when run hitchhiker it tells me that no WLAN device is found, please turn on WLAN. i have an X5 ADV w\ 2003 & a CF SMC2642w. i also have the CF update from dell. any suggestions?

Probably a bug either with the SMC driver or Hitchiker. Email the Hitchhiker developer and give him as much as technical information about the problem as possible. He is the only one who can help you with this.