Wifi Problem with Dell Inspiron Laptop

[ChessMasterJoe]

Nope. Nothing different. Oh Joy! lol

[ChessMasterJoe]

Hi, the fist link is to ONLY download the 32bit .deb file, dont issue the commands
on that page.
The second link is the how to open the .deb file and the commands you SHOULD
enter.

I'll give that a try. Thanks.

Give me a minute

[ChessMasterJoe]

Alright, I followed those steps to the letter and still got the same error.

"cd Desktop
sudo dpkg -i wireless*.deb"

Everything seemed to be working fine until I got an error message that said "The System has encountered a problem". A few seconds later, a crash report window popped up that said...

"Sorry, a problem occurred while installing software.
Package: wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms"

When I clicked "Show details I was met with another crash report"

(About to throw computer at the wall) haha

[squakie]

Here's a thread where they got the 4365 working. Pay particular attention to the following, but someone will need to "translate" part of this to ubuntu as I don't know how to convert arch instructions to ubuntu:


kurvaDRMMemberRegistered: 2012-08-12Posts: 4
Re: [SOLVED] Drivers for Broadcom 4365 WiFi module (Dell Vostro 3560)

Brothers in arms! the solution to your peril is nigh!
with the pointers provided by Endres I compiled the following lines that should make the appropriate deb and install it.
First drop to super user to make things more stright forward.
(i know it is not really elegant.. but hey giving us a machine without the appropriate drivers is also a bit wonky..)
sudo -i
than get the .deb provided by b3niup:
wget http://semprefidelis.pl/wireless-bcm...lle1_amd64.deb
extract the deb package,
ar xv wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms_6.20.55.19~bdcom0602.0400.1000.0400-0somerville1_amd64.deb
extract the sources from data.tar.gz
tar -xzvf data.tar.gz;rm data.tar.gz
make the changes suggested by Endres:
sed 's/ndo_set_multicast_list/ndo_set_rx_mode/g' usr/src/wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms-6.20.55.19~bdcom0602.0400.1000.0400/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c > tmpf;
mv tmpf usr/src/wireless-bcm43142-oneiric-dkms-6.20.55.19~bdcom0602.0400.1000.0400/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
create new dat.tar.gz
tar -czvf data.tar.gz usr/
repack it with an appropriate name
ar -r kurva.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
and finally install it:
dpkg -i kurva.deb
hope this helps you guys. i guess you have to redo this every time a new kernel version comes out.. but hey at least it is a workable workaround..
let me know if it worked out for u guys!

[Hadaka]

Thanks Squackie, once we get the .deb file loaded correctly, there are only
about 3 commands to get it going. If this doesnt work we will take a look at your link.

thanks

[ChessMasterJoe]

I realize this is an idiot request, but after having read those links, I'm more confused than ever. Can someone translate that into something a I could understand? Don't get me wrong, I understand the basics of what's going on, but I'm still mostly ignorant.

[Hadaka]

ok, no problem,let's clear some files then take this ONE command at a time.
first we are going to send the .deb file you downloaded..to trash
i would first like to verify you did down load them.

ls Downloads

copy and past the out put

cd Desktop

ls

# thats lowercase L

rfkill list

copy and paste the output

relax..this will al be painless....pleasepost the outputs of the above commands
and No messing with the Fn/F2 keys

thanks

[ChessMasterJoe]

Thank you guys so much for helping! This is a fantastic forum.

Pressing the FN+f2 Key was one of the first things I did to unblovk everything. When the problem began, everything on rfkill list was blocked. After pressing the keys, it was unblocked.

After fixing this problem, if I somehow pressed the keys again, would I have to go through this entire fix, or would I just need to press them again?

Here's the results from everything you ask.


bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~$ ls Downloads
frostwire-5.3.9.all.deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_amd64 (1).deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_amd64.deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_i386 (1).deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_i386.deb

bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~$ cd Desktop
bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$

bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$ ls
0.jpg Tournament.odt
frostwire.desktop wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_i386 (1).deb
gparted.desktop

bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

[Hadaka]

ok...
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_amd64 (1).deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_amd64.deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_i386 (1).deb
wireless-bcm43142-dkms-6.20.55.19_i386.deb

and the same file in Desktop we will delete and start fresh

click the left launcher bar
click the home folder (looks like a house)
click the Desktop folder...left side.... then
rightclick the wireles bcm .deb files folders and send them to trash
click the Download folder
right click ALL wireless-bc,43143-dkms-6.20.55.19_xx.deb files
and send them to trash.
then..close those pages.

please post

arch

and
the same commands in the last post to verify they have been cleared

thanks...it gets easy from here..it is important we do ONE thing at a time
and again NO Fn/F2

[ChessMasterJoe]

I did everything you ask. Here are the results.

I'm extremely thankful that you're walking me through this. Would it be too much trouble to explain exactly what's going on because I would really enjoy the learning experience.

Thanks.


bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~$ ls Downloads
frostwire-5.3.9.all.deb
bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~$ cd Desktop
bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$ ls
0.jpg frostwire.desktop gparted.desktop Tournament.odt
bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$ rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
bigjoey@bigjoey-Inspiron-5720:~/Desktop$

When I typed "arch" into terminal it said "i686" (Without the quotes of course.)

Thanks again.