I have a 2010 model Dell Studio 1458 laptop which has a Dell DW1520 Half mini PCIe wifi card which is a Broadcom BCM943224HMS chipset. Additionally, it has a separate Bluetooth card connected inside the display bezel.I'm planning to upgrade the wifi card to support 802.11ac 5Ghz wifi connections, but i could only find Wifi+BT Combo cards with this interface/card size.Is it ok to replace a Wifi card with a Combo card when there is already a seperate BT card present. Kindly suggest me a good(mostly compatible) upgrade Wifi card for the laptop. I'm interested in going for Intel 7260 or 3160 but not sure whether these combo cards would work.CPU: Core i3-350MCurrent OS: Windows 10 64bit(build 1903)RAM: 8gbSSD: BX500 480gb. I'm sure Intel 7260 or 3160 would have driver support for Windows 10 even though i have read many people having connectivity issues in win 10. And, i prefer to use an internal wifi card since this laptop only has USB 2.0 ports.I have attached the pics of my current wlan card which is a Dell DW1520 (Broadcom BCM94322HMS chipset).As you can see it has 2 antennas (grey and black).
Any Half-Height mini PCI-E cards that work for macOS Sierra and Windows 10? I have an HP Pavilion dv6-7030ee. My current Broadcom BCM94313HMGBL doesn't have a driver for Windows 10, so i'm getting weak signal on Windows 10, so i'm planning to change it. Attached is my wifi card View attachment 211633 View attachment 211634. Apr 22, 2020 This is a Windows 7 version for the Broadcom Bluetooth driver. This driver was last updated in and is still the current driver if you have a Broadcom Bluetooth device in your computer. You may need full size braket to screw up the card. See details for description of any imperfections. This was the last driver which was released for it.
So i hope it should work with dual-band AC wifi cardsI was wondering, if i should stick with a Broadcom 802.11ac card rather than going an Intel card since i have no idea what all brands are in Dell's whitelist. AR9462 if you have doubt with Intel cardOops.
Not an 802.11ac card though.Broadcom has a mini PCIe 802.11ac card that's affordableBluetooth does not necessarily will work according to this. Important Notice: Please must check and confirm your computer's motherboard whether open USB bus before purchase, because this card is going Bluetooth USB bus, if the motherboard does not open the USB bus, then it's unable to use Bluetooth function, also in the device manager cannot identify the new USB Bluetooth hardware.
By reading an old post on the reddit I found the solution (Thx MysticalOS from Reddit). The problem is that sometimes the vendor ID on the Bluetooth is Broadcom and sometimes it's apple and even valid drivers may not work simply because vendor ID doesn't match even if hardware actually is a match. The solution is simply manually to install the drivers.Download the drivers from MacOsDownloading drivers on MacOs computer is quite easy:1.
All you need to do is place the git-completion.bash file in your user home bin directory and place the following in you.profile or.bashprofile file: export PATH='$HOME/bin:$PATH'source /bin/git-completion.bashPS1='u@h w$(gitps1 ' (%s)')$ 'What this does is make sure that your local bin is in the PATH and the source command gets things going. Git completion.bash. Then of course the PS1 change puts the currently checked out branch in the prompt.So, no MacPort install to then install a the 'completion' version of GIT (especially irritating if you already have it installed). Annoyingly this has been broken yet again. This time its the git folks with version 1.7.12-1.
Launch Boot Camp Assistant, then open the Boot Camp Assistant application2. Select Action on the Menu Bar.3. Select Download Windows Support Software4. Select location to save the drivers (WindowsSupport folder will be created at this location). Different MacBooks may download different versions of Windows Support Software (mine was 6969). To check the version open WindowsSupport 6969BootCampBootCamp.xml and look for this tag Download the drivers from WindowsTo download drivers from on Windows computer, you can use Brigadier.
After the download WindowsSupport folder containing drivers will appear in the selected location.Add driver to the systemRun WindowsSupportBootCampDriversBroadcomBroadcomBluetooth64.exe (probably similar procedure will work for WiFi, so you could also run BroadcomWirelessUDMx64.exe to add drivers to the system)Install the driver1. Open Device Manager2.
Right-click on the device (Bluetooth USB Host Controller)3. Update the driver4. Browse my computer for driver software5. Let me pick from a list.6.
Select Broadcom, Select Blutonium BCM2035 Bluetooth 2.4 GHz Single Chip Transceiver8. Ignore update driver warning and click Yes9. Not sure which drivers are proper as I tried two different cards and each of them has failed me in some way (usually working on macos but the problem with windows). Finally, I decided to buy 3rd one - a proper card.It was not cheap, however, I totally forgot about the issue and no more problems with Bluetooth or WiFi.
If you want to go for dual boot win/macos I would advise against using these 'cheap cards' (mainly because of windows drivers problem)One thing that is worth mention is that this OSX card has it's own Bluetooth stack, so you can use you Bluetooth mouse and keyboard in the bios and share paired devices across MacOs and Win (you need to pair on both systems but it will be working fine). However, with the cheap cards which do not have own Bluetooth stack you can't use keyboard and mouse n the bios and you need some extra hassle to share bluetooth (paring) keys between operating systems each time you add new device otherwise device paired on win will stop working on macos and vice-versa.