Linux driver for Dell 1397 / KW770 wireless card?

[Hadaka]

ok, please post the output of..

lsmod
rfkill list
cat /etc/network/interfaces

thanks.

[riverguy99]

I removed "thunderbird-globalmenu" and re-installed
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

This computer is now on our wired LAN so I unplugged it, rebooted, and nada. No wireless shows up.

[Hadaka]

ok,, what does thunderbird-global menu have to do
with this? Please post the items i requested if you
want me to continue to help you.
thanks.

[riverguy99]

I removed "thunderbird-globalmenu" and re-installed
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

This computer is now on our wired LAN so I unplugged it, rebooted, and nada. No wireless shows up.

[riverguy99]

Hadaka, my apologies. I started this thread with you on a different computer. When I was able to get the computer that this is all about online through a wired LAN, I continued on that one. On that one, it went like this, and this is where the “ thunderbird-globalmenu” came from. I guess this doesn't work going back and forth between two computers? If you would (please) continue to work with me on this, can you go back to the other thread (below), since then I will be on subject computer?

You:
from a wired connection to the internet please do..
Code:
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

Me:
I ran it once and then lost the email back to the computer I'm working on, I ran it the second time and got this:

lilah@lilah-Studio-1535:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
[sudo] password for lilah:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-lpphy-installer is already the newest version.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
thunderbird-globalmenu
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 284 not upgraded.
lilah@lilah-Studio-1535:~$


And that's the last I heard from you on that computer.

[mörgæs]

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 284 not upgraded.

Your computer is in a really bad shape.
Before going further with wifi I suggest running

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

from a wired connection. After that a reboot.

[robindebonnecoeur]

from a wired connection to the internet please do..

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

For the edification of others -- well, to help out those like me sitting here trying to get an older Dell Inspiron 11z with a Broadcom BCM4312 802.11 b/g LP.PHY wifi device to work -- just wanted to thank you, Hadaka, as I followed your advice after installing Linux Mint 64-bit 17 (Qiana) and not seeing wifi at all until I ran the above command.

Apparently the lpphy bit has been deprecated or something, but Terminal kindly gave me suggestions on how modify the command to:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

and after a reboot the little Dell saw and connected to wifi, no dramas.

Thank you again!!