G Mobile Broadband Laptops. Offers subject to change. Coupon may not be combined with other offers, discounts or coupons. Taxes, shipping, handling and. Mar 19, 2014 I have dell laptop latitude e 4300 with sim card slot. Besides the SIM card slot you also need the Mobile Broadband mini-card installed. Dell Wireless 5720. How can the answer be improved? Apr 04, 2009 I have bought a on Sony Vaio with the Gobi g card intergrated in it. The card is assigned to Verizon with Verizon software installed I am not a. Hi to everyone. Long story short, I took a WWAN card from a dead DELL D630 laptop and put it in my DELL D620. Antenna cables are connected, device manager shows a 3G. I've recently installed a Dell 5530 WWAN card for 3G in my Dell D430 notebook. The card has GPS, but I cannot for the life of me get it to respond. Finding the drivers to get the GPS recognised was a mission in itself, but I have now installed all the drivers for it and Windows assigned it its own COM port, separate from the main COM port for the WWAN side of things. So it's assigned to COM7, which I'm supposed to be able to connect to and send AT commands, and it's supposed to spit out '*EMRDY: 1' when I connect to the COM port however once connected, nothing happens at all, and it doesn't answer any AT commands I send it. None of Dell's software to Enable the GPS seems to work either, just seems to hang. Has anyone else had similar issues? There was a registry hack I needed to do to get the GPS working. The Dell Mobile Broadband Utility has a GPS button to turn it on, and it works for me. I had been through all of that, and when clicking the 'GPS on' button, it would become greyed out until I rebooted. I figured out the issue late last night. As soon as I put a SIM card in there the GPS happily turned on and worked properly – and if I take the SIM back out, the GPS will go back to not working. It's not a major problem really, I'll be buying a dedicated SIM to stay in the laptop permanently either tonight or tomorrow. Having said that, I do find it a little odd that a SIM is required even if I'm only wanting to use the GPS functionality. ![]() ![]() I just got a new (old) WWAN 5520 3G/UMTS card/modem for my Dell D830. Eventually, the card did not work out of the box without a hack. In the following I will show what you need to do, if you want to get the card running in your Dell D830 (or maybe also any other older Dell Latitude or XPS machines). First you need the card of course. Your Dell Latitude D830 (and many other older Dells) already has an empty slot for this card. ![]() Opening the cover (i.e. Removing the keyboard) will reveal the slot for the card on the lower left of the case. The antenna cables should be already there, probably with a small protection on their end. It took me a few moments to realize which cable to plug where. One is marked white and the other is marked black, and the connectors show a large white and black arrow (actually, this was so obvious that I haven’t realized this right away). Plug it in, close the lid and turn the computer on again (hopefully you did shut it down before). After starting Windows (if you read this blog you know we area talking about Windows 7 64-bit), Windows Update will take over – or at least it will try and glorious fail in finding any drivers. Never give up, never surrender as we are talking about Dell here. And as I learned recently about the, there might be a driver for everything else as well. Once again we go for a 64-bit driver for Windows Vista. In this case the Wireless Mobile Broadband MiniCard driver for Windows Vista 64-bit will do the job. At Dell’s download site for, there is a whole bunch of carrier specific drivers (Vodafone, Cingular, Telus and other carriers, I have never heard about before). It is not related to any carrier, so ignore anything with a carrier name in it. Just to be sure, the driver we are looking for here is R159896.EXE. The SIM card lives directly in the battery slot as you can see at Dell’s. Make sure the cut off corner goes the correct orientation and if you are using a contact (pay monthly) card, make sure the card is protected by a PIN. The battery slot is not secured, and if you don’t watch your laptop all the time well, you never know. Maybe worth to know, the SIM in your Dell does not support hot-swapping, i.e. The iPhone 3GS, you have to shut down your laptop before you insert the card. Once built in, installed and inserted every bits and pieces, the Dell Mobile Broadband Card Utility will let you know: No Service SIM Not Found – Check Orientation No, don’t turn off the laptop again, the orientation probably is right. There is a (not so obvious) solution to that. Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to ComputerHK_LOKAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeNovatel WirelessNextGenCommon and change GPSHWStatus to 1. This means, the GPS chip on the card gets activated. For whatever reason, the chip is deactivated by the Dell drivers by default. However, if you activate the GPS chip, the entire card will be activated. It might be interesting to dig a bit deeper here, but for now it’s enough to know that it works. Either reboot, or just quite and start the Broadband Card Utility again. By applying this GPHWStatus hack, not only the 3G card/model will now work, also the GPS hardware will be enabled and should available from the tool.
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