Dell Latitude D430

**rithwik** · January 15th, 2012

i have a Dell Latitude D430 and i hav ubuntu 11.04 installed in it.i am not able to get the network drivers to work at all.i have tried restricted drivers and everything else.any suggestions?

Rithwik

**mikewhatever** · January 15th, 2012

Make sure to enable the recommended restricted driver, and reboot. It should work after that. If you aren't, for some reason, not able to do it, specify why not.

**rithwik** · January 17th, 2012

thanks,

but whenever i click on the network icon and under wireles it says firmware missing.

rithwik

**carl4926** · January 17th, 2012

Post result of

Code:

lspci -nnk

**mudguts** · January 20th, 2012

That's odd as I have a D430 and it picked up all the drivers on a 11.04 install 32bit. I then upgraded to 11.10 and it's all good.

**sousuke** · January 22nd, 2012

You can try installing this:

firmware-b43-installer

and then reboot.

It worked on my Latitude D430 running lubuntu 11.10

**rithwik** · January 25th, 2012

thanx it worked.life with 11.04..

**nclay** · March 29th, 2012

I just loaded Ubuntu 11.10 on a D430 laptop and could not get the wireless driver to work until I loaded the firmware-b43. But once I reboot the system the wireless driver disappears again even though it shows that B-43 is still installed.

configuration: latency=0

any thoughts?

**daz23** · April 27th, 2012

I've had to do the following to get the wireless to work on a Dell d430 or Dell d830 for the last 3 or 4 Ubuntu releases.

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

**crodler** · May 4th, 2012

After upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 i get ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)
error. HD works well when starting WinXP partition and also when mounting linux partitions under rescuecd livecd dont give any error running several hours.
When starting 12.04 sysatem gets frozen just after starting gui.