[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
• (updated 2010.01.20) Broadcom Wireless Driver for Windows XP, version 5.60.18.35
• (updated 2010.03.02) Broadcom Wireless Driver for Windows 7, version 5.60.48.31
• (updated 2010.03.18) Realtek High Definition Audio (R2.44) driver (2000/XP ver. 5.10.0.6066; Vista/Win7 ver 6.0.1.6066), (too slow? See here. Alternate install method.)
• (updated 2010.03.18) JMicron JMB385 Card Reader, ver. 1.0.40.1
• (updated 2010.03.11) Realtek LAN driver (XP ver 5.754; Vista ver 6.235; Win 7 ver 7.017)
• (added 2009.3.29) Hitachi microdrive filter driver - makes your removable devices appear as fixed, useful if you've done the internal USB hack

[mds1256]

regarding the unknown device mine has the same device missing, i installed the battery monitor and it still says unknown device, and tries to look for driver. can any one help?

i am running

Win xp Pro SP3

Installed order:

Chipset
Video
Sound
Bluetooth
SD Card reader drivers
Realtek lan
WLan
Batery monitor

?

[cookiemonster]

By "same device missing," do you mean the ACPI\CPL0002\2&DABA3FF&0 ? If yes, do you have the following files installed?

• c:\windows\system32\drivers\EMSC.sys
• c:\windows\system32\WdfCoinstaller01005.dll

[mds1256]

yes its the same device ACPI........ and yes i have them files in them folders?

[mds1256]

i have sorted it, re-formatted XP and install all drivers from supplied dell cd rather than from dell website and its worked!

[somms]

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/dow ... Down=false

Latest RealTek High Definition Audio Codecs 2.18 driver...

[SlvrScoobie]

That link was "broken" (the next placed you into an infinite loop...)
Use this link for the 2.18 Realtek drivers
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/Exp ... =24&Conn=3

[somms]

Originally Posted by SlvrScoobie

That link was "broken" (the next placed you into an infinite loop...)
Use this link for the 2.18 Realtek drivers
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/Exp ... =24&Conn=3

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4603&start=30#p40355

Gotta love this new redirectingat.com! :evil:
Anyways, thanks for reposting a workin' link!

[cookiemonster]

Anybody actually install it? What are your results/observations?

[somms]

Originally Posted by cookiemonster

Anybody actually install it? What are your results/observations?

Newer driver...works fine!

[somms]

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/Te ... us&mode=5&

Version: 7.20  (20 Feb 2009) 
      Fixes 
  - Fixes an issue where the wireless LED takes more than 20 seconds to change when resuming from Suspend or Hibernate mode if unassociated to an access point.  
 
      Enhancements 
  - Provides Broadcom driver version 5.10.79.5.