[cookiemonster]

I know I have at times been quite confused as to which drivers were for what hardware, and there has especially been some confusion over the different drivers for the Battery Meter/Wireless Select Switch thing. I therefore decided to compile a list of the various drivers together with their filename. All links are to Dell's ftp site, for direct file download. BTW, these are listed as Windows XP drivers on their site to download drivers. Ubuntu drivers are built-in to the kernel (so, you don't need these).

Drivers for the Mini 9, taken from Dell's website:

• R192569.EXE - Battery Meter
• R192570.EXE - Wireless Select Switch
• R192572.EXE - Intel Graphics Media 945GSE/GM965
• R192574.EXE - Intel (R) Mobile Chipset
• R192597.EXE - Synaptics TouchPad
• R193480.EXE - Creative Labs Integrated Camera
• R197390.EXE - Broadcom Arcadyne Wireless LAN
• R197392.EXE - Realtek ALC268 HD Audio
• R197393.EXE - Realtek LAN RTL8102EL
• R197396.EXE - Broadcom Bluetooth
• R200081.EXE - JMicron JMB385 Card Reader
• Dell_Wireless-5530-HSPA-Mini_A01_R212325.exe - Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Mini-Card (Firmware)
  
• DELL_WIRELESS-5530-HSPA-MINI_A06_R220877.exe - Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Mini-Card (Driver)
• DELL_WIRELESS-5530-HSPA-MINI_A00_R198215.exe - Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Mini-Card (Application)
• DELL_MULTI-DEVICE_A05_R254208.exe - Dell Mobile Broadband Manager, Wireless 5540 HSPA Mini Card Application, Windows 7, A05
• DELL_WIRELESS-5540-HSPA-MINI_A08_R254204.exe - Dell Wireless 5540 HSPA Mini Card Driver, Windows 7, v.6.1.18.4, A08
• DELL_WIRELESS-5730-SPRINT-MO_A02_R240425.exe - Dell Wireless 5730 Sprint Mobile Broadband (EVDO Rev-A) MiniCard, Driver, Windows 7 32-bit, English, Multi System, v.2.10.52, A02

Recommended order to install these drivers

Finally, you can sign up on Dell's website to be notified by email whenever a new driver is released (including new BIOS releases). You will need to be signed in to "Create a New Subscription." The rest should be pretty straightforward.

I hope people find this post useful! Maybe it can be made a sticky... hint, hint

Edit: Due to popular demand, I will list drivers from sources other than Dell which have been reported to work with the Mini.

• Synaptics Touchpad driver - discussion
• Hacked Bluetooth driver - discussion
• (added 2010.06.14) Broadcom WIDCOMM Bluetooth Vista/7 Driver v.6.3.0.4010
• (updated 2010.01.20) Broadcom Wireless Driver for Windows XP, version 5.60.18.35
• (updated 2010.08.06) Broadcom Wireless Driver for Windows 7, version 5.60.350.11
• (added 2010.06.14) Broadcom Wireless BCM43xx Driver v.5.100.9.141 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
• (updated 2010.08.03) Realtek High Definition Audio (R2.51) driver (2000/XP ver. 5.10.0.6167; Vista/Win7 ver 6.0.1.6167), (too slow? See here. Alternate install method.)
• (updated 2010.08.27) JMicron JMB385 Card Reader, ver. 1.0.48.1
• (updated 2010.07.23) Realtek LAN driver (XP ver 5.764; Vista ver 6.241; Win 7 ver 7.023) (alternative link)
  
• (added 2009.3.29) Hitachi microdrive filter driver - makes your removable devices appear as fixed, useful if you've done the internal USB hack
• (added 2010.06.11) Webcam Driver, version 6.5853.77.14 - (Follow these instructions)
  

[Striker317]

Originally Posted by robert

found some Broadcom bluetooth drivers here :

Broadcom BTW 5.5.0.7400 & BTW 6.2.0.9200 available

installed on mini9 no problem.

xp version is 5.5.0.7400, vista is 6.2.0.9200

After installing the 6.2.0.9200 on Windows 7, tethering speeds with my blackberry dropped like a rock (to almost an unusable state). only resolution was to remove it and use either the stock driver or R197396.EXE. YMMV

[DongTran]

Originally Posted by whadzinaname

I nLited XP Pro and everything installs fine. I am not able to install the Integrated Webcam drivers though. I initially used setup.exe to install and it just failed with a "there is an error installing" error message. I rebooted and I don't see the "Integrated Camera" anywhere in the device manager. When I try to use it in Yahoo messenger, it says no Webcam found.

