{"id":104,"date":"2009-11-04T22:06:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:06:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:06:43","slug":"dell5530windows764bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2009\/11\/dell5530windows764bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell 5530 HSPA Mobile Broadband Card with Windows 7 64bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have a Dell E4300, as wonderful as they are, you may have trouble sourcing a 64bit driver for Windows 7. It’s not listed on the drivers page on the Dell site (as of writing), nor is there even a 64bit Vista driver. <\/p>\n

So, to google! (which is probably why you’re here after all) and there are a few suggestions of installing the 32bit driver and Dell Connection Manager. I was fully expecting to have some 3rd party software to at least connect to the network, but I wasn’t sure about the 32bit driver, so I continued on my Googling. And it bought me to a page hidden deep in the URL structure of the Dell support website. This link here<\/a>! A 64bit 5530 HSPA Mobile Broadband driver for Windows 7. <\/p>\n

It’s just listed a driver, so I thought it was a good starting point, so let’s install it. What happened next was pleasantly surprised. Firstly, it found a GPS port. Does this card also contain a GPS receiver? I haven’t managed to make it work yet, but that would be super cool… The best surprised was what happened when I clicked on the Windows 7 “Connect to” system tray icon. <\/p>\n

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Windows 7 Connect To Dialog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What’s this?! I didn’t even have to tell it I’m on T-mobile, it just popped up and showed me the signal, and let me connect. No config, worked first time. From installing the driver to connected to WWAN in under 30 seconds. <\/p>\n

Perhaps I’m easily surprised, but I think this is one of my favourite features of Windows 7 so far; it’s so nice that it’s consistent, as well as the improved UI for the “connect to” menu in general. It makes the utility for managing mobile broadband I used in Vista look like a childs toy… <\/p>\n

That was easy \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have a Dell E4300, as wonderful as they are, you may have trouble sourcing a 64bit driver for Windows 7. It’s not listed on the drivers page on the Dell site (as of writing), nor is there even a 64bit Vista driver. So, to google! (which is probably why you’re here after all) … Continue reading Dell 5530 HSPA Mobile Broadband Card with Windows 7 64bit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-1G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}