Dell D610 wifi driver install but cannot connect

[djavet]

You're a king! That's work perfectly.
I post just after rebooting twice to be sure from my wifi.

Thank you so much! I appreciate more than I can write...
I can't send you my homebrew beers, because it forbidden to send this without a lot of paper in US, but I will rise some for you!

Dom

[chili555]

Chili,

I was wondering if the blacklist file that wl creates might be causing a problem. The file is blacklist-bcm43.conf and it has caused me problems before.
The contents of the file

# Warning: This file is autogenerated by bcmwl. All changes to this file will be lost.
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb
blacklist bcm43xx

I seem to remember having to remove it before getting a clean install of b43. However I am sure the code you gave the OP should work too.

Just wondering?

Whoa! You are exactly right.

Dom, please do:

sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf

Now does it work after a reboot?

[chili555]

You're a king! That's work perfectly.
I post just after rebooting twice to be sure from my wifi.

Thank you so much! I appreciate more than I can write...
I can't send you my homebrew beers, because it forbidden to send this without a lot of paper in US, but I will rise some for you!

Dom

Glad it's working! I will raise a cool one in your honor today, too!!!

[djavet]

Me too!

Cheers!
Dom

[john89521]

Chili – you have been a huge help!!! This D610 wifi issue has been a nightmare. Thank you so much for your time spent on this!

John

[life in color]

@Chili555 Thank you 5 trillion I've been searching hopelessly everywhere for a solution and you were the only one who helped you deserve a gold trophy

[LanceRooke]

Would somebody please help me get this accomplished on my Dell Inspiron 1501? I'm having virtually the same problem. The internal wifi card is BCM4311. The drivers are installed yet I can not get it to work.

[chili555]

Would somebody please help me get this accomplished on my Dell Inspiron 1501? I'm having virtually the same problem. The internal wifi card is BCM4311. The drivers are installed yet I can not get it to work.

Let's make sure we know what we're dealing with. Please open a terminal and run and post:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
lsmod | grep -e b43 -e wl -e ndis
dmesg | grep -e b43 -e wl -e ndis

Thanks.