In fact Intel published this security information here.

there are new drivers available here.

I think you can use them instead of waiting until Dell lets you download them. Or are Dells drivers in any kind changed to fit the Inspiron notebooks?
Thomas

as far as I can tell, dell doesn't alter the intel drivers. most of us have always just used what's on intel's site. i'd recommend everyone do that. they're usually always newer.

the only time I've seen an OEM with newer drivers was IBM when they hosted a beta version of the 9 series drivers that solved a disconnect problem. Intel would give you the same drivers if you emailed them -- they just didn't host them directly.

So yeah, use the intel drivers.

You first!

I apologize,

I'm on Proset v 8.0.0 and device driver 8.0.12.12000

I'll have to upgrade Proset to v 10.5.0.0 and drivers to 9.04.17

I was hoping someone else would do it first and let us know how it went.

Capt

me first what? i've always used the intel drivers for the pro2200BG in my 5100. Only time I used OEM drivers were when I used IBMs before I learned that intel would email out the beta versions if you asked,

if they don't work out for you it's not a hard process to revert ... especially if you're just updating the drivers and not using/installing ProSet.

i think it will go fine for you. i haven't used proset in sometime but the upgrades were seamless when i did (minus one version with a bug where I had to uninstall the current first).

these days i just use 7-zip to extract the folder with the drivers and upgrade without using the installer or worrying about proset.

Intel does recommend using the OEM drivers over Intel's. Though considering Dell seems to lag behind by months WRT drivers it is probably best to install Intel's drivers now.

All I can say to Dell is hurry up and release you versions.

ATI recommends the same ... and i promise it's generally a bad idea to listen to either of them :)

I'm sure dell will get them up eventually. I'm equally sure they won't have changed anything important.

is it true that the driver files are rather on the large side, or have I got that wrong? I read somewhere that they are over 100 MB which for me would be a rather large download.

The new file is 130MB which is significantly larger than previous releases.

This is likely for several reasons:

1) The size always grows with newer versions it seems -- small upward trend

2) in an attempt to create a single package, intel has merged the seperate downloads for the 2200bg and 2915ABG with the newer 3945ABG.

3) They now support more operating systems with the same package -- notably x64 which would likely require a near doubling in file size.

Just FYI, the driver folder itself (for all operating systems) is only ~22MB uncompressed -- so you can tell that most of the room is going to various implementations of ProSet and the documentation.