[WWAN] - Dell DW 5540 and 5550 driver for Windows

[Leon]

Hi,

While we offcourse run a OSX site here - one have to test Windows 8 also

In this case i am running Windows 8 on my Dell Latitude e6230 wich comes with a DW5550 mobile broadband card.

However, none of dells standard drivers wanted to install - classic

So, i extracted the drivers and did a manual install.

I have attached the drivers here... The installation is very basic, just go into Device manager, select the DW5550 card, update the driver and select the one from the package below.


Enjoy!

Files:
Drivers for DW5550.rar

Dell WWAN 5540.rar

 

 

Edit June 2015:

As reported by former member Kaiser, the drivers/installer available on the DELL site won't run on a E7440 running Win8.1, complaining that this card isn't supported on the machine, but using the above drivers, the card can be installed through Device Manager. The problem after that is the DELL Mobile Broadband Manager then says that "the mobile broadband device is not found" despite showing correctly in Device Manager.

 

To solve this, follow the instructions posted here:

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-Need-help-with-E6410?pid=68254#pid68254

and then reinstall the DELL drivers which will then pass the authorization check.