I think that the array of dell cards that work out-of-the-box should be stickied. I'm up for making this list if no one else is willing.

I know for a fact 1390 and 1490 work (both broadcom chipsets)

also the 1505 (Draft N) works

Hi I have a XPS M1330 with a Core 2 Duo T5450 processor and 2gb ram, I just bought a dell truemobile 1390 off ebay so I could have wireless working on leopard 10.5.2, I have it dual booted with vista, while on vista the card works fine but its not detected in osx, is there something I have to do first before it will work or something?

Same problem with my amilo pi 1536.
I bought dell 1390 to replace intel 3945 but nothing in osx

so should I return my 1390? or can I get it to work somehow?

802.11a/b/g:

• Dell DW1470 (miniPCI)
• Dell DW1490 (miniPCIe)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11b/g (miniPCI)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11b/g (miniPCIe)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11a/b/g (miniPCI)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11a/b/g (miniPCIe)

802.11a/b/g/n:

• Dell 1505 (miniPCIe) <-- the perfect AirPort rebrand candidate
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11b/g/n (miniPCI)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11b/g/n (miniPCIe)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11a/b/g/n (miniPCI)
• any Broadcom based card supporting 802.11a/b/g/n (miniPCIe)

@buildsmart
I dont understabd your post.
I was searching alot before buying my mpcie 1390 (it is compatible with mac osx)

I don't know what your talking about guys....
I swap the original 3945abg to my laptop for the DW1390 and was reconized as Airport whitout any aditional kext....

here's a thought:

to see if the card itself work, just install the regular dell 1390 driver on WINDOWS. if it works then that means the card itself is fine, and i will assume the following: you didn't replace your wireless card, you might've just added that one in.
I COULD BE WRONG.

In which case, some people said on other threads that reinstalling mac does the trick.

first of all I know exactly the meaning of word "replace"
If i am right i took off the old 3945 and at the same place i put the 1390.
How is it possible to add a wifi card in a laptop when ther is also another one.
Secondly under vista and ubuntu 8.04 the Dell 1390 is working perfectly,only Mac is the problem.
Anyway i will try for one more time to format my laptop and see if i can do anything (and i have otherwise perfectly working Osx 10.5.4)

Well I dunno about you, but for my dell xps 1530 there are two slots. so that's how you add two.

anyway i had the same problem, bought a card on ebay and bam, didnt work on vista or mac.

turns out it was the wrong revision - A02. my seller was kinda enough to let me go through and test all his cards, and luckily the first one i picked, A03, worked for both Vista and Mac off the bat.

I dunno about your revision, so check that.

Using everest under vista i get revision 01 for the broadcom device.Any suggestion or where can i see in right way revision (eg.a01)?

oh, its right on the card. on the sticker.

SO it'll work if I reinstall iatkos then? I'll give it a shot thanks

Some people said reinstalling would work, but i think differently. I think its more of a hardware problem if it doesnt work for you, as you've got the wrong revision. for me, rev a02 didnt work, but rev a03 worked - without reinstalling leopard

For me its revision a01 as i saw at the sticker

Dell TrueMobile 1300 PCMCIA works out of the box . Airport software sees as Airport Extreme card works great. This is an older card but tons were sold and should be available on Ebay etc.
The Dell 1350 PCMCIA card I'm told also works fine .

I have a Dell TrueMobile 1390 card. I have tried it in two laptops. In my Acer Aspire 5570Z, it works fine in Windows and OSX (after chun-nan's IOPCIFamily patch).

In my Dell Inspiron 640m, the card works in Windows; in OSX the card is detected as "Third Party Airport". I can list and connect to my WPA network, but it gets stuck with "Self-assigned IP". anyone else have problems with DHCP on the 1390?

Hello,

I managed to install iDeneb 10.5.8 on my laptop ( Acer Aspire 5633 WLMI) and I replaced my wireless card with a Dell truemobile 1390. OS X recognized it as Airport, and works perfect on "unlocked" networks, however, when I try to connect using WPA authentication i get a "connection refused" message right after clicking the "connect button". Any solutions on this problem? Thanks in advance!

Sounds like you might have replaced the IO80211Family.kext with an older version. Try restoring it to the original 10.5.8 kext and see if it works.

thanks for your fast reply! I finally replaced the IO80211Family.kext with the one from the 10.5.7 combo update (extracted it using pacifist) and worked like a charm!

just bought a dell dw1390 from ebay. seller said full compatible with os x. will update this when it arrives and i install it to let everyone know if it works.

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Computer
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Dell Inspiron 1520 (2007 model)
Dual boot: Fedora 12, Mac OS X 10.6 (SnowOSX)
Genuine Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2.0ghz, recognized as 1.8ghz)
Western Digital 500GB 5400RPM harddrive
Nvidia Geforce 8600m GT 256mb (works with nvinject 0.2.1)
Sigmatel HD Audio STAC92XX (works with VoodooHDA.kext and proper id's)
4GB pc2-5300 DDR2 Kingston Memory
Intel 82XXX Ethernet Controller (works with broadcom 440x kexts and proper id's)
Intel 3945 a/b/g wireless (not working, purchased dell 1390 to replace it)
Logitech V220 Wireless Mouse (works with usb kext from SnowOSX install, PnP)

If anyone wants help with setting up anything That I have, let me know and i will do my best to help!!