Most recent driver for Dell 1510 WLAN card?

Hey all - does anyone know what the most recent driver for the Dell 1510 WLAN card is? Vista is reporting the driver date to be 2/28/08, which matches the latest driver on Dell's site. However, I've read that Dell isn't known to routinely update their drivers, and my research indicates that I could possibly use the Broadcom 943xx driver, which apparently had its latest release in November.

I'm curious because I'm looking to resolve a problem maintaining a connection via WPA2, and I suspect that an updated driver may do the trick. If the Dell Driver I'm using now is nearly 10 months old, there surely has to be something more current. Would I be able to use the Broadcom driver (v.5.10.38.26) listed at the link at the bottom of this post?

Thanks for your guidance.

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t14644.html

 

I'm running that driver on my Wifes D820 with the Dell 1500 WLAN card.
Works just fine.

You will need to just update the driver as it doesn't have a Client Utility.

 

Will this update need to be done through the Device Manager/Update Driver Tab, or is it a standard auto-extracting .exe?

And I assume that despite being a Broadcom driver, it's still recognized as a Dell card after the update?

 

The drivers we host at LV2go are 7zipped (self extracting)
Then you will need to use the Device Manager/Update Driver Tab to update them.
But the name does get renamed to it's Broadcom name (not Dell 15xx), this is not the case in all drivers where the Dell does stay.
In the end it doesn't matter what it's called as long as it works.

 

Thanks, wlan_man. Do you know the date of the most recent Broadcom driver? I assume it's more current than the July 2008 version listed on Dell's site.

 

Most recent version is v5.10.38.26 note sure of it's date.
Dell will often release driver much later then the were made.
Dell's July release might already be months old.

 

Why is Dell so slow? You'd think they would keep on top of this stuff.

 

Quite often, laptop manufacturers do not update drivers if there is no hardware/software issue. Driver teams are quite busy configuring drivers for upcoming hardware releases, so there really isn't time to waste on a working driver. If there are many Dell customers complaining about a wireless driver dropping connections, they will devote time to fixing the issue.

Have you contacted Dell about the issue?

 

Dell would be Broadcom's biggest customer by far.
So no reason why Dell can't get some action if there is an issue that needs addressing.
Dell on the other releasing a driver that at the time is alreeady 4-5 months old is not ideal either.
But Dell relies on ignorance of the end user, only a tiniest fraction of customers would even contemplate updating a driver in the first place.
It's all about acceptable losses.

Stick with Ralink WLAN, great little card that Gigabyte have.
Been flawless since I've had it, don't want to put my Atheros cards back in.

But saying that, my wifes Dell 1500 WLAN has not given any issues either and she's had it nearly 2 years now.