Dell Bluetooth, Minicard 370–current updated drivers.

I have a DELL latitude 6500, with this I have a Bluetooth mouse (Microsoft BT 5000). It worked for a month or two and then disconnected from the laptop and then would not re-pair with the laptop.

On review it seemed that by installing the BT drivers from the DELL website for the laptop I could fix this issue.

However on review of the drivers on the DELL site, they are quite old. To cut a long story short finding newer drivers was not easy, however in the end I came across this guy who had done the same thing.

The DELL mini-card is in fact a Broadcom card. He had found drivers on a couple of sites, in the end I grabbed a x64 windows 7 driver from the gateway site.

This allowed me to re-pair my mouse and laptop, and has also given me updated drivers for the Bluetooth stack on my DELL latitude laptop.

Dell Bluetooth, Minicard 370–current updated drivers.

A DRAC 5 error has occurred–Media Active-X plugin install

Recently had this issue after getting DRAC 5 to work in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

Whenever going to the media page I would get offered the install, but the error would be on the page. Clicking install would drop me back to the login page for the DRAC.

I have found 2 fixes.

1. Add the IP address of the DRAC server as a site into the local intranet zone in the security tab in Internet Options.

2. For the internet zone, in security tab in internet options, select custom level and in the ActiveX controls and plug-ins Enable Automatic Prompting for ActiveX Controls.

A DRAC 5 error has occurred–Media Active-X plugin install

Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) and IE: “The XML page cannot be displayed”

I recently had issue connecting to my DRAC 5 controllers from Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

The problem manifested itself as the above error message, and in some cases only the IP address and Port were displayed on the web page.

After searching the internet it appears that various people have had this issue since IE7.

The fix was pretty simple, but I must warn you it means resetting IE back to its default settings, so I have no idea what impact this will have if you have customised the IE config.

In IE9 internet options goto the advanced tab and press reset in the “Reset Internet Explorer Settings” section.

This stage was not necessary but I thought I would just try and take it back to a clea state.

I also cleared out the temporary internet files and objects. In addition I deleted all history, cookies etc….

Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) and IE: “The XML page cannot be displayed”

Config Dell Remote Access (DRAC) via Windows CMD

I recently discovered that you can configure the DRAC from within windows. If you have installed the DELL server administrator.

You can configure from the command line, using the racadm exe.

racadm setniccfg –s <drac ip> <drac subnet mask> <gateway>

racadm setniccfg -s 192.168.x.x 255.255.255.0 192.168.x.x

I had to setup some servers that already had windows installed. Normally I configure the DRAC via the boot menu. As you can see you can do it without rebooting.

Not sure what other items you can configure but hopefully this will point some people in the right direction.

note: the racadm is in the following location (although I believe it is added to the system path so should run from anywhere).

C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\RAC<versionnumber)\

Config Dell Remote Access (DRAC) via Windows CMD

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant (IE, Java Problems/Issues)

I also posted over at the Dell forums http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19247089/19513996.aspx#19513996

I have just had this issue reoccur after someone updated the machine, I cannot confirm what caused the issues to reoccur as the user installed the java runtime engine and Internet Explorer 8 at the sametime.

However by using the solutions I detailed before I have managed to get IT assistant working in IE8 on windows 2008 server, running Java runtime 1.6.0_13. Below I summarise the issues and resolutions.
I have tried to summarise and clear up the problem and resolutions below.

There are 3 issues a

1. Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls error

This is caused by the java runtime engine, and occurs due to an update from 1.6._08+.

To get round this you just have to go the Java Control Panel(in the windows Control Panel) and the advanced tab. Expand the Java Plug-in entry and uncheck the “Enable the Next generation Java Plug-in option”.
See below.

2. Session timeout

This error appears to be something to do with TCPIP V6, I am afraid I cannot tell you why this is really occurring just that I know how to resolve in this instance. It must be noted that this resolution disables TCPIPV6 across the board in Windows 2008, so further down the line this could cause issues.

To disable TCPIP V6 in its entirety within Windows 2008 requires a registry key to be added and a reboot.

Add the following DWORD and set it to FFFFFFFF, and then reboot.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents

3. IT assistant Software Updates

This error is caused by a required java parameter in the Java runtime. Add the following parameter –Xmx256m to the Java Runtime Parameters in the Java control panel, Java tab under the java applet runtime settings.

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant (IE, Java Problems/Issues)