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 .