Dell Inspiron 1545 upgrades on the cheap

Dell Inspiron 1545 upgrades on the cheap

There are 3 areas I’d like to cover as upgrades that either improve performance or just ones that I’ve done myself that I’d like to share. There are a lot of question marks about which CPUs or Wireless adapters are compatible. I will tell you what I know for fact will work and what the results of those upgrades were.

Dell Inspiron 1545 Wireless Adapter Upgrade (802.11agn 5 GHz WiFi + Bluetooth 4.0)

Dell Inspiron 1545 Wireless Adapter Upgrade (802.11agn 5 GHz WiFi + Bluetooth 4.0)

After recently moving to a new house, I decided to take some time to carefully plan out my home network. One of the sore points of living in a city is that you have neighbors; lots of neighbors with WiFi APs polluting the 2.4 GHz band. I wanted to avoid this at all costs and decided to enable the 5 GHz radio on my Netgear WNDR3700 v4 running DD-WRT build 22118 (highly capable hardware and firmware combination for a home AP).

Intel 8254x Ethernet Controller Example Driver

Intel 8254x Ethernet Controller Example Driver

Writing a custom or hobby driver for the Intel 8254x series Ethernet controllers?  I’ve been down that road before and luckily there are quite a few resources to help you along your journey.  For starters, if you’re not already a member of OSDev.org,...

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