No Wifi on Dell netbook

[stanhalen]

yup yup.
I am about to just put normal ubuntu on to this.

[bkratz]

yup yup.
I am about to just put normal ubuntu on to this.

Well normal Ubuntu has this driver on the Live CD, not sure about yours. You could check by following the directions in this post

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...72&postcount=5

[oleink]

• hey I've got an inspiron too. I actually wrote a thing on getting wireless on a dell inspiron. Its not too hard. You need to plug into your router though. Plug in use the wired connection to download wine from the software center. Then go to System->Administration->Hardware Drivers and install STA wireless driver. it covers your card!!!!!!!!!!

[wojox]

If it can't find it run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

[stanhalen]

Well normal Ubuntu has this driver on the Live CD, not sure about yours. You could check by following the directions in this post

http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...72&postcount=5

I was going to download the live cd.

[stanhalen]

If it can't find it run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

thanks but that did not work as well.

[bkratz]

thanks but that did not work as well.

One more try, how about going to synaptic package manager( system>>administration>>synaptic package manager) and press reload and just search for it, then select it and install from there.

[stanhalen]

One more try, how about going to synaptic package manager( system>>administration>>synaptic package manager) and press reload and just search for it, then select it and install from there.

ok i searched for
bcmwl but all I got was bcmwl-modaliases
so I reinstalled it. i don't think that did anything.

[bkratz]

ok i searched for
bcmwl but all I got was bcmwl-modaliases
so I reinstalled it. i don't think that did anything.

Sorry, I looked there too, I must have been wrong or it is in a different repository. I don't know. Well I do know this will work if you are willing to try

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Read the readme before you decide.

[alexdelprogramador]

you did have the ethernet plugged in right?

ok, on oldest posts, i've seen that he wrote:

laptop@laptop-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:d0:d7:c1
inet addr:192.168.0.104 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:fed0:d7c1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2622803 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:431468 (431.4 KB)
Interrupt:27

It says to me that is connected with wired interface called eth0 and hast 192.168.0.104 ip

so, just only type:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

and then:

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

or

Package Manager (System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager). Click the
Reload button in the upper left corner of Synaptic to refresh your index then
search for and reinstall the package named bcmwl-kernel-source.

Its all

tell us what happend