Let me know if you encounter any problems. I hope that my explanations were not too confusing.
Run the different installers in older to install the different drivers.Ĩ) Reboot your MacBook in Windows, now with working sound, microphone, MagicMouse (if you have one) and trackpad. Unpack again each of the files above with 7-zip, each one to a different directory.ħ) In each one of the directories that you just created you will find an installer: DPInst.exe.
Inside you will find several files including:ĪudioBin - New driver with working audio and microphone for Macs with CirrusLogic chipsets (the new 2009 MacBook Pro)īinary.MultiTouchMouse_Bin – Magic Mouse driversīinary.MultiTP_Bin – Improved multi-touch track pad driversīinary.TrackPad_Bin – improved regular touchpad drivers The BootCamp 2.2 installation file is packaged using 7-zipĥ) You will find several files in the folder including:Įxtract again with 7-zip the appropriate file according to your Windows version (32 or 64 bits)Ħ) You will find a folder named BootCamp24ToBootCamp223 We will have to manually unpack BootCamp 2.2 and extract the individual drivers.Ģ) Download the BootCamp 2.2 installation file at: This sounds great, but installing BootCamp 2.2 over BootCamp 3.0 won’t work very well. A maintenance release of BootCamp 2 (running on Leopard) with upgraded sound, trackpad and Magic Mouse drivers for laptops. In November 2009 Apple released BootCamp 2.2. Solution 2 (a bit more complicated but with additional rewards) I didn’t test personally the Windows XP drivers, but I have been told that they work fine.ģ) Double click on the appropriate exe file (according to your operating system) and complete the installation.Ĥ) Reboot the MacBook Pro and enjoy Windows with sound Even though Windows 7 is not officially supported by apple. The Windows Vista drivers will work perfectly on Windows 7.
Solution 1 (the easy solution, quick and dirty)įew folks at Sussex County technical School packaged a set of working drivers into an installer. If you are new to Windows or you are a bit scared by the length of solution 2, go wit solution 1. With solution 2 you will also get updated drivers for the new Magic Mouse and the trackpad. Solution 2 sound drivers are slightly more up to date.
I will assume here that you have a partition with a flavour of Windows and BootCamp 3.0 drivers.
I will post the full description with screen-shots on my blog tomorrow. I am pretty sure that if a magazine like MacWorld, PCWorld or PC Magazine wrote a story about windows support on Mac. I think the only solution is to go out in the open, and write everywhere (blogs, forum, magazines, newsletters.) how Apple is letting its users down. Honestly it would be rather easy to fix the issue, but Apple has probably no intention to improve the situation (for obvious commercial reasons).Ĭomplaining on this forum is rather useless since here we all have already purchased our Mac, and outside the Mac community this place has very low visibility. and I am not holding my breath waiting for Apple to come with a fix.
On average we get a BootCamp upgrade every second year. In particular the latest line of MacBook Pro have seriously impaired functionalities for all versions of Windows. There are zillions of people screaming on these forums about the poor driver support for Windows.