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Update: I called Dell to report the issue.  They said engineering wouldn’t accept the report until I provided logs on 511 and then downgraded to 412 and tried that as well.

I said sorry, but I’m not Dell’s personal QA. I understand their reasons for having their process that requires logs, but my report was basically a courtesy and an FYI, not to solve a problem impacting our production. My company won’t pay me to work in our lab testing firmware we don’t actually need to run the business.  Since we are fine on the old firmware, I have no incentive to do their testing.

I would encourage anyone else having this problem to call in and report it. They indicated no other customers have said anything about this issue – not surprising since the firmware is relatively new. So maybe a large number of complaints would be enough motivation to get engineering to investigate, sans logs.

Quick point of clarification:

On 511, the WLAN setting not only doesn’t survive a reboot, it doesn’t even survive closing out of the network config screen.  After selecting the WLAN radio button and clicking OK, when you immediately re-open network setup, ENET will be selected again.

Also, no WiFi problems on any of our terminals since downgrading the firmware yesterday.