Studio 1555 - Dell Wireless 5530 Mini HSPA Card

Hi, I got my Dell about 2 weeks ago with Vista pre installed. I then took the leap and installed Win 7 32bit. With the upgrade all is well except the mobile broadband device.

The Mobile broadband application that dell supplies for win 7 is very primitive with very unstable network searching and connecting. I was just wondering what the latest version software for win 7 is and where to look for an firmware upgrade if indeed there is one?

Please share your experiences with the 5530 mini card in win 7 and any other issues you might have picked up regard above.

Thx

 

I assume you are talking about Dell Control Point/ Connection Manager. You can use the utility for the card directly.

This should have the driver and the Dell utility: http://support.dell.com/support/dow...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=367343

Firmware is here, but has not been updated since 2/09: http://support.dell.com/support/dow...typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=299318

Alternatively, you can try the Ericsson utility as well, but the Dell utility is based off of it (should work): http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/mobilebroadband/download/wirelessmanager/ec400?cc=gb&lc=en

 

Just out of curiosity, doesn't the Dell 5530 card work out the box? Thought it would be plug & play, using windows connection manager..