[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)
  

[depiccus]

My sound driver was working until I downloaded and installed 10.5.8.
Is there a new driver available to fix this?
David Piccus

[Simplify]

I have installed before, but will do a clean install of nLited XP Home sp3 and have a few questions on the drivers

Q. Whats the difference between:

• R197390.EXE - Broadcom Arcadyne Wireless LAN
• R197393.EXE - Realtek LAN RTL8102EL
• 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)
  

Q. Why when I install all drivers do I have three of those computer icons on the bottom right hand corner of my screen - they all seem the same to me, the newbie!

Q. What is so exciting about the space swallowing Synaptics TouchPad - do I really need this, as touchpad seems fine without...

Q. I get this error when windows starts up:

RTHDCPL.EXE - Unable To Locate Compoment
This application has failed to start because HHCTRL.OCX was not found. Re-installing the aplication may fix the problem.

Even though I have tried installing driver from Dell site using code to locate exact model and also from Realtek website. Solvable?
Thanks

[cookiemonster]

Originally Posted by Simplify

I have installed before, but will do a clean install of nLited XP Home sp3 and have a few questions on the drivers

Q. Whats the difference between:

• R197390.EXE - Broadcom Arcadyne Wireless LAN
• R197393.EXE - Realtek LAN RTL8102EL
• 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)
  

The first one is "Wireless LAN", meaning WiFi. The second one is simply "LAN", meaning the wired network adapter, i.e., the socket on the right side that looks like a phone jack. The circuitry for these devices are in completely different places, and they're made by different companies, which is why they each have their own driver.

The last 3 which say "HSPA" are for the WWAN card. Most people who bought the Mini 9 did not pay the extra $150 (or whatever) to get the WWAN card. The WWAN card allows you to put a cellphone SIM card in your laptop, so you can get internet access on your Mini 9 through your providers cellular network (e.g., AT&T, Vodaphone, etc.). If you do not have the WWAN card in your computer, you do not need to install those last 3 programs.

Q. Why when I install all drivers do I have three of those computer icons on the bottom right hand corner of my screen - they all seem the same to me, the newbie!

Those each represent a network adapter. One is for the wired "LAN" adapter, one for the WiFi, & the 3rd one might be a Bluetooth network adapter or something else. Many people will never use anything but WiFi, & don't care about the other network capabilities of the computer. You can remove these from view (or anythng else in the System Tray you don't want to see) by Right-clicking on the Start button -> Properties -> Taskbar tab -> Customize -> select "Always hide" for the entries you want to be hidden.

Q. What is so exciting about the space swallowing Synaptics TouchPad - do I really need this, as touchpad seems fine without...

Since Synaptics makes the touchpad, they make their own driver for it. It's supposed to have more "features." If the touchpad works to you satisfaction without their driver, feel free to do so. Many people do that.

Q. I get this error when windows starts up:

RTHDCPL.EXE - Unable To Locate Compoment
This application has failed to start because HHCTRL.OCX was not found. Re-installing the aplication may fix the problem.

Even though I have tried installing driver from Dell site using code to locate exact model and also from Realtek website. Solvable?
Thanks

On my computer, HHCTRL.OCX is present in C:\WINDOWS\system32

[Simplify]

cookiemonster, nice one! Clears up all my particular issues with drivers in one post - thanks a lot!

The last problem with the HHCTRL.OCX, which I have been unable to locate, is probably caused by my (own) nLited version of XP which I also trying to solve in my thread here (feel free to input ur knowledge here, by all means!). No major issues as of yet, but hopefully when I reinstall all will be ok.

Thanks again!

[majhaar]

Q3
no the only benifit is that you ca n disable tap to click, which stops you knocking the pad wilst typing and moving the mouser pointer

Q4
unsure why you are getting this error, if its not too much hassle (and i should know i re-nlited my mini 14 timees till i was happy with it), redo you nlite build and slip in these slimmed down drivers
slim drivers

[Simplify]

Originally Posted by majhaar

Q3
no the only benifit is that you ca n disable tap to click, which stops you knocking the pad wilst typing and moving the mouser pointer

That is actually quite annoying - if I dont get used to the keyboard, i might install for that reason alone.

Q4
unsure why you are getting this error, if its not too much hassle (and i should know i re-nlited my mini 14 timees till i was happy with it), redo you nlite build and slip in these slimmed down drivers
slim drivers

Thats the plan! Not 14 times though, i cant do that! Take a look at my other thread. The slim drivers is a good start, thanks!

[Chris19]

i just reformatted my mini 9 and installed everything back however my wifi is not working.. im showing a error message 871122, i tried microsoft.com and support.dell.com.. and its still doing the same thing..i followed and did everything, im lost and dont know what to do.. please help me.. thanks!

[cookiemonster]

First, what operating system did you install? Windows? Ubuntu? Other?
Second, where/when are you seeing this error message?

[robert]

new generic broadcom xp drivers dated 17/10 : v5.5.0.7800

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vista /win7: 01/09: v6.2.0.9700

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[cookiemonster]

Is this the WLAN driver? Can anyone report that it works? And what's the difference between this and the one on HP's site (for XP, anyway)?