Hi Klaus,

Thank you for the help.
Unfortunately, the new procedure failed as well.
I followed your instructions to the letter, but on the final (and critical) step,
iwconfig
there's still no output with a wireless device.

The procedure you recommended does create a new "wl.ko" module, size 2623850
but on loading, wl does not create a device /dev/wlan0 (or some such, like
/dev/eth1) as expected so iwconfig output remains empty of any wireless device.

Any other ideas? As I said, on 6.2.1 disc, "wl" works so smoothly (as it should)
in creating a wireless device.
With an unfortunate name to be sure, eth1, but what's in a name these days!

PS The Dell Alienware M17x product (and its wireless module) came out on the
market two years ago. I cannot imagine the driver for it bacame obsolete (and bad)
(in Linux, things work the other way around normally, two years might be
too _new_ for a device to have a driver for it yet! )