wireless on Dell Latitude D800

[rdiaztushman]

Hello all!

New installation of Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude D800. Installation went smoothly but now I can't get the wireless to connect to my router. It connected 45 minutes ago while I was running Windows XP, but now I've wiped Windows off my computer (intentially)

Here's the output from my terminal:

*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0b:db:9b:49:b1
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.86 duplex=full firmware=5705-v3.11 ip=192.168.1.2 latency=32 link=yes mingnt=64 module=tg3 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32 module=ssb
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:90:4b:2f:9b:94
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Ayuthia]

Hello all!

New installation of Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Latitude D800. Installation went smoothly but now I can't get the wireless to connect to my router. It connected 45 minutes ago while I was running Windows XP, but now I've wiped Windows off my computer (intentially)

Here's the output from my terminal:



Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

You could try the firmware first. Your card might be recognized in System->Administration->Hardware Drivers. Just enable the Broadcom card. If it is not there, open up the Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

It will ask you if you want to have it find the firmware for you. Just say yes and it will install it for you.

[rdiaztushman]

Thanks so much for the quick reply. Here's the error message I got after running the code you said to run:

$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package b43-fwcutter

Thoughts?

Thanks again for your help - I hate to be such a pain.

[Ayuthia]

Thanks so much for the quick reply. Here's the error message I got after running the code you said to run:



Thoughts?

Thanks again for your help - I hate to be such a pain.

I am guessing that you have a working internet connection right now in Ubuntu. If that is the case, have you ran any updates? If not, please type:

sudo apt-get update

and it should update from the repositories. Once it does that, you should be able to install it.

[rdiaztushman]

Cheers to you, Ayuthia. The update followed by your initial magic code did the trick.

Thanks!

BTW, where can I find a useful wiki/document that describes exactly what all these words (sudo, apt-get, fwcutter) mean?

Thanks again, especially for being so prompt so late at night.

[EXCiD3]

Heres the wiki page on Sudo and root: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo
This explains aptitude/apt-get and the repositories: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto

Great place to get started on Ubuntu: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/ Explains LOTS of stuff

[Ayuthia]

Cheers to you, Ayuthia. The update followed by your initial magic code did the trick.

Thanks!

BTW, where can I find a useful wiki/document that describes exactly what all these words (sudo, apt-get, fwcutter) mean?

Thanks again, especially for being so prompt so late at night.

The fwcutter stands for firmware cutter. The Linux Broadcom drivers need a portion of the firmware to make it work so that is why it is called fwcutter.

By the way, you don't necessarily need to use apt-get. You can also use Synaptic. I tend to use the Terminal a lot...

[CoyoteMoss]

And how is it that you get updates if you can't connect to internet?

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