Recently swapped miniPCI WiFi card in my laptop....works excellent

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I recently bought a Dell 1450 miniPCI card (BCOM 4309) off Ebay for $10.95 USD. I swapped out my RealteK 8185L miniPCI and loaded the drivers (WinXP drivers) I DL'd from Dell. Had to manually install drivers (drivers couldn't automattically find new hardware) but after that I had WiFi working excellent on my Gateway laptop in WinXP. The Dell 1450 miniPCI card was a little to large to fit in my laptop WiFi compartment so I made sure it worked first then I did a little modification to the compartment. After the mod the card just fit with absolutely no other room to spare.

 

After getting the card working in WinXP in about 3 min. I tried followed the instructions for this card for OSX after doing a search on this site. Within a few more minutes I had an Airport card running in OSX. I guess I'll keep the Realtek just in case support actually becomes available but for now I finally have a portable Mac besides my main computer. If only someone can get the ATI X200m to support QE/CI now.

 

If anyone has probs getting WiFi working on their laptop I highly recommend the cheap alternative. You can't go wrong.

 

 

Gateway MX3701

Intel Core duo T2050 (1.6 Ghz) Both cores working

1 Gig DDR2 533 ram

ATI X200m video (grrr)

SigmaTel 9200 (not working...yet...something strange with mine)

Logitech V20 USB speakers (working)

Yukon 80038 Wan Ethernet (working)

Wireless Dell 1450 (BCOM 4309) (working)

 

 

cheers, Blog