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There were a few different "fixes" in that 3 page HP thread - but the problem seemed to come back for some people.
I saw your edit with the link to the emachine. I cannot get that file to download so that I can check which files/drivers are newer: those or the ones in the Dell site below. I see that the Gateway site has April 2011 0 those might be newer.
Based on this Broadcom BCM94313HMG2L info
& adding Dell to the search term
...lead me to this ebay listing.
That ebay listing seems to say that Dell calls this card a DW 1501.
The Dell drivers can be found here. Running that 80MB file shows this:
I changed (shortened) the path where the files where extracted to.
I would suggest that you NOT install the junk in that 80MB file - you only need the drivers that are in the DRIVER_US folder. After you click on the button named "Extract" (shown in the screen shot above) you can just close that window. I do not think that you will like what you get if you click on the button named "Install". I could be wrong, but I think that the "Install" gives you Dells program to control the wireless card. You are probably better off letting W7 manage the card.
You can use the Device Manager to try and update the drivers:
Here is the way that I would start - I'm sure that others would do it differently:
Right click on Computer on the start menu
Select Device Manager,
expand Network Adapters
right click on the device in question
select Update Driver Software
You can click next in the screen above - that is as far as the process would let me go since I don't have that hardware.