RabbitWho
December 1st, 2014, 05:30 PM
Oh hi
I am guessing from reading this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2188265 That I need a driver. Also i seem to be getting some kind of a message on start up saying i need drivers and to go to a website, but it starts up so quickly I don't have time to read what it says.
I don't have an ethernet cable. We have a wireless router. I have no way of borrowing someone else's internet or anything. Telling me to buy a cable, as 3 people have, is not helpful because it is not possible.
Is it possible to download the drivers I need from a different computer and install them using a USB?
I've a dell inspiron 1545
If not I guess I'll have to make a bootable ubuntu usb and replace lubuntu with that, then install lubuntu over it. Internet always worked with Ubuntu.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Edit: more info.
following instructions from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1061710
my network controller (hand typed, hopefully no herrors) is:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
I am guessing from reading this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2188265 That I need a driver. Also i seem to be getting some kind of a message on start up saying i need drivers and to go to a website, but it starts up so quickly I don't have time to read what it says.
I don't have an ethernet cable. We have a wireless router. I have no way of borrowing someone else's internet or anything. Telling me to buy a cable, as 3 people have, is not helpful because it is not possible.
Is it possible to download the drivers I need from a different computer and install them using a USB?
I've a dell inspiron 1545
If not I guess I'll have to make a bootable ubuntu usb and replace lubuntu with that, then install lubuntu over it. Internet always worked with Ubuntu.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Edit: more info.
following instructions from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1061710
my network controller (hand typed, hopefully no herrors) is:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)