then disable and enable the adapter, when I ping the IP of the machine I get "General Failure"
Resetting the WinSock and IP Stack did not help either.
And repairing the OS didn't help.
This is where we started. What else can we try or what other settings may be getting in the way??