Wireless does not work after 11.10 install on Dell Latitide D630

[azpartners]

Wireless did not work after 11.04 update, did fresh install of 11.10 and it did not work. Wireless card is bcm43xx. Installed proprietary STA driver, blacklisted both bcma and brcmsmac per your forum, still does not work. I have not seen any other fixes specific to 11.10.

[wildmanne39]

Hi please post the results of:

cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

lsmod

here by clicking on new reply and click # and paste the information between the brackets.
Thank you

[azpartners]

azpartners@azpartners-Latitude-D630:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release; uname -a
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"
Linux azpartners-Latitude-D630 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

azpartners@azpartners-Latitude-D630:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -ia2 net
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01f9]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
Kernel modules: wl, ssb

azpartners@azpartners-Latitude-D630:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
rfcomm 38408 0
bnep 17923 2
bluetooth 148839 10 rfcomm,bnep
parport_pc 32114 0
ppdev 12849 0
binfmt_misc 17292 1
joydev 17393 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 60049 1
snd_hda_intel 24262 2
snd_hda_codec 91754 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13276 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80468 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
dell_wmi 12601 0
snd_rawmidi 25241 1 snd_seq_midi
sparse_keymap 13658 1 dell_wmi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
dell_laptop 13519 0
snd_seq 51567 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
dcdbas 14098 1 dell_laptop
snd_timer 28932 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14172 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
wl 2646601 0
pcmcia 39822 0
nouveau 663211 4
yenta_socket 27428 0
snd 55902 13 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_se q_device
pcmcia_rsrc 18367 1 yenta_socket
ttm 65224 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 32889 1 nouveau
psmouse 73673 0
lib80211 14570 1 wl
pcmcia_core 21511 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,pcmcia_rsrc
drm 192226 6 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
serio_raw 12990 0
i2c_algo_bit 13199 1 nouveau
mxm_wmi 12859 1 nouveau
wmi 18744 2 dell_wmi,mxm_wmi
video 18908 1 nouveau
soundcore 12600 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 14115 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 17455 0
parport 40930 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
firewire_ohci 35854 0
firewire_core 56937 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
tg3 132972 0

[wildmanne39]

Hi, please try this:

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

Then

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

Then unplug wired connection and reboot.
Thank you

[azpartners]

Wildmanne39,

Many thanks, that worked perfectly!

Carl

[wildmanne39]

Hi, your welcome! glad I could help, would you please go to the top of the page and mark this thread solved by clicking on thread tools. Thank you so much.

[Vivek_Rangabhashyam]

I am facing this same problem with my latitude d630.... I'm on ubuntu 13.04... tried the code but had no joy... Please help...

[wildmanne39]

Hi, copy and paste this command in the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) please:

 wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script

It will download a script and create a file named wireless-info.tar.gz or netinfo.txt in your home folder with wireless information so we can see the condition of your wireless at this time and the Mac address, WPA key and WEP key are removed for your security, then reply back, click on the paper clip and attach the wireless-info.tar.gz or netinfo.txt file as a zip file.

If you do not have ethernet either then follow the directions at this link for running the script without internet.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12350385
Thanks