Fun and games with Dell WWAN drivers

First post!

If you own a Dell 5520 WWAN card, you may have found that the x64 drivers will refuse to install on any laptop for which the card has not been "approved" by Dell. The error message is usually "Not a Dell laptop" or something like that. This is a bit annoying, because there's no real reason it shouldn't work in any machine that has the right expansion slot and antennae.

I actually contacted Dell about this problem, and they helpfully suggested that I buy a brand new card. Googling turned up nothing. I wasn't about to fork out for a new card when this one should work perfectly.

So I ended up trying to mess with the installer myself. In the end, I managed to grab the unpacked installation files (before the setup program automagically deleted them), hack the MSI using Orca to bypass the laptop check, and get everything installed and working. All I did was search for AbortInstallation and delete every instance of it that I found. Yeah, nasty, but works!

I hope someone else finds this useful: simply unpack this ZIP file containing the modified x64 drivers installer and run the MSI file. Sorry, no x86 version.

Enjoy!