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849142 2010-01-16 00:25:00 Is there some lovely person out there who can find me a picture of where to put a sim card directly into a Dell Inspiron mini.

The prepay vodafone vodem is not connecting and the powers to be that I have spoken to today say take the battery off and slot the sim card in the slot.

Well Ive looked and I cant see it ..... and I have my glasses on ..... have been cruising Dell site for and hour trying to find something but no joy

Many thanks

Hope you are having a better day than mine
Kaycee (14727)
849143 2010-01-16 00:29:00 What model mini is it? stormdragon (6013)
849144 2010-01-16 00:33:00 Mini 10 :) Kaycee (14727)
849145 2010-01-16 00:36:00 A quick google search does make mention of a sim card slot under the main battery of various dell laptops but it appears to be something for the USA market according to other posts.

apcmag.com ized_yet_superslim_12_inch_netbook.htm

Have a read of this article, may not be your specific model but it shows a sim card slot. About half way down the article.
PinoyKiw (9675)
849146 2010-01-16 00:42:00 humm .... thank you .... nope it doesnt have one ... back to the drawing board it is strange as the vodem will connect on my machine (toshiba) but not on the Mini ... keep saying that some other programme is using it Kaycee (14727)
849147 2010-01-16 00:42:00 This (support.dell.com) should be the instructions for disassembling the laptop.

This (support.dell.com) page related specifically to the sim.
stormdragon (6013)
849148 2010-01-16 00:57:00 oooh ... that looks way way past my expertise ... shucks .... if it was mine Id give it a go .... but this machine is new and not mine and it would be just my luck .... I would end up owning a white elephant :) Kaycee (14727)
849149 2010-01-16 00:58:00 that second link is the same as the first ? Kaycee (14727)
849150 2010-01-16 01:20:00 Was the machine bought from Vodafone, or from Dell? I don't think the ones bought directly from Dell have an inbuilt 3G modem as standard, so yours might not have that slot. somebody (208)
849151 2010-01-16 01:32:00 It was brought from Dell.

Back to the drawing board .... another question if I may

Ok the vodem work on my lappy .... so I know it ok
The Dell finds the vodem .... finds the network .... starts connecting and then comes up with

You wont believe this .... connected so I could give you the error and the bleep connected ..... Ive been been mucking for three days trying to get this bleep thing to work ........ grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Kaycee (14727)
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