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Mount Airy, MD | reply to rahlquist
Re: Dell TrueMobile 1150 Firmware v8.72 Updater Yeah thanks DrTCP! I appreciate the time you took to IM me about fixing it up for my other rebranded cards - and now I have been able to make it work on my IBM Wireless card and my Toshiba mini-pci card!!
Thanks again DrTCP! |
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 DrTCPYours trulyPremium,ExMod 1999-04
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Round Rock, TX | said by jkonrad:
Thanks again DrTCP!
Actually thanks to you for letting me know that independent versions for MINI-PCI and PCMCIA would work. |
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| What hex editor are you using? |
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jkonradKonmanPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | I tried a few, but ended up liking Ultra Edit - »www.ultraedit.com - I am on the trial version right now. |
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Ohh do you stll have the instructions for doing other cards, I have a couple rebranded cards that could use it.
Thanks!
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DrTCPYours trulyPremium,ExMod 1999-04
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Round Rock, TX | Simple, look for PnP ID of Dell (say mini-PCI is DELL-TRUEMOBILE_1150_SERIES_PC_CARD-C043) in the firmware file and replace it with PnP ID of the card you want to update followed by a NULL byte. In Original updater several PnP ID are seperated by 3 NULL bytes but doing so was not very successful for DELL. |
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| Cool Dr, I'll try it tonight on my Alvarion cards!! |
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| When you get it to work on the alvarion, please post what you did, I can't get it to work on that one, I was successful on a dell, but not the alvarion. |
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so i just ordered an Inspiron with mobile 1150 internal mini pci...
what do i do exactly to update the firmware and drivers?
thanks! |
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| From the opening post in this thread, the one upon which the catchy title is based:
"A year ago someone at Dell forums found a way to hack the firmware update package for version 8.10 to work on Dell. Recently Dell has changed the forum names but I found the link again.
[Update (2/19/03): The 8.10 firmware updater referenced below does not work with PCMCIA card. There is a fixed 8.10 version later in the thread]
»delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/boa..[?]
In this thread there is a link to patched firmware updater to upgrade to version 8.10.
»www.loodi.com/TrueMobile1150_v810.zip[?]"
I'm going out on a limb here, but I'd say that clicking on those links might be a good jumping off point. Worth a shot maybe.
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said by DrTCP:
Simple, look for PnP ID of Dell (say mini-PCI is DELL-TRUEMOBILE_1150_SERIES_PC_CARD-C043) in the firmware file and replace it with PnP ID of the card you want to update followed by a NULL byte. In Original updater several PnP ID are seperated by 3 NULL bytes but doing so was not very successful for DELL.
Dr, you're the best, I didn't do this sooner because I have been too busy. It took some tinkering but it worked. Using a hex editor I pasted in the pnp id as you said replacing the Dell's string in the pcmcia file. This left 2 chars of the original Dell string standing which I replaced with Null chars, it worked perfectly after this.
Thanks for your help and research!!
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Round Rock, TX | said by rahlquist:
Dr, you're the best, I didn't do this sooner because I have been too busy. It took some tinkering but it worked. Using a hex editor I pasted in the pnp id as you said replacing the Dell's string in the pcmcia file. This left 2 chars of the original Dell string standing which I replaced with Null chars, it worked perfectly after this.
Well, I had already updated the file link in the first thread with working one so you didn't need to do it on your own but it must be learning experience for you... |
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Well, I had already updated the file link in the first thread with working one so you didn't need to do it on your own but it must be learning experience for you...
Lol maybe I didnt make it clear I was updating Alvarion PCMCIA cards, they didnt work untill I edited the exe.
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DrTCPYours trulyPremium,ExMod 1999-04
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Round Rock, TX | said by rahlquist:
Lol maybe I didnt make it clear I was updating Alvarion PCMCIA cards, they didnt work untill I edited the exe.
Oh OK then.  |
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thanks for the great info.
[text was edited by author 2003-03-23 18:39:00] |
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We tried that here in our lab with a few Inspiron 8200's and it went well till we noticed mtu size mismatches were causing the DSL speedstream some angst with some foreign sites. In the end we went back to the latest posted Dell drivers and all was well again in XP Pro.
It works but some funny stuff is going on.... |
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