I then went to "Add Hardware" and I see the Integrated Camera there with the Yellow question mark(and a !). When I try to install it from there and choose the driver location, I get "The required section was not found in the inf" error message. What gives? What am I missing here? I followed all instructions from this thread. The webcam worked fine with Ubuntu.

TIA.

Download the creative webcam driver (currently R202606), use a program like 7zip to extract the contents of that EXE to a dir. Inside the dir is CTDriver subdir which contains the INF necessary to install, etc. You can also copy the contents of the CTDriver folder to windows\inf and windows\i386 (I usually copy it to both, depending on where your sources point to), and let windows run the PNP again or you could just nLite the folder...

[mikenlapaz]

I read the thread title. Are these drivers applicable to a10v or is there a comparable assist thread for the 10v?


Got this 10 v on the way.
Thks. Mike


Processor Intel Atom N270 Mem 1 GB HDD 160 GB
Op Sys XP Home Display 10.1" WS (1024x576)
Vid Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
Web Cam 1.3M Pixel Bat 6 Cell, 56WHr Lith Ion
Network Interface Card Dell Wireless 1510 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card

[cookiemonster]

Here's Dell's page to download drivers for the Mini 10v.

I am not aware of another thread with a compiled list of drivers that are not from Dell (like the 2nd list in my OP).

[Wek]

I'm not sure if I'm not doing something or I'm doing somethig wrong but I cannot get wireless connection when I install the "Broadcom Wireless Driver, version 5.10.105.0". I can install the driver and everything but nothing happens, can't even see the icon on the system tray. At the moment I'm using the Dell driver but I dont like the Broadcom software that comes with it. Is there anything I have to do to get the connection started when using the "Broadcom Wireless Driver, version 5.10.105.0" driver?

Thanks

[cookiemonster]

That's the version I'm running, and I have no problem.

Have you verified in Device Manager that you've got the 5.10.105.0 driver installed? Are you able to see any wireless networks, but not connect to them, or you can't even see them?

[Wek]

I can see the driver installed in "Un/Install Programs" but not in Device Manager. I have the ? for Network controller.

[jetkins]

Just wanted to say thanks for this thread. While rummaging at my favorite used computer parts store today, I found a Dell 1505 PCIe desktop adapter with an external antenna. Closer inspection revealed that it was a 1505 mini-PCIe card in a desktop adapter, so I snapped it up for $19.95.

When I got home, I swapped the 1505 mini card into my Mini 9, and OS X immediately started using it and allowed me to connect to my 802.11a access point. So far, so good.

I then installed my OEM Broadcom card in the PCIe adapter and installed it in my mother-in-law's PC, which has been using a (somewhat flakey) wireless bridge to gain access to our home network from the guest house out back. However, her PC is running Vista and it failed to find any suitable drivers for the card.

After tearing my hair out for about an hour trying to find drivers at various marginally-trustworthy sites on the interwebz, I suddenly thought that since that card originally came from my Mini 9, the perfect place to look for a driver would be here on MyDellMini.com! Dunno why I didn't think of it sooner.

Anyway, to bring an end to this rambling tale, I immediately found this thread and downloaded the R197390.EXE - Broadcom Arcadyne Wireless LAN package, and while the setup program refused to run because it claimed it couldn't find any compatible hardware, I was able to point Vista's Found New Hardware wizard at the directory it had created, and it found and installed the drivers perfectly.

So I wound up with two worthwhile upgrades for under twenty bucks - a good afternoon's result thanks to you guys.

[cookiemonster]

jetkins: Glad to hear it!

Wek: What OS are you running?
Edit: If you're using Vista or Windows 7, here's the Vista version of the 5.10.91.8 driver. I couldn't find the Vista version of the 5.10.105.0 driver.

[Wek]

Originally Posted by cookiemonster

Wek: What OS are you running?
Edit: If you're using Vista or Windows 7, here's the Vista version of the 5.10.91.8 driver. I couldn't find the Vista version of the 5.10.105.0 driver.

I'm actually running XP SP2. Dont have the HD capacity for neither Vista nor Win7. I don't mind using the Dell's driver at all but I just wanted to know why I wasn't able to get the other driver working since the first time I installed XP on it it did work. Anyway, thanks for all your help CM.