No Wifi on Dell netbook

[stanhalen]

When I go to network connections wifi does not come up for a choice.
It just lists wired connections.
I am on a dell inspiron 910.
also has xfce 4

[stanhalen]

when i type the command

lshw -C network

i get
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:f0200000-f0203fff

[chili555]

Can you walk the Dell over to the router, hook up a wired connection and then go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and activate your Broadcom drivers?

[stanhalen]

Can you walk the Dell over to the router, hook up a wired connection and then go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and activate your Broadcom drivers?

ok i activated the driver.
is that it? because wireless options are still not coming up.

[alexdelprogramador]

description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation

Hello stanhalen

Im new in that forum, but not as well on wireless under linux


Ok, I think I can help you.

you have an broadcom pci wireless card with a BCM4312 chip.

On start, It will work on Unbuntu debian linux without troubles,but....

can you type this:

iwconfig

and also this command, because Im afraid you dint up the device.

ifconfig

you can have troubles with the card because it couldn't be up when you try to connect to a wireless ap.


write as what happend

Wating your response

[stanhalen]

Hello stanhalen

Im new in that forum, but not as well on wireless under linux


Ok, I think I can help you.

you have an broadcom pci wireless card with a BCM4312 chip.

On start, It will work on Unbuntu debian linux without troubles,but....

can you type this:



and also this command, because Im afraid you dint up the device.


you can have troubles with the card because it couldn't be up when you try to connect to a wireless ap.


write as what happend

Wating your response

laptop@laptop-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:840 (840.0 B) TX bytes:840 (840.0 B)

[bkratz]

How about the contents of

rfkill list

?

[stanhalen]

How about the contents of

rfkill list

?

rkill list?

[bkratz]

rfkill list

rfkill list

[stanhalen]

laptop@laptop-laptop:~$ rfkill list
0: compal-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: compal-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no