Making GPS to work on Dell Mini 9

Here are 7 steps that you can follow to get the GPS to work on Dell Mini 9:

1. Open the Device Manager and de-install ALL “Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Broadband MiniCard” entries. (This includes entries under “Modems”, “Network Adapters”, “Ports” and “Universal Serial Bus controllers”!)
2. Download THE LATEST DELL DRIVERS (A07) and install them.
3. Repeat step 1, then step 2(the install part ) and step 1 again (YES, JUST DO IT!) and restart ur computer. Now wait until all the devices have been found and installed. Check in the Device Manager (there should be no components left that require attention (with yellow marks) – if yes, reinstall the driver package one more time). Make sure u have a device called “Dell Wireless 5530 HSPA Mobile Broadband Minicard GPS Port (COM[?])” under “PORTS”.
4. Download the Dell Wireless Manager here: LINK and install the application. Once installed, this will control ur broadband connection from now on as a replacement for the Vodafone Software that came with the Laptop. Once installed, open the application and go to “View”, “GPS”. Select “GPS ON” – u should be receiving a GPS Raw Stream in the lower part of the window.
5. Download EarthBridge and Google Earth and install both.
6. Start ur GPS (c step 4) and then start EarthBridge. In EarthBridge, go to “Preferences”, select the GPS Port (u can find the port number on the Dell Wireless Manager – GPS-page). Configure EarthBridge to ur needs (like open Google Earth automatically and so on…).
7. Move to an area with clear view of the sky (it will not work inside). Hit the “Connect to GPS Device”-Button in the EarthBridge window and start GoogleEarth

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credit: Thanks to MrJ at mydellmini forum