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Skrip
November 12th, 2009, 05:35 AM
Hello, I have Installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop DELL XPS 1530 and have problem with my wireless... any know about this problem??
JBAlaska
November 12th, 2009, 05:46 AM
Are you trying to connect to 2.4GHz(B/G) or 5GHz(N)? There seems to be a issue with 9.10 and the Intel 4965 @ 5GHz. Try connecting to 2.4GHz and see if that helps.
Skrip
November 12th, 2009, 11:03 AM
The problem is that the WIFI seems not working at all, because it does not find mine and other connection...
Skrip
November 13th, 2009, 07:44 AM
any solution to this problem?
bobcollard
November 14th, 2009, 09:15 PM
The problem is that the WIFI seems not working at all, because it does not find mine and other connection...

Check your driver by going to menu/applications/system/hardware drivers and see if the drivers there are installed. You may find a choice of two, I don't know the brand of card in your computer, mine is a Broadcom in my Dell 1545. I had to reinstall the driver because the different system wiped out the old one.
Skrip
November 15th, 2009, 05:59 AM
Well i have tried to go to Hardware Drivers but there it dont find anything dont know why.... even drivers for nvidia as it used to do at previous versions of ubuntu..
bobcollard
November 15th, 2009, 08:08 AM
Well i have tried to go to Hardware Drivers but there it dont find anything dont know why.... even drivers for nvidia as it used to do at previous versions of ubuntu..
You might try wicd. It is another Linux network manager. Get it through the synaptic Package Manager. Some people have had good luck with that. I'm out of suggestions.
jeb800e
November 15th, 2009, 08:10 AM
Get the NDISwrapper packages from Synaptic. Make sure you check "ndiswrapper-common" and "ndisgtk" or something like that. Selecting these will most likely automatically select a few other packages. Thats okay, it needs those extra packages to run.

Once installed, go to System < Administration < Windows Wireless Drivers. Follow the on-screen instructions
life2short1971
November 20th, 2009, 05:47 PM
try physically removing the card and reinstalling it
Skrip
November 22nd, 2009, 06:38 AM
Ok Thanks Guys i could not resolve the problem so i uninstalled it...
ublintu
November 22nd, 2009, 06:55 AM
Do you have broadcom wireless? If yes, maybe you can try this (the first post): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288865
I had the same problem with broadcom and this solved it.