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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…
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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…
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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, I’d highly recommend joining. They’re a great community and the wiki and…