Dell Inspiron 1520 Limited Wireless Range

[Soundler]

Hey,

After installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my Inspiron 1520 laptop another issue came up. The Ubuntu network manager seems to be working properly. However, when I tried connecting to a wireless network at my uni - the manager didn't detect the uni's router. So I went to get some help from the uni's network support. Success ! I got it working. Although, when I came to uni again.. my laptop didn't detect the wireless network... again. I think it's a range problem because when I got connected to wireless for the first time the router was quite close ( although then I tried to go to different locations to increase the distance between the router and my laptop it still worked fine ).

Any ideas ? Thank you in advance ):P

BTW, luckily, I'm also using Windows XP and I nefer faced this issue. All wireless networks are always detected.

[leedsdevil]

hello if you dig around in Dells website you can find Dells version of Ubuntu. it is different than Ubuntu it has been modded for things like drivers for your wireless. As far as Xp well it was a great windows Os all of my Pcs run Ubutu ecept for my gaming rig. if i can find the time to put y game on it then ill dump all windows in my house . hope this helped you

[grikdog]

Broadcom STA Wireless driver (proprietary, non-Ubuntu) works on my Dell Inspiron 1525 with 9.04. I think that's the Dell driver, maybe (?) -- don't remember where I found it.