12.04 Wirelesss connections unavailable DELL Inspiron 1440

[sad saad says]

I have read everything online and followed all the code that everyone has advised yet nothing seems to work.

My wireless connections were working until I updated several months ago. I tried updating all the code thats shown online yet nothing makes a difference.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[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 text file 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 and attach the netinfo.txt file.
Thanks

[sad saad says]

here you go. the files attached. thanks for the help

[wildmanne39]

Hi, please do:

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

Then:

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

Then reboot.
Thanks

[sad saad says]

Unfortunately, I ran the code and it seems not to make a difference. heres the terminal let me know if this helps, looks like everything ran correctly:

saadster@saadster-Inspiron-1440:~$ sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
[sudo] password for saadster:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package broadcom-sta-common is not installed, so not removed
Package broadcom-sta-source is not installed, so not removed
Package firmware-b43-installer is not installed, so not removed
Package firmware-b43legacy-installer is not installed, so not removed
Package bcmwl-kernel-source is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
b43-fwcutter* firmware-b43-lpphy-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 110 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 181831 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firmware-b43-lpphy-installer ...
Deleting old extracted firmware...
Purging configuration files for firmware-b43-lpphy-installer ...
Removing b43-fwcutter ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
saadster@saadster-Inspiron-1440:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/22.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 110 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package b43-fwcutter.
(Reading database ... 181820 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a015-9_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.
Unpacking firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (from .../firmware-b43-lpphy-installer_1%3a015-9_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:015-9) ...
Setting up firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (1:015-9) ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
--2012-11-20 13:16:29-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources...8.10.4.tar.bz2
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org (downloads.openwrt.org)... 78.24.191.177
Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org (downloads.openwrt.org)|78.24.191.177|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5986780 (5.7M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2'

100%[======================================>] 5,986,780 125K/s in 46s

2012-11-20 13:17:16 (126 KB/s) - `broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2' saved [5986780/5986780]

broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_nomimo
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_apsta_1chipG
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_wl_sdstd
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_shared
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/diffupdate.sh
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap_1chipG
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_ap_sdstd
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl.mk
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wltunable_lx_router.h
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_sta
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl_default
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wltunable_lx_router_1chipG.h
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wl_hnd
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_sta_1chipG
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_lx_router_apsta
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/config/wlconfig_apdef
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/README
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_sta.o
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl.o
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_ap.o
broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux/wl_apsta.o
This file is recognised as:
filename : wl_apsta.o
version : 478.104
MD5 : bb8537e3204a1ea5903fe3e66b5e2763
Extracting b43/ucode5.fw
Extracting b43/pcm5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
Extracting b43/ucode9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals9.fw
Extracting b43/a0g0initvals9.fw
Extracting b43/ucode11.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/n0absinitvals11.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals11.fw
Extracting b43/ucode13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw
Extracting b43/ucode14.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals14.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals14.fw
Extracting b43/ucode15.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals15.fw
Extracting b43/ucode16.fw
Extracting b43/n0bsinitvals16.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/n0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lp0initvals16.fw
Extracting b43/sslpn0bsinitvals16.fw
Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals16.fw
saadster@saadster-Inspiron-1440:~$

[wildmanne39]

Hi, that looks right, please delete the textinfo file in your home folder and run the wireless script again and post the new textinfo file so we can see where your wireless is at now.
Thanks

[sad saad says]

Here you are, let me know if this helps. sorry about the time delay

[wildmanne39]

Hi, please do:

echo "blacklist dell_laptop " | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Make sure your wireless is turned on with the switch or fn keys because it says it is off.
Reboot.
Thanks

[sad saad says]

Hi, please do:
sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Hey this code seems to put my terminal in an infinite loop of some sort. Nothing processes after i run this code. I have played with my fn keys before ill try again, they seem unresponsive

[sad saad says]

hey wildman you were correct I got it fixed thanks a lot it was killed off, for some reason in my wireless networks it still shows disconnected but I have a connection now, thanks.