Vostro 1500 wireless driver deactivates after restart

[Ebtoulson]

hey I was just wondering if anyone knows how to fix this. Ever since I upgraded to 8.10 my wireless is deactivated upon start up it works fine if i go into hardware drivers and activate it but as soon as i restart its deactivates again.

Thanks for your help.

[adult swim]

what driver are you using for your card and did you ever have to follow any tutorials to get it to work?

[Ebtoulson]

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the delay, was home for thanksgiving.

I'm using the broadcom b43 wireless driver...um as far as a tutorial I did a long time ago so I don't remember where/what it was. Under windows wireless drivers it say I'm using bcmwl5.

[adult swim]

post the output of cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

[Ebtoulson]

# This file lists those modules which we don't want to be loaded by
# alias expansion, usually so some other driver will be loaded for the
# device instead.

# evbug is a debug tool that should be loaded explicitly
blacklist evbug

# these drivers are very simple, the HID drivers are usually preferred
blacklist usbmouse
blacklist usbkbd

# replaced by e100
blacklist eepro100

# replaced by tulip
blacklist de4x5

# causes no end of confusion by creating unexpected network interfaces
blacklist eth1394

# snd_intel8x0m can interfere with snd_intel8x0, doesn't seem to support much
# hardware on its own (Ubuntu bug #2011, #6810)
blacklist snd_intel8x0m

# Conflicts with dvb driver (which is better for handling this device)
blacklist snd_aw2

# causes failure to suspend on HP compaq nc6000 (Ubuntu: #10306)
blacklist i2c_i801

# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54

# replaced by b43 and ssb.


# most apps now use garmin usb driver directly (Ubuntu: #114565)
blacklist garmin_gps

# replaced by asus-laptop (Ubuntu: #184721)
blacklist asus_acpi

# low-quality, just noise when being used for sound playback, causes
# hangs at desktop session start (Ubuntu: #246969)
blacklist snd_pcsp

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
blacklist bcm43xx

[adult swim]

there is your problem, probably some leftover blacklisted things from a tutorial you have followed before, two of them being the driver you are wanting to use. you need to press alt+F2 and run gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist at the end you can delete all of these blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
blacklist bcm43xx
but add this one back
blacklist bcm43xx
close and save the file and your wireless should start after booting.

[Ebtoulson]

Hmm that didn't seem to work. I saved then rebooted and it was still disabled. Opening back up the hardware drivers it shows the gray circle beside broadcom b43 wireless driver and when I click activate it says "this driver was just disabled, but is still in use".

[adult swim]

does it turn on when you run
sudo modprobe b43

[Ebtoulson]

yes it does