Dell Latitude D610 - FN+F2 will not enable wireless - help!

[lnxusr351]

Hi folks !!! For someone that still have problem with wireless drivers on any kind of dell latitude or inspiron, the only thing to to do is install firmware b43 installer. It is simple just tape it on synaptic manager or ubuntu software center search. That's all!!!!
youpankeys wrote

Thank you very much for this.... I have had a real trying time to get the wireless up on here, and bingo, works fantastic.

[rhce2be]

Hi folks !!! For someone that still have problem with wireless drivers on any kind of dell latitude or inspiron, the only thing to to do is install firmware b43 installer. It is simple just tape it on synaptic manager or ubuntu software center search. That's all!!!!
youpankeys wrote

I'm still having this problem with the wireless driver on a Dell Lat. D610...I've installed the b43* software, in fact I have all packages installed below...

$ dpkg --list *b43*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-===============================================
ii b43-fwcutter 1:014-9 Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
rc firmware-b43-installer 1:014-9 Installer package for firmware for the b43 driver
ii firmware-b43-lpphy-ins 1:014-9 Installer package for firmware for the b43 driver (LP-PHY ve
ii firmware-b43legacy-ins 1:014-9 Installer package for firmware for the b43legacy driver


can anyone please tell me how to solve this...? It's something I'm working on for my company...any help would be greatly appreciated

[ericv222]

I had a similar problem with my Dell laptop. I could see the broadcom card in dmesg. The light would not turn on. Pushing Fn+F2 would not help. If I rebooted into windows, I could turn the wifi (and light) on. Then it would stay on when I rebooted back into linux (centos).

This is what I did to fix:
rfkill list (will show if the card has hard or soft blocks on it, or both)
My wifi was blocked
rfkill unblock all (which did not do anything initially)
Then I hit Fn+F2 (that unblocked the hard block)
Then rfkill unblock all a second time
That did the trick. The little wifi light came on and I was connected via wifi again.

Hope that works for you

- Eric

ericv@iserverwatch.com

[Curious65]

just got a used d610 with a wiped HDD. installed Ubuntu 10.10 and thanks to the folks here i got my wifi to work. it was more a case of not seeing the password protected router due to password issues but the posts here helped point me on the right direction.

so thanks.