Wireless support on Dell Inspiron 1440.

[Vinu Raj V]

Hi,
I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my Dell Inspiron 1440 laptop. How can I install the necessary wifi drivers for my machine.

Thanks in advance.

[Scallyph]

You might wanna start finding out what kind of chipset you're wireless card uses.

[JBAlaska]

Your laptop uses the Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g.

To get your wireless working:
Put the LiveCD in your drive and go to: System, Administration, Software sources and check the box below "Installable from CDROM". Then open a term and do:

sudo apt-get update

Then:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

Now reboot and select the BroadcomSTA driver. in System, Administration, Hardware Drivers You may have to reboot again to get the driver working.