Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell 1395 wireless card not working.

[bond17_007]

Hi,
I just got a Dell inspiron 1525 win Dell (Broadcom) 1395 mini wireless card.

I took out vista and installed ubuntu (YAYYY!!) First off, my wireless card was not getting detected. Under Hardware Drivers, the proprietary driver was checked but it said "Not in Use".

I then connected via wired connection and was able to get connected. I applied the all the ubuntu updates. After that my wireless card appeared working.

Now under Hardware Drivers, the proprietary driver is checked and is "IN USE".
When I click on the icon I do see all the wireless connection around. But when I try connecting to my WPA enabled home network. It just fails.

I see the one green bulb go off but no luck.
I changed the WPA KEY on my router and rebooted. But still no luck
on the side I have another dell from work using XP, that connects fine but my inspiron is having hard time.

Can you please help me resolve this issue.

Thank you,

[Barronmore]

I'm having the exact same issues. I've even tried it with the Dell Install ISO and I can't get wireless (havn't been able to update yet becuase i'm at work so I don't know if that will fix it). I'll i know is i'm really annoyed at Dell right now becuase i bought this machine with the sole perpose of using linux on it.

Can anyone help us out here?

[zorkerz]

Have either of you found a solution to this? My friend just installed 8.10 on an inspiron 1525 and is having wireless troubles.

[superprash2003]

have you tried via hardware drivers? http://www.prash-babu.com/2008/11/how-to-configure-broadcom-wireless-in.html

[zorkerz]

It appears I jumped the gun a little bit. My friend had not updated after a fresh install of intrepid and also found two drivers in hardware drivers. I feel pretty confident that after updating and trying the drivers in hardware drivers wireless will work fine. Thanks for the response.